grad school
UBC’s focus on sustainability
One of my favorite things about going to UBC is the overall campus wide focus on issues of sustainability. The significant focus on mass transit accessibility and sustainability in the curriculum has been very impressive. UBC still has a long way to go though. As witnessed by the recent battle between the UBC Farm and [...]
what I’ve been working on at UBC: electrochromism
You might wonder what I’ve been working on at UBC recently. In general I’m working on nanofibrous materials, transparent conductors and photovoltaics with a few other little things interspersed. Yes, I’ve learned a lot over the past few months. I recently put together a presentation and a paper on electrochromic materials and I thought this [...]
how grad school is like kindergarten
Oh PhD Comics, you know exactly what grad school (at least in the sciences) is like,
I’m not alone: many leaving to US and going to school in Canada for good reasons
Apparently many other college students are leaving the United States and going to Canada. The Canadian Embassy reports that as many as 10,000 American students are being educated in Canada this year, a three-fold increase from a decade ago. I’m going to graduate school in Canada for several main reasons: I can work at a [...]
just one of the reasons I’m going to UBC
from a recent email about Graduate Student Orientation, As a sustainable campus, we encourage you to bike, walk, bus or carpool to orientation activities.
the greatest email ever received (by me)
For those of you that may remember, a few weeks ago I received a rejection email from Stanford University to my dismay. Fortunately, an hour later Stanford emailed me back to say that I had been sent this message in error and that a decision had not yet been made on my admission for this [...]
