A Day In The Life

A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block 10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and I have accomplished more than the average MIT student does in an entire school day. How have I achieved this? It all started with my alarm at 0530. I might have woken my roommates, but it was early enough that Im sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few stumbles over my roommates chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity and on my bike, riding through the cold and wet January air. I rode across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch the Polish after their lunch break. After a few hours of inviting Eastern Europeans to the MIT Global Startup Workshop conference, I hopped back on my bike and headed to the Navy ROTC building. During IAP, I am working on a project to improve battalion communications through the installation of a web server. I worked for two hours before hurrying over to the Z-center to make an 11am Jiu Jitsu workout with the American Jiu Jitsu Club. Now it is noon time, and I have already worked for five hours, and squeezed in an hour-long workout. With the rest of my day, I will work in my UROP lab for a few hours and then do some coding for 6.370, a java programming competition also known as Battlecode. You might ask how this relates to Navy ROTC, or why I am participating in so many activities during a month that many students use as a break from classes and work. My achievements during IAP, and many of those during the semester, can be attributed to the skills I have learned as a midshipman in the ROTC program. The Navy stresses time management, planning, and pushing oneself to the limit. During my time in NROTC, I have learned how to budget my time efficiently and accomplish my goals, both in my navy life and my life at school. I have learned that getting an early start isnt always a bad thing, and that taking an hour out of the day to maintain a good level of physical activity can make me more productive. The Navy ROTC program at MIT also encourages midshipmen to participate in on- and off-campus activities. It is understood by the staff and other midshipmen that sometimes the best leadership training can come from applying the skills learned in ROTC to other activities, and it is because of this that the NROTC program doesnt overwhelm midshipmen with time commitments. While my Navy commitments do take a significant amount of time, they do not prevent me from taking advantage of the amazing opportunities in clubs and UROPs on campus. Navy ROTC at MIT is the best of both worlds: I have the endless opportunities provided by the MIT community, and I have a professional Navy atmosphere to prepare me for my future as an officer in the fleet. MIDN 3/c Robert Block is a sophomore at MIT in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. Feel free to contact him with questions about MIT or the Navy ROTC program via his email, reblock [at] mit [dot] edu. Post Tagged #ROTC A Day in the Life Given that it’s the day before Campus Preview Weekend and I have two papers to write and a problem set to start, it’s clearly the perfect opportunity to blog! I’ve wanted to write a “Day in the Life” entry for quite a while and today I finally remembered to pack my camera. I’ll preface this entry by saying that I don’t normally do this much networking or eat this much free food, but the opportunities exist (if I only had the time and could be in three places at once!) 7:45 AM: Woke up and immediately checked my email. 8:30 AM-9:10 AM: Walked to McCormick to meet my former pre-frosh and now (sorority) little sister, Minh ’10. The weather was gorgeous and we went to Sunny’s Diner (just up Mass Ave) for a good ole’ artery-clogging breakfast. Yum. 9:15 AM: Grabbed a cup of tea with Minh from the Lobby 7 coffee shop and ran into Ben and Amy. Even though they were running around, trying to get everything ready for you guys, they had time to stop and pose for (several) pictures. By the way, in their free time they model for ATT. 9:30-11 AM: Dynamics and Controls II Lecture. We reviewed a control theory called root locus. Doesn’t that sound exotic? 11 AM-11:05 AM: Stood in Killian Court and played with my camera’s panoramic setting, the result is below. 11:05 AM-11:55 AM: Finished my homework (which was due in two hours…) and checked my email about every five minutes. 12:00 PM-1:00 PM: Ate lunch with Dr. Ray Winquist, the Vice President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and a few other students. The lunch was organized by a biomedical mentoring program called BioMatrix, which I have been a part of since freshman year. Dr. Winquist talked about his experiences in industry and answered some of our questions about his career. 1:00 PM- 4:30 PM: Experimental Biology recitation and lab. For eight hours a week, about a hundred of us manipulate E. coli DNA, sequence genes, and purify proteins as part of this lab class (which is a requirement for biology majors and pre-meds.) The class also has a scientific writing component. 