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Hello! | Hello! | ||
| − | My name is Lynne and I have a twin sister named Jenny and we were born in China. | + | My name is Lynne and I have a twin sister (identical) named Jenny and we were born in China. |
After immigrating to the USA in 2000, we lived happily together with our parents in a red house in Ohio...until 2011 when we embarked on our separate college adventures. | After immigrating to the USA in 2000, we lived happily together with our parents in a red house in Ohio...until 2011 when we embarked on our separate college adventures. | ||
I am currently an undergraduate student at Duke University studying BME and pre-medicine; Jenny is studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (but they are all "crazies" there, if you ask me). | I am currently an undergraduate student at Duke University studying BME and pre-medicine; Jenny is studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (but they are all "crazies" there, if you ask me). | ||
| − | I like doing all sorts of things. Such as playing piano | + | I like doing all sorts of things. Such as playing piano and violin violin, making jewelry and crafts, painting, drawing, ice skating, playing tennis, styling hair...and lots more. :) |
I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese. | I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese. | ||
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| + | People have told me that I look Korean and/or Singaporean. (I get these two a lot.) | ||
Yay! | Yay! | ||
==Name Pronounciation== | ==Name Pronounciation== | ||
| − | Not very difficult, really...it just sounds like "lin". (On a side note, Lin is my legal name. My parents were creative and decided to give me an "American" name that sounds exactly like my Chinese name.) | + | Not very difficult, really...it just sounds like "lin". Well, it's one syllable...so stress the one and only syllable. We don't really stress here on my page. =P (On a side note, Lin is my legal name. My parents were creative and decided to give me an "American" name that sounds exactly like my Chinese name.) |
I think I do look like a "Lynne". | I think I do look like a "Lynne". | ||
Some people are creative and call me "lin-ee" because my name is spelled with an -e on the end. | Some people are creative and call me "lin-ee" because my name is spelled with an -e on the end. | ||
| + | ==My Favorite Demonstration== | ||
| + | The 3-D Surface Plot one of course! Why? Because it looks ''awesome'' and it is totally not extremely difficult to produce in matlab. Better than trying to fold them out of paper. Origami is still cool though. | ||
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| + | ==Grand Challenges for Engineering: Make Solar Energy Economical== | ||
| + | The sun is the most powerful source of energy that humans have immediate access to. Yet, we are still only able to harness a small fraction of the energy that sunlight provides. Making solar energy economical is one of the most important challenges engineers face today. In order to reach this goal, we must engineer a material that both efficiently converts sunlight into electrical energy and is of a manageable price. Solving this puzzle would theoretically eliminate the energy crisis of the 21st century. | ||
| − | + | [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9082.aspx Make solar energy economical] , National Academy of Engineering, updated 2011, accessed 20 September 2011 (Grand Challenge) | |
| − | [http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9082.aspx Make solar energy economical] , National Academy of Engineering, | ||
Latest revision as of 00:46, 28 September 2011
Contents
About Me
Hello!
My name is Lynne and I have a twin sister (identical) named Jenny and we were born in China. After immigrating to the USA in 2000, we lived happily together with our parents in a red house in Ohio...until 2011 when we embarked on our separate college adventures.
I am currently an undergraduate student at Duke University studying BME and pre-medicine; Jenny is studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (but they are all "crazies" there, if you ask me).
I like doing all sorts of things. Such as playing piano and violin violin, making jewelry and crafts, painting, drawing, ice skating, playing tennis, styling hair...and lots more. :)
I am fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
People have told me that I look Korean and/or Singaporean. (I get these two a lot.)
Yay!
Name Pronounciation
Not very difficult, really...it just sounds like "lin". Well, it's one syllable...so stress the one and only syllable. We don't really stress here on my page. =P (On a side note, Lin is my legal name. My parents were creative and decided to give me an "American" name that sounds exactly like my Chinese name.)
I think I do look like a "Lynne".
Some people are creative and call me "lin-ee" because my name is spelled with an -e on the end.
My Favorite Demonstration
The 3-D Surface Plot one of course! Why? Because it looks awesome and it is totally not extremely difficult to produce in matlab. Better than trying to fold them out of paper. Origami is still cool though.
Grand Challenges for Engineering: Make Solar Energy Economical
The sun is the most powerful source of energy that humans have immediate access to. Yet, we are still only able to harness a small fraction of the energy that sunlight provides. Making solar energy economical is one of the most important challenges engineers face today. In order to reach this goal, we must engineer a material that both efficiently converts sunlight into electrical energy and is of a manageable price. Solving this puzzle would theoretically eliminate the energy crisis of the 21st century.
Make solar energy economical , National Academy of Engineering, updated 2011, accessed 20 September 2011 (Grand Challenge)
