User:Sem45
The Basics
I:
- am from Dublin, OH, a city near Columbus, but I lived in Houston, TX for 6 years growing up
- live in Alspaugh Dorm. Main Quad pride.
- currently plan on majoring in Biomedical Engineers (concentration: tissue engineering) with a minor in Visual Arts or English
- am a member of the women's novice rowing team, the women's club water polo team, and other yet-to-be-decided organizations
- swam and played soccer all my life, got into running last year, and want to learn how to kayak
- Insert job information here, when employment found
That answers the usual starter questions: Where are you from? Where do you live? What is your major? What do you do here at Duke? Do you play any sports?
Name Pronunciation
My name is difficult to mess up unless you try to complicate it. "Sarah" is pronounced exactly like it looks, Sar-ah, and Mayo is pronounced like the Mayo Clinic or Mayo-naise, May-o. Not Mai-o. In IPA it is sɛ́rə méo, if that helps.
Grand Challenges Article
I hope the graders don't get bored, linking to the same articles over and over again. This is bound to happen, of course, since Google can only supply so many results within the first half of the page.
Cognitive Computing Project Aims to Reverse-Engineer the Mind , Priya Ganapati , Condé Nast Digital , created 6 February 2009 , accessed 17 September 2011 (General)
Granted, it is two years old, but it is related to the Grand Challenge "Reverse engineering the brain", it was not within the top ten Google responses, and it has a video.
MATLAB Demos
After many attempts and many MATLAB crashes, everything finally worked for me today. It was worth all the effort. The tutorials were a nice review of what was discussed in lecture the first few classes, and they opened up a whole new set of possibilities within the MATLAB environment. My favorite demonstration was 3-D Drawing, in which the user manipulates a 2-D plane to create the outline of a vase, and MATLAB makes a 3-D image of the drawing. This combines two of my interests, engineering and art. I have done a decent amount of art to engineering, but I had never used engineering to design art before (unless you count perspective). It was a way to use MATLAB that I would not have come up with on my own without much more MATLAB experience. Others that I also enjoyed were the Loma Prieta Earthquake scenario and 3-D Surface Plots.
