[PLUG-TALK] My Niece Lucy

Michael Rasmussen michael at jamhome.us
Thu Feb 17 01:02:18 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:22:58PM -0800, Aaron Burt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 03:32:06PM -0800, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > My niece Lucy: 
> >   Today we built a simple audio transmitter and receiver using LEDs
> >   without any carrier signal, so the audio frequency is transmitted
> >   directly... blah blah blah, any ways, after I sent a signal successfully
> >   ...
> > 
> > yeah, blah, blah, blah. Like everybody knows this.
> > The rest of the story is about how her lab partner is a bit of a dim bulb.
> 
> Go Lucy!  And hooray for her EE curriculum for having way cooler labs than I
> ever got to do.  Where's she going to school?  Is EE her major?

She's a freshman at Boston University.  I think the choice of majors is still
unsettled beyond generic engineering.  She was thinking of environmental, but
that seems to have fallen out of favor. 

> Just ran into a former EE/CS classmate on the bus the other night.  One of
> the brightest people I ever met*, and probably the kindest and most sociable
> person in my cohort.  She's working on embedded Linux at Intel now.

That's way cool.


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