I realise I have forgotten most of the details of what I did before college started so I will start with college. For fresher week, we had ice breaking activities.
So, what do Imperial electrical engineers do for icebreaking? Well they build strange looking contraptions out of everyday stuff, of course.
For our year, we had to build a machine to hold a ping pong ball 15 seconds then launch it 3 meters into a paper bin. Materials given were a small box, 2 polo mint tubes, 6 elastic bands,2 pencils,2 paper cups, wire, string, a ruler and a ballon. And divided into 28 groups of 7, we were given this assingment on Wed, to be done on Friday.
After considerable discussion, many failed designs and lots of fake formulae written on the blackboard to confuse other teams we adopted a simple design of 'deep breath'(if you don'tlike long descriptions skip to the next paragraph) using the pencils stabbed into the box, with rubber bands wound round them to support the ruler which had the ping pong ball placed in a paper cup. The polo mints were held of the ground by the ballon. After15s, the ballon deflates, dropping, and thus so did the polo mints, causing one end of the ruler to be pulled down, pushing the ping pong ball out of the cup.
Really sorry for that, simplified as much as possible. Anyway, our group did well, with me as cordinator(but doing very little work) but failed to make top three, which was sad coz prizes were CHAMPAGNE and really expensive bottles too. Ah well, life goes on.
If you haven't fallen asleep, my humblest thanks.
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wow, i can believe your blog tagline is namedafter some soap drama.... but i glad u still retain your " Dr House" like demeanour.... well. UK is notorious for bad food and balmy weather... so suck it up. in words of Nelson from The Simpsons ' HA HA! but take care anyway. tata
Balmy is not the right word, I think. Not sure though.
Anyway, when you are in the land of the All Blacks where sheep outnumber humans, i shall return your sentiments.
hahaha
sarcasm sarcasm.
i hope you don't intend to leave your blog with two miserable posts, which is what vy appears to have done to his.:P
just kidding vy if you read this! update about your culinary skills, the hot chicks at imperial..ANYTHING!! YOU TOO! ARUN!
Well written article.
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