4:40 PM- 5:00 PM: Met with the writing tutor for my Ancient Rome class. She taught Introduction to Fiction when I took it last Fall, so we have known each other for a while and consequently, we mostly talked about Campus Preview Weekend (since she’s the housemaster of East Campus) =) 5:05 PM- 6:00 PM: Went to my UROP. I work in the BioInstrumentation Lab and I’m trying to write up the results of my research. I made some decent progress on the Discussion section of my paper… maybe the writers block is finally wearing off? 6:00 PM- 7:15 PM: Ate dinner with MIT alums and students at the Society for Women Engineer’s Meet the Professionals dinner. This semiannual event gives us the opportunity to meet alumni who have established careers in a variety of fields. At my table were about six students and an alum who now works at TransForm Pharmaceuticals. 7:25(ish) PM: Ran into Matt, who was just finally heading home, only to return tomorrow morning at 8 AM! CPW doesn’t run itself…and unfortunately I forgot to take his picture! 8:00 PM â€" 1:00AM(ish): Did a combination of things, including checking my email compulsively, psetting, and playing with Photoshop. This will probably continue for the rest of the night… hopefully closing Gmail will boost my productivity. Questions about life? CPW? Root locus? My sweet camera that takes panoramic pictures? Ask away. A Day in the Life Its 2am, Im up reading about plane crashes (more on my classes later), and a cool thing is happening on campus. Technique, MITs yearbook (and, relatedly, the photography/design club) is hosting A Day in the Life.   This is one day where students all over campus grad students working late in lab, people psetting, athletes, artists, awesome people with dart guns, whoever will take pictures as they go about their normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, Im not sure how old this project is (perhaps someone more enlightened will comment?) but ever since I stumbled upon it two years ago, I thought it was really neat ^_^ The day runs midnight to midnight, so if youd like to see photos from some of the early birds (well, night owls), take a look! And now, back to my regularly scheduled tooling* * except Im usually asleep by midnight A Day in the Life I really enjoyed  Anas recent post about a single day in her life, so I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it would be interesting to document my Thursday because I usually end up doing a bunch of things even though I dont have any classes. If you wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of the semester  and plan on doing a reflection sometime before finals! November 13th, 2014   8:30am first alarm (turned off) 8:45am second alarm (actually wake up) 9:17am get out of bed 9:27am realize Im probably running late (this is not an uncommon thing) 9:30am out the door, speed walking 9:38am miss the bus at 77 Mass Ave. 9:40am catch the bus at the next stop #nailedit Attempting to take a picture from my seat on the bus without looking too strange. 9:56am arrive in Harvard Square 10:01am arrive at L.A. Burdicks This particular hot chocolate excursion was to meet up and chat with Marjorie Liu (who Chel mentioned previously; Marjories the incredibly awesome instructor for 21W.758 aka. MIT.616). Im usually really bad at talking to professors, whether its in an academic context like office hours or running into them in the hallways. Most of the time its because I genuinely dont know what questions I would ask them, or the omnipresent fear of not being able to find any common ground. But this semester I switched majors into something I love (CMS) and am trying to push myself to do things that scare me, including trying to get to know new people. Marjories super approachable, kind, and down-to-earth and it turns out we have a lot in common, from nerdy interests to growing up near Seattle to being mixed-race. This is one of the first times Ive really felt like someone Ive met at MIT could be a mentor to me, since conversation flows so naturally and she gives such great advice and honest reassuranc e about pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. Im hoping to interview her about her experience teaching at MIT (and overall career/life, of course) for the blogs after the semesters over, so Ill write more about how lovely she is then! 12:30pm leave Burdicks and decide to walk to Central Square 12:35pm decide to take the T instead because its chilly 12:37pm MEET TOBY, A BEAGLE/BASSET HOUND MIX (and ask to pet him)   Creeper picture of Toby (left). I miss my beagle Taffy (right) so much and cant wait until Christmas break. 1:00pm arrive for meeting at Workbar I usually only go to Central for art supplies, so its fun to have another reason to visit. Every Thursday I have a check-in meeting with one of my UROP mentors, Flourish Klink (who Petey has blogged about  because shes amazing). Flourish was my CMS.100 professor during my freshman spring, I reconnected with her by crazy random happenstance (i.e. I wrote a post fangirling about the fact that one of my favorite professors was going to be on a panel at SDCC, which she then found) over Tumblr this summer, and now Im helping her out with the transmedia development plus some social media side projects for Season 3 of East Los High. Its really exciting to be able to participate in some of the behind-the-scenes meetings that go into writing and producing not only the TV show itself but also the online content (vlogs, extended scenes, school newspaper articles, etc.) that are released in tandem with the episodes. Not only am I learning a lot about how production companies operate, but Im also discovering what its like to work across time zones with a team that is mostly based in LA (so many Google Hangouts!) and to have my opinion valued even as an intern. 