Rochester Institute of Technology - Techmila / Ramikin Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Electrical Discovery ... of the elements of electric illumination This may come as a shock to you but I’m an eager elec- trical freshman who has started out on the long road of Electrical Engineering. My first year of study has been no snap of a spark. The classes consist of physics, theory lab in d.c., math, and the old faithfuls English and Psychology. Boy, some of them are real brow-beaters! In physics, we learn about mechanical and heat energies, and sound waves. In theory we discuss magnetic series and parallel circuits. Then we go to the lab to prove them. A few burned out meters and a cloud of smoke later, a proof is reached—it didn't work. Math class is a dilly when we start using the slide rule which is affectionately known as a slip stick. A few poked eyes and ears later we get our final calculation but where does the decimal point go? Page Thirty-one

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A hearty laugh makes a day’s misfortunes smaller. September 9 when I came for the first time to the Rochester Institute of Technology, I had just arrived in Rochester two hours before. Too many things were new. I think that I went to an assembly—really, I cannot remember. Anyway, I did not understand a word. So my impressions came slowly when I realized that I was in the Commerce Department. It is a strange sensation to be a foreign student. You don’t understand the jokes, you are always lost in the buildings, you never heard the right assign- ment. Really, sometimes you are tempted to sit in a corner and cry. Perhaps I would have done just that, if I did not feel that in the Commerce Department everybody wanted to help me. That was my deepest impression, I did not feel strange and alone.” Page Thirty Photographed by Don Kuhn

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This wire goes where? All eyes aimed in the one direction of knowledge in diagram form.