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me this semester

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🍃sunday reset 🍑 procrastinated errands & fixing my sleep hygiene

good morning! i've been on a bit of a manic swing lately that's driving me nuts because i'm not sleeping, i'm anxious/excited, and my mind is running on fumes while my body is just go, go, go! i'm going to try to fix it before i go back to work later this week because i'm definitely going to swing right back when i start traveling at the top of next week 🙃 so here's the plan for today:

🧘‍♀️ meditation

🦵 physiotherapy exercises

✒️ work on my sci-fi novel

🇯🇵 japanese lesson

💻 get my laptop fixed idk if y'all remember, but i've been procrastinating this since last year 🤡

🛒 grocery run

🎟️ buy all the last-minute tickets for our trip that were supposed to be bought the week i got sick, then the week work got crazy and now it's the week before we leave 🤡

🧳 continue packing

📵 get offline an hour before bed

📒 journal + plan my day off tomorrow

💌: also want to watch a podcast episode of NPR Wild Card with my sister today at some point, but not sure yet where it's going to fit in 🤷‍♀️

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Scientific practice can never exist in a vacuum and must always work in conjunction with everyday life. Rosalind Franklin was best known for her role in pioneering the use of X-ray diffraction, which later aided her discovery of “the secret of life” — the structure of DNA. 

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04.15.2025 — A semi-productive day with lots of worries and barely tea.

📚 Did two lectures, notes, and a practice quiz today. Not much but it��s progress. We’re learning about casual speech, 반말.

☕️ Tried 루이보스 보리차… and it’s not for me. Big rooibos fan, but the barley tea…

💭 Very confused and conflicted if I should actually go study in Korea this summer. It’s a lot of reasons, but I think I’m mostly scared to go far, alone, and in a place I know I’d be constantly stressed in. Will I actually learn more compared to studying here? Will it be a waste of money and time off work?… I’m also just such a homebody, and prefer slow, quiet days. The imposter syndrome I feel is a whole other thing. Either way, I really must decide soon. I heard from someone that, in this situation, you’ll regret it either way, either for not going or for going and it not working out how you thought it would. But at least with the latter, you tried and learned something (about yourself).

🎧 Gus Dapperton - First Aid

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Keep going for yourself

Don't let the past years go to waste. Its never too late to start , loosing all your years of hard work is harder than not starting.

stay kind to yourself and get ready to succeed. Remember to push yourself to the best of your abilities because if you don't do it no one will do it for you

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Today's vibe: Reading, studying & eating strawberry cake 🍰

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Take advantage of all training opportunities that your company offers.

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Colourful houses and secondhand bookstores have been the theme of my travels recently.

Washington DC will forever be my favourite city in the states. But New Orleans has a special place in my heart now too!

I’m very tired and out socialized by the werk long conference in NOLA, but so so grateful that being in grad school allows me to discover new cities for free and that I have such an amazing supervisor who encourages exploring the cities and taking time for ourselves!

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from Corrector Yui.

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being successful in your fav subject feels so validating

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what's it like being an electrical engineer? what does the job entail? is it fun?

That's not an easy question, because electrical engineers are almost everywhere, in every tech company, so the jobs vary. I can only tell you, what it looks like from my own experience. I work in a gas power company and my job is basically to find solutions for already existing problems, which occur as a result of failures of the equipment or human errors. It's interesting, mostly because it's different every time, there's no such thing as two similar problems. It may be a problem with a circuit breaker, cable trays, surge protection, whatever electrical equipment in a gas power plant you can imagine. What's challenging in this job, but also what makes it interesting is, that it requires very broad knowledge, sometimes not only electrical, but also about the turbine itself. At my previous job, I was a design engineer. I designed modular inverter and rectifier systems. At first, it seemed interesting, but after some time it got kind of repetitive, because the projects were very similar to each other. There's not so much you can change in an inverter/rectifier system. It's a standard and the only things that change from project to project are protection devices, wires, terminals, etc., generally minor changes. That was the main reason, why I started looking for a new job. The other reason was, that I had previous experience with power plants and wanted to come back to it, but in a different way. Power electronics wasn't really my cup of tea. Before the inverters and rectifiers, I had a boring, mostly Excel-related job in a power plant, but that was just some meaningless paperwork, not even worth mentioning. My first job was an internship, also in a power plant and that was my first experience with gas turbines. During the internship I did relatively simple tasks, like drawing circuit diagrams or reviewing operating instruction manuals for new equipment, but I was still a student at that time, completely new to the industry, so it was a valuable experience and I learned a lot. Is it fun? As for my current job, I'd say it is, because every problem is different and because gas turbines are interesting for me in general. Is it challenging? Sometimes it is, but that's a good thing, because if something is not challenging, it's boring. It's good for ambitious people, who are willing to learn a lot, bad for someone, who wants to just come to work, do the bare minimum for 8 hours and leave. I'm really happy that I chose to study electrical engineering, wouldn't change it for anything else. It's not easy and never will be, but It's the best decision I could have made.

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(タプタプお腹 | キュルZ さんのマンガ | ツイコミ(仮)から)

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I look at this one uh from time to time -

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"wow ur so good at math" ah ha but you see. you dont ever get good at math. you stay bad, but now youre bad at harder math

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EE/Engineering/Content creating Free Open-Source Tools

Open source tools I have found so far:

Analog and Digital

1-LT Spice (schematic capture)

2-KiCAD (PCB design)

3-Sage (similar to MATLAB)

4-X circuit (for high quality schematic drawings)

5-Logisim (to design and simulate logic circuits)

6-gEDA (PCB layout, schematic capture, verilog)

7-qucas (PCB layout, schematic capture, VHDL, Verilog, digital and analog)

Embedded Systems

8-NASM (assembler and disassembler for x86 Intel architecture)

9-FASM (assembler for IA-32 and x86 -64 computer architecture)

10-GNU Binutls (assemblers/compilers for microcontrollers and DSP processors)

11-RTOS for desktop and embedded systems

12-SDCC GCC SDCC compiler for 8051 microcontroller

Text Editing

13-Latex

Multimedia Software 14-lightworks (free video editor)

15-GNU Image manipulation programme (graphic design)

16-open office draw (better and cheaper than corel draw)

17-Visio and smart draw (for flow charts, circuits and network diagrams)

18-Blender (open source 3D animation tool)

software websites

Free Software Downloads and Reviews for Windows, Android, Mac, and iOS – CNET Download

Softpedia - Free Downloads Encyclopedia