1:42pm walk back to campus 2:00pm arrive at Rinaldi (theater building) and work on set design homework       Were currently designing for the play Fetes de la Nuit as though it would be performed in Walker Memorial. 4:35pm Internet break! 5:00pm CMS colloquium Paul Levitz, in Conversation with Junot Diaz This was my first time actually going in the Media Lab (beyond the first floor). The rooms are so pretty! As a CMS major, I receive weekly emails about Thursday colloquiums in which the department or MIT invites guest speakers to talk about their research or careers or whatever is relevant. This week was Paul Levitz, best known for his long career with DC comics (ending as President Publisher) and as a current professor at Columbia. He actually came to speak directly to our class (comic script writing, with Marjorie) the next morning, so I got to hear quite a few stories and interesting insights into comics as an evolving art form/medium of communication/thing and his own personal and professional experiences with writing. So rather than going into immense detail and hastily scribbled down quotes now, I plan on writing a separate post just about the two back-to-back experiences. 7:00pm walk to the T 7:21pm arrive at Park street and decide to walk to Panera 7:30pm order and eat broccoli cheddar soup in a breadbowl #goodlifechoices 7:47pm walk to Suffolk University theater 8:05pm watch The Saint Plays We went to these plays as part of my Scenic Design (21M.733) class. They were very surreal. (I hope I was allowed to take this picture) 10:34pm walk to the T and back to MacGregor 11:03pm pick up package from desk 11:05pm discover gooey brownies in main lounge and decide to hang out 12:35am  head upstairs to my room to actually open the package   The poetry zine cover and a poem with some really cute embroidery.   Ive been following Alaska Gold on Tumblr for a while because she writes lovely poetry and prose that I relate to immensely; shes at about the same stage in life (at university, 19-20 years old, thinks way too deeply about the universe, etc.) even though were thousands of miles apart (she grew up in Spain, I believe). Around the beginning of October, she announced that she was going to be making and selling some poetry zines of her work and they looked absolutely beautiful! She hand-draws and embroiders images that reflect the poems you choose for your zine, and mine (like all of them, Im sure) turned out so lovely. Her project inspired me to keep building a portfolio of work that Im proud of until I can (maybe) do something similar! Mostly it was just a very pleasant surprise after a long, tiring day because I always love getting mail. 1:00am  watch Sleepy Hollow, etc. 3:00am  (ish) curl up in a blanket and sleep

Food Lion Swot Analysis Marketing Writing Assignment - 2475 Words

Food Lion Swot Analysis Marketing Writing Assignment (Essay Sample) Content: Food Lion Swot AnalysisStudents NameInstitution AffiliationIntroductionFood Lion wants to be the overall low-cost leader in the supermarket industry while still producing quality products and great customer service. Food Lions strategy is maintaining its low-cost provider by following three pillars growth, efficiency, and sustainability. Food Lion wants to continue to grow by expanding in current markets as well as enter new markets to meet customers needs. The private label brand of Food Lion My Essentials continues to grow and offer everyday products at a lower price. Food Lion wants to be as efficient as possible to reduce wastes and costs. The way they overview how they order, ship, stock, and sell products will help eliminate costs down the value chain to make products efficiently and affordable. Lastly, food lion wanted sustainability they wanted to develop ways to work differently and see how good a supermarket can be. By offering private label products, they c an increase revenues without compromising their strategy. Food Lions sustainability focused on rebuilding based off what customers said. Surveys and research were used to help collect data to reform this new strategy.Food Lion wants to make sure they remain profitable by making sure they earn their highest potential while still maintaining the low price. Food Lion has implemented a new strategy not only being the low-cost provider but by also delivering great customer service. They do not want to compromise the price of products and want to make shopping enjoyable for customers. The company is built for the long run and has just remolded all their stores as well. They are interested in what customers seek is most important in grocery stores and what Food Lion can do to make their experience an enjoyable one. Food Lion has a great internal business process which makes it easy to process, pack, and distribute to their stores with efficiency. Products are rarely out of stock at warehou ses because of the system Food Lion has in place to ensure that their shelves are full. They can send products to their other warehouses to ensure that all five warehouses have the appropriate products that they need for their stores.