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To Be Better For MACA
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Chris Harding
 — Chemical Engineer and Biological Scientist
a year ago

In addition to my grand expectations in past posts, I plan to take Writing in the Sciences I Stanford Online after I finish the PHREEQC and PHAST courses for CO2 chemistry and more. I should be finished with them in 4 more weeks. I am also taking DWSIM for non-ideal thermodynamics and chemical engineering processes. I will be able to do CO2 Chemistry, Packed Beds, etc. 

I don't expect MACA to appreciate my attempts to be useful. I am not a PhD. But I will be more knowledgeable overall. With that said, I want MACA to know that I take my position as a worker seriously. I need a writing course more than anything so I can be a good worker. It is my rate-limiting factor as of now. Research alone just isn't cutting it. 

As for blender, the tutoring site I chose said it takes a long time before one is proficient. It will be the lowest on my totem pole as I am also going to be studying MATLAB, CO2 equilibria and applications, and numerical methods for chemical engineers. This will all take me a while, but I am serious. As a chemical engineer, it is more up my alley than data science and AI. 

Just wanted you all to know that I am working to be more productive. So, I hope to enroll in the class--science writing--in about 5 weeks. The duration is 8 weeks. Also, I am doing this for myself. I need to be better. 

Please know that I am ill. I burn out and need weeks off. So, it will all take time.

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/som-y0010-writing-sciences

#Writing #sciencecommunication #Geology #ClimateAction #ClimateTechnology #ChemicalEngineering #RetiredLife

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I don't expect MACA to appreciate my attempts to be useful. I am not a PhD.

That is certainly not my criteria ... PhD's can be more of a barrier to open thinking in many cases it seems. That's not criticism, only observation. The whole field of science from day one should be more focused on "learning" instead of "knowing" -- people get caught in "believing" that what they know is what there is, while losing all perspective of how knowledge is very much a moving target that one must continuously pursue.

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Thanks for sharing!

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