Fo’ Shizzel Technizzel
Written by: Ben Jabbawy, Cornell University
“Don’t Forget to memorize the Krebs Cycle for this week’s exam…”
What’s so funny about this quote, which I’m sure all of you will hear from your science teachers at some point, is that everyone in the class, myself included, was too busy packing up our bags and shuffling our folders, just aching to escape our dreadful biology class. Why should I care about how to convert carbs into usable energy? Once I make it back to the cafeteria to hang out with my friends and listen to Snoop, I’ll finally thank Mr. Krebs, whoever he is…
If you’re anything like us at Technizzel, you’re probably sick of learning science through boring, smelly text books, with images of scientists and experiments older than America itself. What about the cool stuff? What’s inside an ipod? Who is responsible for designing new cell phones? What the heck is a carbon nanotube? How does an MRI actually work?
These are issues we all find interesting, yet we never seem to learn about them. Although you all probably assume engineers wear big, dorky, thick glasses and have pocket protectors for all their pens, We assure you you are wrong. Only 90% of engineers do (chuckle). Today, engineers are so much more than what your physics text books illustrates. Learn with us as we explore the companies and individuals working on the science and technologies of tomorrow.