(Jobber,2001)StrengthsFood Lion has implemented a new strategy that is taught to employees to help customers make shopping easy, fast, and affordable. A survey taken by supermarket consumers found that being able to find what they want, finding it fast, and purchasing it at a low price is what was important to customers. Food Lion has 1,300 stores in the South East and Mid Atlantic to make shopping convenient and affordable. Food Lions low-cost provider strategy helps bring customers in while the great customer service keeps them coming back.WeaknessesFood Lion has a bad reputation for having low end perishable. They have recently changed to prepackaged meat as well as buying local produce. Food Lions has a high worker turnover ratio and has added emplo yee benefits to retain employees for longer. Having high ratio costs money to train and dress new employees.OpportunitiesFood Lion has a customer segmentation strategy that it implements in all of its stores. There are different departments so each one can focus on what is important and deliver what the customers need. Food Lion has remolded their stores to gain market share that they have lost from straying away from their overall lost cost provider. They have revamped their strategy to make sure they continue to be an overall low-cost provider. Offering their private brand increased sales and profitability as well as offering customers lower priced product from major brandsThreatsThe continuing trend of labor unions could eventually hurt Food Lion. As of right now, they have a no union policy, but laws could prohibit companies from enforcing this. Wal-Marts opening of a chain grocery store could potentially threaten their current market share. The threat of new entrants for the s upermarket industry is considered having an established company. The supermarket industry is also not very profitable and usually only make pennies for every product sold. The bargaining power of buyers is considered medium. Customers can shop at different supermarkets that can offer either the same or similar products that Food Lion has. Since Food Lion buys their products in bulk to lower costs and to offer customers the quality of products they want at a low price. Customers can switch to private brand labels, but for food lion, this would increase their sales for their private brand My Essentials. The threat of substitutes in the industry is medium. Depending on the economy customers may decide to grow their food.The bargaining power of suppliers is low in this industry. Companies want their products on the shelf and for some of these products depend on supermarkets to make sales. Since Food Lion has many locations as well, they buy products in bulk giving suppliers a good amoun t of business. Rivalry among existing competitors for food lion is high. Wal-mart is opening a line of grocery stores to compete in the industry. Other retail companies such as Target and K-mart selling retail merchandise as well as groceries will attract customers who want to get all their shopping done in one place. This makes it more convenient for customers and can reduce Food Lions profitability. As more companies decide to offer the same products as Food Lion rivalry continues to increase as Food Lion continues to improve ways to stay ahead of the competition and make them the low-cost leader.(Kotler, 2002)SOURCE SIMILARITY AND MARKET COMMONALITYHigh Market Commonality and High Resource SimilarityHarris Teeter and other supermarkets have the same resources and products. Both companies are high competitors and buy from the same suppliers and therefore have either the same or similar products on their shelves. The target markets are similar with a savings mentality for both groc ery chains.High Market Commonality and Low Resource SimilarityWal-mart has similar resource similarity since it does offer some similar products of Food Lion. They have a high market commonality because they offer low priced products. It is important to keep an eye on Wal-Mart because in the future they could move from this area to a High Market and High Resource similarity with the launching of their new grocery stores.Low Market Commonality and Low Resource SimilarityFood Lion and 7-11 have a low resource and low market commonality. They do not offer similar products and therefore do not have the same resources.Low Market Commonality and High Resource SimilarityFamily Dollar has a high resource similarity since they both offer many of the same products. The market commonality is low because Food Lion is supermarket while Family Dollar offers products that are cheaper and a more wide variety of products. Food Lion has products that are outside the country and has to monitor the tax es. If taxes rise, they can reduce their profits and can sometimes compromise their low-cost strategy. If products have restrictions or regulations such as cutting meat they have to follow procedures and rules which can cost time and money and reduce productivity and profits. If a global crisis consumers have less income to spend, and it changed buying habits. Ensuring the affordability of products is important as not to change the low-cost strategy. A high unemployment rate makes it difficult to hire quality associates that can deliver. Buying habits and gender influences the type of products that Food Lion offers. Since women usually do the grocery shopping offering a wider range of products that attract these customers will raise profits. Local communities play a role in Food Lion since they locate their stores usually in low income and low populated areas to attract their market. Technology grows fast a...

