the idea factory

Finished reading The Idea Factory by Pepper White.

It's the author's personal account of his master's degree course in mechanical engineering at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) written in a diary form. Talking about the world's top technological university. NUS made 8th, not bad.

It's really nice reading this book cos there's a lot of common frequency. Our old friends Newton, Carnot, Bernoulli, Lagrange, Boole (remember Boolean algebra?), Diesel, all came out. Is entropy your friend too?

Actually our life in NUS is relatively quite easy. Over there the author had to find his own sponsors, signing up as tutor to get free dormitory, fighting against time for projects, trying to smoke the professor (out of point. but I do that too) etc etc. And getting a C in the result slip was like the end of everything (for the sucidal few). Real elitist.

There are a lot of funny and meaningful lines in the book. Really a nice read especially if you are studying mechanical engineering. Suddenly I feel motivated.

Tag: mit, engineering