Retired professors & lemon trees
No, the two don’t have anything to do with each other. Went to EE 214 (analog circuits) again this morning, met with my advisor Dr. Wooley to go over some classes, then went to my first EE 202 class, which is Medical Electronics. Dr. Thompson came to Stanford in 1960…he retired 14 years ago but teaches this class every autumn. He has a lot of stories to tell and isn’t afraid to talk about politics. The course is primarily a biology course, and while interesting…I wonder if there is a better use of my time. I’m looking around for a different class just in case I decide to drop it.
I sat in on a Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar intro session today. Every week they bring in a speaker to give a talk. Speakers come from start-ups, corporate successes, VCs, journalists, authors, professors, etc. They will also offer 10 students to have dinner with a speaker. Though the MS&E 472 students have preference in the selection, I would love to go to dinner with someone like Michael Arrington.
Did a two hour hw session with Nader and Doug at Meyer Library, then came home around 8pm. Made chana masala and Luke joined in too. I mention the lemon trees because I realized I needed some lemon juice but haven’t bought it yet. Then I remembered the fruit trees that grow around the Rains buildings. We have lemon trees, limes, oranges, even some nuts I think. Luke went walking around and sure enough came across one of them. A few jumps and grabs we had a few. The fruit of our labor (see what I did there?): perfect scent of lemon. It worked great.
Anyway, there is a lecture at the Graduate School of Business (GSB) I want to attend sneak into tomorrow, and its starts at 8am.
Donny Katz Said,
October 2, 2007 @ 9:03 am
What did Dr. Wooley have to say about the plan you mapped out on the 21st? You had seemed pretty excited to show him.
Saket Said,
October 2, 2007 @ 11:21 pm
It was a really informal meeting actually. Later this semester (ie, < Dec 7) I have to get him to sign a ‘formal’ plan of work for my courses. After looking at my course plan, Wooley actually thought he saw a mistake in the course bulletin, and he spent like 5 minutes trying to track down a professor to ask him a question about course pre-reqs. Tried his office, tried his other office, tried his cell, etc. Dr. Wooley is also chair of the department, so he’s ultra busy.