This is a woodmaking project to create a holder for CPX
Drill the hole as big as the circuit, create the line for the wire to get into (a bit deeper than the circuit), saw and sand 4 corners of the box:
Final product:
Fimbel Lab with Kris is like coming to the wood house with your dad in a Saturday morning. It feels like he cares about your safety but make you feel so comfortable to make (not dangerous) mistakes and questions. I am a person who is easily get overwhelmed when everything is so new all at once. But Kris made me absorb all of those new interesting machines: sand, saw, drill machines so effectively and patiently. This is also the same feeling when I am in my lab with professor Melody. Everything is new but I do not feel ashamed for not knowing but almost always excited to learn what next and what for.
For most of courses that I took at Mount Holyoke College, it was almost always bring up the feeling of belonging. Typical examples are Linear Algebra with professor Chassidy Bozeman, Introduction to Computer Science with professor Audrey St John or Operating System with professor James McCauley (Murphy).
Even though the courses wanted to challenge and push me out of my comfort zone, they did not make me feel it was my “permanent” personality or intelligence. And they provided rooms for me to fall, grow, reflect and walked next to me when I faced some hardest problems in and outside class. That is what I call belongingness – it was not just comfortability when things are easy but even when I fail, I still believe I want to be there learning with them.
In terms of being outside of my comfort zone, I realized my most scary courses are actually heavy writing course. I genuinely wished I could take more English (like Creative Writing course). My self efficacy in my English has always been not great. But now looking back, I believe we are like fluid more like solid – we have rooms to change and improve. And my English is not an exception.