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Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. Disclaimer: Im sorry if this post is a little incoherent. Narcotics do funny things to your brain. - On Friday, I got all four of my wisdom teeth taken out. Five minutes before the surgery, I lay in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on something other than the IV sticking into my arm. I noticed a particularly lovely cherry blossom tree. Two squirrels. One oral surgeon. He whooshed into the room with a cheery hello!, pulling on a pair of gloves.  He looked bizarrely like the father of one of my best friends from High School, which freaked me out a bit. How are you doing? Well, I thought,  its the first day of my spring break, I have an IV sticking out of my arm, I will soon be able to eat nothing but baby food, and I have more work to do between now and next Sunday than I have ever had in one week, ever.   Great! I replied, flashing him my toothiest smile (to communicate HEY! 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The room spun for a while. Eventually, I stopped seeing quadruple and the room seemed still enough, so I rolled out of the chair and staggered into the waiting area with two ice packs strapped to my face. Lovely. Since then, Ive been on a combination of Percocet and Ibuprofen, and am proud to say that today I graduated to eating an entire stick of string cheese. Its just as well, because I need fuel for the TRULY OBSCENE AMOUNT OF WORK I HAVE TO DO OVER SPRING BREAK. This is a nice introduction to what I have going on this semester. Hold onto your hats (or your teeth whichever are more likely to detach themselves from your body) 8.04 Problem Set 8.04 is Quantum Mechanics I, usually taken by sophomore physics majors. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, quantum tunneling, Dirac notation, probability distributionsand an exceptional teaching staff. The professor: Allan Adams. A legend. 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His office hours are packed and  one of my friends reported that he never seems to take longer than 20 minutes to answer an e-mail. This guy is incredibly busy, but his recitation sections are high on his priority list :) 8.044 Problem Set 8.044 is Statistical Physics: an introduction to probability and statistical mechanics. Its usually taken concurrently with 8.04 by sophomore physics majors. The professor is John McGreevy, who has a toy unicorn in his office (apparently it represents a magnetic monopole: theres no good reason why it shouldnt exist, but it doesnt) and used to be in a rock band. I had a totally bizarre conversation with him earlier this week, about his research: Me: Whats your paper about? Prof. McGreevy: Oh, its about these things called strange metals [strange metals exhibit strange behaviour above superconducting temperature, and his group is trying to come up with a mathematical model for them] Me: Oh! Thats funny. I thought I saw the words event horizon in thereI thought the paper was about black holes. Guess I was mistaken. Prof. McGreevy: Oh, no, youre right, the papers about black holes. Me: HAHA! [totally joking] right. You model metals after multidimensional black holes or something? LOL! Prof. McGreevy: yup. Before I could stop myself: Me: WAAAAAAHH? He laughed. 8.282 Problem Set 8.282 is Introduction to Astronomy: a survey of galaxies, stars, planets, all that good stuff. The professor is Anna Frebel, who arrived this year from Harvard. Shes also my UROP supervisor UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program)   With Anna Frebel, Im studying metal-poor stars: because most of the heavier elements were produced in supernovae, metal-poor stars are usually the oldest stars in the universe. However, we have to distinguish between stars that are metal-poor because of their age, and stars that are metal-poor because theyve been shedding off metal to a neighbor. Right now, were in phase one: Im looking at stellar spectra and measuring the wavelength shift of hydrogen, sodium, calcium, and magnesium. Based on that, I calculate the radial velocity of the star. Calculate the radial velocity of the star! By looking at its spectra, which live on my computer. A real star. AHHHHH ITS SO COOL. 16.68 Research Paper 16.68 is Modern Space Science and Engineering: a 6-unit seminar in the Aero/Astro department. One of the professors is Jeff Hoffman, an ex-astronaut. I confess that I spend a borderline-creepy amount of lecture time looking at him and thinking WOAH. THAT GUY WAS IN SPACE. The class hosts a different lecturer every week, to present on topics ranging from neuroscience  (sleep patterns and circadian rhythms, as relevant to astronauts) to chemical propulsion to GPS systems to extravehicular activity (EVA). This break, I have a big paper to write for the class. We were allowed to pick any topic we wanted, and I chose papillary edemas: basically, astronauts often suffer visual problems due to folding retinas. I have a book called Neuroscience in Space to use. Neuroscience in space. SPACE AND BRAINS! My two favorite things. 