We don’t feel like eating can goods and frozen dinner tonight. So, we decided to call Brother’s Burger delivery instead. I think I was really that hungry because I absent-mindedly ordered Big Brother instead of Brother’s Burger. I was complaining that I was already full yet I haven’t finished my burger. It was only when I was thirsty that I realized I ordered the wrong burger. Well, anyway, that’s life.
Genica's...Our professor said that LAN games started with counterstrike. I believe him even though I don’t play any LAN games. I mentioned this because last October 16, we did our own LAN game in class. We connected three computers in a switch and we tried playing counterstrike. It was nice because we were learning as we were playing. We were able to learn that it was not difficult to connect all the computers in a computer shop. The computers should have been four unfortunately there was one unit which has some technical problems. We could’ve played two-on-two that time. It was okay anyway because we have a small class and we don’t need so many computer units. I am wishing that we can perform more practical applications in that class.
This is my classmate playing counter strike on widescreen.
I woke up early and attended my class. We didn’t use up all the time in my first class so we were dismissed early. In my second class, we discussed about the guidelines in making a research paper. We still have a lot of time left before our class is over so we decided to play “silent dodge ball.” It was really fun because it’s a ball game but we were not allowed to make any noise. Controlling our shouting and excitement was a challenge. We didn’t have a lesson in my next class. Instead we helped connecting local area networking (LAN) cables for the programming competition on the following day. Measuring the length of the wires was easier than cutting and crimping because some of the tools were not sharp anymore. By the way, crimping is placing the two plastic ends of a LAN cable. That two plastic ends were also called as RJ45. The most exciting part was crimping because we have to make sure that all the wires in the LAN cable was properly connected. May last class was about Safety. Coincidentally, we were discussing about safety when we heard the news about what happened at G2. It was really sad. Our professor again reminded us to always be safe.
This evening was also the first of evening of the NSTP camp. We are hoping for a fun, exciting, and educational camp.
This was how the Media Lab looked like when we were placing LAN cables.
Last October 15, 2007, the Rotaract Club had Medical Mission with the Rotary Club of Laguna Technopark at
The serving is wider than me... :)
Nowadays, many youths are not in school. Some causes of this are lack of motivation, financial problems, and other additional factor. In addition to these, their living environment can also be a cause. In fact, if these youth are with people with no thought of going to school or having a bright future, they can be more prone to being included in the out of school youth.
Being an out of school youth is not the last part of the situation. Furthermore, it is just a phase in their lives. Many graduates are unemployed, therefore it is more likely that those who didn’t finished schooling will also be unemployed. Nevertheless, we can’t still say that out of school youth have no bright future. In fact, they may be luckier to get a decent job. However, they may encounter hard time because of their lack of experience and training. For instance, they work with those professionals and expect them to do more than their capabilities. They can easily be fired if the employer thinks that the employees are incapable.
Being an out of school youth is not an excuse for not doing well in life, therefore one must really strive hard to surpass some struggles. In addition, hard workers are well compensated in the future as long as they have goodness in their hearts.
Yesterday, I went out with my friends after class. They played billiards and ordered some beer. I only drank two bottles but I felt that my head was really heavy. In addition to that, I have to withdraw some money because my roommate was asking me to buy something. What makes my head worse was that there were so many barricades because of the construction. It was like a maze going to that ATM machine and getting out of there. There were also many people that I got bumped to. I think that was also the effect of alcohol.
After their game, we ate at the public market. It was still early that we decided to stay at Paseo for a while. We just chat and listened to the music at Guilly’s. We talked about so many things and before we knew it, it was almost nine in the evening. We decided to go home so we all went home. Hehehe…
We have fun last night. I think we will do that again soon.
My dinner... :)
(Using technology developed to construct microchips, engineers can now construct microscopic machinery (like the gears shown in this electron microscope image, dwarfed by a mite). Future generations of nano-machinery promise to be even smaller. Source: Sandia National Laboratories.)I have learned that nanotechnology was not that easy to explain. It was said that nanotechnology is very small. Its size is smaller than a nanometer. I’ve learned that nanotechnology is still in its infancy. Because during the mid-90’s, most engineers don’t think about small. They were thinking about big objects like big atomic bombs, big cars, and other big stuff. But there were other researchers who focus on making things smaller. Thus the invention of transistors and integrated circuits took place. But these small devices made the large devices. I’ve learned that during that time, electronics engineers were focusing on making things smaller and other engineers and scientists focus on smaller things. Those smaller things are atoms and molecules. They were studying how atoms are made and what’s the force that binds them together. They also understand how to combine atoms into molecules to produce useful things. Because of these, new studies were developed during the 80’s.
It was understood that nanotechnology was developed from the field of physics, chemistry, and electronics. There was this idea of making mechanical devices from atoms. But these resulting devices are bigger. Because the idea was to manipulate those atomic things.
There were these molecules that look like soccer balls. Scientists looked for practical use of these molecules. While they were searching for practical use of these molecules, other scientists discovered another thing. They invented this thing which can move atoms around. Because of these discoveries, new computers and software were developed for the scientists to stimulate and visualize chemical reactions of atoms and molecules. This is very helpful to them especially if they are dealing with complex molecules like DNA.
Genetic engineers were able to figure out ways on how to modify chemical reactions of DNA molecules and use them for scientific research. They were also able to replicate any DNA molecules they want to study. Because computers and other tools were available during the 90’s, they use DNA for construction of new chemicals and making tiny machines. There were able to make materials to interact with other materials and also attack diseases.
(Artist's rendition of the space elevator of the future. Source: IEEE Spectrum, Aug 2005)
As of now, the future of nanotechnology is not yet assured. But even so, engineers and scientists have a good vision about it. There was this thought that there will be long nanotubes to be used for space elevators. In the medical field nowadays, nanotechnologies can only detect diseased cancer cells for them to be easily targeted. But it is predicted that in the future, because of nanotechnology, nobody gets ill, gets old, or even die until they want to. There will be molecular machines that will be injected to us to repair unhealthy and aging cells. That means we will always have healthy cells.
Some researchers also believe that eventually they can assemble circuits atom by atom to create computer chips. The circuits in these chips will be much smaller and producing more power computers is possible. We can even upload and download our own personality into that computer.
Although many are optimistic about the nanotechnology, there are some researchers who evaluated the risk of this. Some say that there is a risk of allowing nanoparticles into the body. Others say that nanotechnology might get out of control that may lead to a great human disaster. There can be also a great competition of the bacteria, plants, and humans for natural resources.
The future of nanotechnology is still unsure. But whatever it is, the marvels of nanotechnology can come to life and downsides will be avoided if wisdom will be properly used.
