After the last meeting with Prof Yu (the one on 28th Sep), Ni Jun looked very depressed. He told me that he is giving up, he won't do any work, and he doesn't care any more. I was surprised at his attitude, then calmed down myself and tried to analyse his situation. I wanted to motivate him. So, i fixed up a meeting with him on monday (3rd oct). On monday, both of us met in med library. I borrowed some physiology animation CDs from the library, showed him what we can do, how we can follow Prof Yu's suggestions,...He himself searched a lot of sites, downloaded many ppts on arm physiology, but he was finding it difficult to assimilate all the stuff. After i showed him the animations and suggested him how we can proceed, he seemed to have gotten motivated. He said that he will give it one more shot and try to do something about it. I am happy that he got some drive.
After that eventful monday session, i spent the rest of the week till now working on PBL2.
Anyways, I had my group meeting today in the afternoon to discuss about both PBL1 and PBL2. The agenda for todays'meeting was to discuss about the format of the final presentation for PBL1 on 28th October. After some serious debate of how many speakers and who will be the speakers, how many minutes for each speaker,..., we came up with the following decision -
PBL1 Final Presentation:
(i) 3 parts –
Intro+Physiology+Freehand, (7-8 mts)
BCI, and (3-4 mts)
Feedback+limitations+conclusion (6-8 mts)
(ii) First part speaker to be decided among Lei Yang, Ni Jun, Yixiang and Kalyan;
Second part speaker is Zhan Liang
Third part speaker to be decided between Ludovic and
Olivier
(iii) Practice presentation on 25th October, 1400hrs to 1600rs.
Lei Yang, Ni Jun, Yixiang and myself decided to meet next thursday (13th Oct) to select the speaker for the 1st part, and finalize on what to present.
I spent rest of the afternoon with Ludovic and Olivier brainstoring for novel mechanical heart valve designs.
Today for the first time i felt that Yixiang was not too happy to allow me to give the introduction for the project. I am happy that he is taking active interest to contribute in the project.
Hey, its saturday tomorrow, party time. Happy weekend bloggers!
