User:Laras13

Interests

• Watching movies may very well be one of my favorite things to do. I especially love horror movies even though I have to watch them from under a blanket.
• TV shows help me study. I don't know how or why but I need them to get my work done.
• I love sports (everything except fitness really) and I can spend a whole day playing soccer or volleyball etc. I'm decent at most sports but the ones that I am really good at are the weirder ones like kitesurfing, windsurfing and horse-back riding.
• I love food. I love trying new things and learning about different flavors.
• Sour Patch Kids are the source of my energy. They're like coffee for me.
• I love music and I like discovering new songs. I have a pretty big music library and I'm always trying to expand it.
• I'm a shopaholic. Shopping makes me happy.

Random Facts

• Dr. Seuss and Roald Dahl never fail to entertain me.
• I believe that you should always step out of your comfort zone and try new things. Being spontaneous is fun, that's where we getmost of the stories that we tell people.
• Blue is the best color.
• I'm Turkish.
• I think good friends are better than anything else you can have.

Grand Challenges for Engineering

Provide Energy from Fusion

Sustainable Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Raises Hope for Ultimate Green Energy, Ian Sample, The Guardian, created 12 February 2014, accessed 14 September 2014 (Provide Energy from Fusion)

Matlab Demonstrations

My favorite demonstration was the Loma Prieta Earthquake. This one was my favorite because it is a real world application of Matlab. We can visualize and analyze real data from earthquakes. I also liked this demonstration because we learn a lot about plotting. We learn the different ways to plot and we also learn about manipulating the data, like setting intervals for graphs, zooming in on it and creating 2-D and 3-D graphs.