Feelings Towards the Trip to MIT

Last Friday, we went to a fantastic field to the MIT mueseum and campus. It was one of the best trips that I ever got in the USA. From this field trip, I learnt a lot about the buildings and school life in MIT.
Actually, I got a PHYS lab make up that morning just before the trip which should be done by teams, but unfortunately, there was only me miss this experiment so I had to work by my own. With the help of my TA, it tooks me around 4 hours to finish that task, I rushed back and saw the field trip just started. It is so luck for me to be there on time.
Our first stop was the MIT museum, that was a terrific place with a lot of complex but amazing robots and other high-tech products. I was attracted by their exhibit, in my eyes, they are work of arts!
The most fascinating part of Friday's trip was the last part to the MIT campus. That was .... unforgettable! Thanks to my professor for finding us a really good guide, because she led us to visit almost every "corner" of the campus, even the underground tunnel! From this trip, I learnt much more about MIT, especially its fanciful architecture and colorful student life.
On the way back, my friend and I went to a beautiful park which was full of beautiful flowers, I enjoyed it a lot. (we went back to the university on foot and saw a shop called "we sell guns" which was terrible)

MIT museum

Last friday, we had a trip to the MIT museum.

The museum is very small, and looks like a storehouse. However, after we went into the museum, we attracted by the high technology. There had some pictures on the wall. If you look at the picture nearlly, it is the photo of Einstein. But if you had a distence with the picture, you will find the photo changed, it become Harry Potter and other person.

On the second floor, there has l ots of machine. It is very amazing, and we can try to atart them.

This is the last trip of our Exporing america class. So I will miss it.
And thanks to the Phyllis gave us so much wonderful trips, and I will never forget them.

Awesome Harvard University

Last Friday we went to the Harvard University.

Harvard University (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the first corporation chartered in the United States and oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. People all around the world know that Harvard is the best university in the world. It was so exciting to stand on the campus of Harvard. Although I am not the student of Harvard, it is still a great thing to feel the atmosphere around it. The only thing I do not think it very good is that we did not go there at the right time, because the all the students were on holiday and the campus were full of tourists. We can not see the real side of the Harvard.

Concert in Thursday

Last thursday, July 22nd 2010, Susie and I went for a concert in Brookline public library. It was an amazing concert-- there were solo piano performance, singing with cello, and other electronic music performance. We appreciated and learnt a new instrument called theremin, interviewed with the theremin player who is a university professor named Bryan and even tried to play the theremin by ourselves.
Playing the theremin is different from other instruments for musicians, player don’t need to contact with this electronic musical instrument in order to control it. Musicians just need to move their hands near the theremin and the music will change with the distance between hands and theremin change. Left hand control the volume and right hand control the pitch.So when we see Bryan performed in the instrument , it looked like he is waving his hands and conducting an orchestra. The voice make my theremin can be very interesting, Bryan even imitated the crying of babies after a baby cried during the concert.
The atmosphere of this concert was very relaxing, full of harmony. From the first person singing like telling a humorous story, to latter asking the audiences title a piece of electronic music, we can found that the musicians use music as a way to express their emotion. Most of the best titles they prized are like description of a scene with fantastic imagination. From the interview with Bryan, we can see that he really found of music. He started learning music from his childhood and chose it as his major when he grow up, he can play many instruments, have wide interest in music field. This couldn’t be done just for career, the sprites and love to higher level of music is really worth learning.


Interview Copy:
Interviewer (I): Where is your inspiration come from in writing that kind of music?
Answer (A): I think it is really just a willingness to make music starting from any sound. Any sounds can be made into music.
I: But I think it is really hard to play other kinds of music, like jazz and blues.
A: Yeah, well you can play jazz or blues on it but it’s very very difficult.
I: It’s very hard to control.
A: Exactly, because there is no physical feedback. You just have to find notes in the air and constantly checking and adjusting. Lots of little corrections all the time.
I: When did you start to write that kind of music, since college?
A: Yeah, since college.
I: When did you learn to, en…I mean when you fell in love with music?
A: Oh, I think when I was just a small child, but when I was 17 I decided to do it professionally. Right, become a professional.
I: Have you learned to play some other kinds of instruments?
A: Yeah. Piano, guitar, clarinets and lots of others, because as a composer, you should know how each instrument work, what does the player have to do.
I: Did you invent that instrument?
A: No.
I: What is that called?
A: Theremin. It was invented in 1920 but this one is a newer design. You don’t see them a lot because they are very difficult to play. There are actually hundreds of videos on Youtube. A lot of people get them. You know people will buy them and enjoy them.
I: Is it expensive?
A: This one is expensive. But you can get a good one for only or less than four hundred dollars.
I: Is it the older the better or you should get a new one when it’s old?
A: It’s electronic, so the age doesn’t affect.
I: Could you please to tell me what is your favorite genre?
A: Eh…That’s a tough one because I like a lot of genres.
I: Okay. Thank you for your time!
A: Oh yeah, and thank you for your interest.

Harvard

This week, we go to a famous university in our world: Harvard University. In my childhood, visit to Harvard is a dream for me. So this Friday, I’m so happy can oneiromancy today.
I went to Harvard by subway. Harvard University, which celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1986, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Eight presidents of the United States – John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, John Fitzgerald Kennedy George W. Bush and Republic of Kenya– were graduates of Harvard. Its faculty has produced more than 40 Nobel laureates.
I remember the library in Harvard. That’s so big. Like this picture. I like this library, because I can feel a liberal feel from library. The Harvard University Library system provides comprehensive access to library holdings across the boundaries of individual faculties and disciplines. The University Library is also a department of the University's central administration through which the libraries collaborate in the areas of digital acquisitions and collections, information technology, high-density storage, and preservation.
The time is too short, so I will come back for Harvard to know more about you: Harvard!

harvard

this week, we went to one of the famous university in Boston, Harvard university.

when i first get in the Harvard, i thought that

it was a high-tech university with full of high buildings and morden falicities, however, Harvard was built as a classical and traditional place. All the buildings and facilities are reserved as it is in 18th century. this picture in the right top can show that how it looks like inside of building, more likely to be thought as a church in the mid-century. probably this old and conventional style is another way to express the heritage for Harvard to be cirital, and autority. like, old things are always admired and respected by people.

In the left top of this page, another building you could see is their engineering building. this is the building that is not decorated as a traditional one, which is quite unique. personally, i like this building since i am a engineering student. i wish that one day i would have classes inside of this building.

Harvard University Trip

Today i went to a University which i dreamed to go to----Harvard University.

I could clearly remember that i ever wanted to seat in Harvard classroom to study. it was the best University in the world.

Harvard University was created by John Harvard. Many great and famous people was gruaduated from here. it can be said that Harvard University improved the world.

The sight of this Univerisity was beautiful and i felt very comfortable to walk in campus. differ from other University, students in Harvard were interested about study and reading. i saw many students read book on the grass. It was a peaceful place to study and nobody would bother you.

Harvard University was like a small world. Many kinds of students living and studying in there. Some students was very unique and full of his own personality that he made some tattoo on his arm and leg. Some students concentrated on study and it seemed that they lived in their own world. i though he or she might be the next Darwin or Edison.

It was hornor to go to Harvard and i wished that one day i could be one of students of this University.