Essay on Enough Immigration - 1520 Words

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How To Make Violet or Purple Fire

Violet flames are very easy to make. All you do is sprinkle salt substitute on your fire. Salt substitute contains potassium chloride and potassium bitartrate. If you are familiar with the emission spectra from flame tests, youll recognize that potassium salts burn violet or purple. The color seems more of a blue-violet, but you can get a more reddish purple if you mix a little strontium from the red fire tutorial in with the salt substitute. Keep in mind that violet is not one of the colors your eyes see really well. The subtle glow of these flames can be completely overwhelmed by the colors from trace impurities. This means two things: Use as pure a fuel as you can. I used Heet fuel treatment, which is methanol. If you sprinkle the salt substitute on your wood-burning campfire, the flames will change color, but the color wont necessarily be violet.Use salt substitute and not lite salt. Lite salt is a mixture of normal table salt (sodium chloride) with potassium salts. The yellow from the sodium will overpower the violet from the potassium. Watch a video of this project.

Questions On The Prison Industrial Complex - 1510 Words

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â€Å"Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you’re in diapers, the next you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul † . We will write a custom essay sample on Laughing man or any similar topic only for you Order Now – from The Wonder Years In other words this quote means that in a blink of an eye you grow up but you will never forget the moments in time that define your life. In the short story The Laughing Man, by J. D. Salinger, the narrator is reminiscing about his childhood and the story his chief told him. Also in the poem Mandarine Oranges, by Katha Pollitt, he character remembers a time in her childhood. In both stories the narrator goes back to a time in there past that they won’t forget. in the laughing man, the narrator goes back toa place in his past where he grew up listening to a story from his chief about a child who was kidnapped and turned into a hideous creature. this creature is called the laughing man and if you look at his face you would faint and then die. the mans face had flesh-sealed nostrils and an enormous oral cavity for a mouth. as the story went on it ended with the laughing an dying and the story was never revisited again. hen the story was over billy walsh the youngest Comanche bursted into tears and the narrator’s knees were shaking. when he got off the bus he saw a red piece of tissue paper which reminded him of the man and this broke him down. he then went home and as told to go straight to bed. this story was one of the biggest parts of his childhood. in the poem Mandarine Oranges by Katha Pollitt, the narrator sees a symbol of her childhood while grocery shopping. while shopping the woman sees a can of andarine oranges and it takes her back to her years in high school. He states that she remembers how bored she was and how miserable she was. she says that the mandarine oranges were the schools form of bribery to make her play volleyball and eat lima beans. also she states that she wanted the oranges more then anything ever before because they held the essence of her youth. in both stories the narrators see a symbol that remind them of their past and how fast it has gone. the symbol in the Mandarine Oranges was the can of oranges and in The Laughing Man it was the strip of red tissue paper. he laughing man narrator remembers how great his youth was growing up while the mandarine oranges narrator remembers how horrible hers was and how one thing made it O. K.. in conclusion the two story connect in one way; they both talk about how childhood goes by fast. so cherish the moments you have even if they are bad ones because as you grow up you will realize that your youth has gone by way too fast and the memories you have will be with you forever. laughin g man By cschaef How to cite Laughing man, Papers