21L.703 Paper Revision(s) 21L.703 is Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Company. Its a CI-M in the literature department, which means that it teaches the specific forms of communication common to the fields professional and academic culture. In other words, we do a lot of oral and written work. In addition to essays, we take turns leading discussion sections and delivering presentations on topics relevant to the play at hand (ex. Karl Marx, feminism in Britain under Margaret Thatcher). The class is sort of a broad sweep of politics, history, and art, which I appreciate one emerges feeling like a better human being. Memorize my lines for the musical Yeah, Im doing another musical. See what can come from being a little spontaneous? This semester, the Musical Theatre Guild is putting on Urinetown. For those of you that are familiar with it, Im playing Little Sally. Lesson plan for an Introduction to Cosmology class My friend Eric G. 14 and I are teaching an Introduction to Cosmology class for High School kids through MITs Educational Studies Program: it lasts for two hours every Saturday over eight weeks. Weve talked about redshifts, expansion, grand unification, fundamental forces, metrics and geodesics, but by far my favorite session was when we introduced them to Quantum Mechanics. One of them yelled AHHH MY MIND IS BLOWN!!!! Its refreshing to introduce concepts to kids concepts that might be old news to us and watch their understanding of the world be totally transformed. Schedule the Intramural Ultimate Frisbee season MIT has a healthy active intramural sports program, which I should really write an entire blog post about at some point. This spring, options range from Ultimate Frisbee to tennis to bowling to octathon to waterpolo to unihoc. Im the manager for the Ultimate Frisbee leagues (YAY ULTIMATE FRISBEE!) which means that I get all the captains on board with what they need to do, schedule games, and troubleshoot when things go wrong. Figure out the most efficient way to respond to a gajillion small children The MIT Museum runs a program called The Curiosity Challenge. In a nutshell, kids submit questions or essays or drawings expressing what they are curious about.  I met with the lady who runs the program, and found out that none of the kids get answers to their fabulous questions (ex. why are wood fires red and gas fires blue? how many cells are in a panda? why do dogs chase cats? why do people make mistakes? if there is other life out there, would they call us aliens?) I was horrified, and asked for the opportunity to compose responses. The MIT Museum staff delivered the entries to my dorm, and I now have three GIGANTIC bags sitting in my room, filled to the brim with submissions. There are easily five hundred of them. Im a little intimidated, but am determined to make this happen. Itll happen, whether it means I have to clump all the entries together into broader topics, or digitize all of them and get people to respond online. Itll happen, because it has to happen, because it would be a travesty for these kids to send their questions off and never receive responses. Itll happen, just like all this other work will happen, because it has to. I will get this all done. I will also be able to eat solid food soon, because, lets be honest, this whole diet-of-soup-and-apple-sauce thing is pretty lame. Deep breaths. I got this.

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Separation of powers provides our government with a system of checks and balances, a way to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful. This concept was important in the creation of our government because it prevented one central government. Our Framers wanted to avoid a government that was run by one person, or one super powerful group. We will write a custom essay sample on Separation of Powers in the American Democracy or any similar topic only for you Order Now In order to effectively put their theory to work, they actually separated the powers between each branch of government. The three branches of our government consist of the Legislative Branch, The Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch. While each branch does hold some authority over the other two, they are still politically independent of one another. Let me explain further how the separation of powers works. The Legislative Branch’s powers include passing all federal laws, the ability to override a president’s veto, declaring war, enacting taxes, and it can even impeach the president. The Executive Branch’s responsibilities include veto power over all bills, making treaties, pardon power, and it ensures all laws are carried out. Lastly, the Judicial Branch has the power to try federal cases and it can also rule that laws or executive acts are unconstitutional. As stated earlier, each branch has authorities, or checks over the other two. We know that the Executive Branch has the power to carry out laws. The Legislative and Judicial branches check over the Executive Branch in this manner because even though they are enforcing the laws, the Legislative Branch is the one with the ability to fund the laws and other executive actions, while the Judicial Branch interprets them. And, though the Legislative Branch has the power to impeach the president, a Chief Justice (a member of the Judicial Branch) sits as President of the Senate during this time. Each branch works together to ensure the other is doing what it’s supposed to be doing. I believe the Framers thought separation of powers was so important because their goal from the beginning was to establish a government that was unlike any other. Our Framers wanted to make sure that the government they were creating would be able to withstand itself over time. The Framers wanted to show they had faith (not much, but a little) in their fellow citizens by giving them the power to vote and make decisions. Giving the power to the people was the aim of our new government. By leaving behind countries where dictators ruled the people, and where Kings and Queens passed down authority from generation to generation, our Framers did everything they could to make sure our new government would not become what they disliked so much. Separation of powers preserves the ideas and wants of our Framers, and that is why I believe a system of checks and balances to be so important. References http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_cnb.html http://americanhistory.about.com/od/usconstitution/a/checks_balances.htm http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/12/what-separation-of-powers-means-for-constitutional-government How to cite Separation of Powers in the American Democracy, Essay examples