Well, this update is a bit overdue, especially since it’s my last post here. I suppose that leaves me with two things to do; first, to tell you what I’ve been up to, and second, to make my final comments on the whole ThinkSwiss program.
Previously on ThinkSwiss: THE ADVENTURE BLOG:
Hiking! Thrills! Fondue!
Well, this time I [...]
Dear blog Readers,
Dear Scholars,
I am the new Academic Associate, successor of Stefanie, at the Office of Science, Technology and Higher Education in Washington D.C.
I am responsible for the brainstorm blog! I will also update our ThinkSwiss Facebook page and use our ThinkSwiss Twitter account!
Thank you for participating, for sharing your stories about Switzerland and above all… for making [...]
Overall impression – Did your stay meet your expectations?
Looking back, I came in with this dreamy imagination of what my experience would be, the places I would go, and the things I would do; but the experience far exceeded it. Yes, there were hardships and difficulties but there were also amazing journeys. On one [...]
Good things often come to an end sooner than we imagine. Sounds cliched but that is exactly how I felt about the end of Summer of 2011. No prizes for guessing that it was spent in Switzerland, thanks to a wonderful opportunity created by Academy of Journalism and Media at the [...]
Now that I am back home in sunny California, it is time to reflect on my three months in Zurich. My experience in Switzerland was generally positive. Of course, there are ups and downs to moving abroad for a few months, but the work was interesting and helped me establish good connections for the future [...]
It’s been a while since I arrived back in the states from my summer spent doing research into robotic fabrication at the chair of Gramazio & Kohler at the ETH Zurich. I had so much fun and learned so much while in Switzerland, and brought back a heap of ideas and memories with me. [...]
Another weekend adventure! This time, my friends invited me hiking. So far this fall there hasn’t been much precipitation, so despite the cold, the mountains are still pretty free of snow. Saturday dawned foggy and dim in Zürich, but we made our way to the town of Attinghausen in Canton Uri, from which we took [...]
On Saturday I had the chance to visit Lucerne, another city with lots of history and plenty of interesting sights. Before I talk about that, though, I wanted to mention the fun evening I had the weekend before, eating fondue! With (one) actual Swiss person! My labmates invited me, two couples, and another guy from [...]
My not-so-puzzling puzzler at the end of my blog post last week was a clue to my side trip this weekend; I went to Essen, Germany for the gigantic board game convention, Spiel 2011. I’m unabashedly a huge board game fan; my purchases at the fair were probably not the greatest ideas, though I’m enjoying [...]
Hi everyone!
I guess I didn’t say this before, but at work, I’m hoping to prove a theoretical convergence rate result for a version of the algorithm I’ve been working with for the last year. On that front, there’s not much exciting to report; I’m still plugging away at bounding expressions with other expressions and manipulating [...]
