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Intro to ISED

ISED stands for Integrated Science and Engineering Division. It is just like engineering faculty of any other university. The course I am taking is an introduction to what ISED actually is. There we learn about the essence of each major within the division, applications of a major to the real life, ongoing research projects in the areas, job prospects and etc.


Every major in the college has an intro to [...] course. They have a specific function. Besides the students who take this major, other students may also take the course. And if they like it they may take more courses in the field and declare a 2nd major or a minor. I like how UIC encourages to combine different majors/areas of interests.

There is at least one quote in each Critical Reasoning lecture materials. Some are funny, some serious. I looked through all of them and these are the top10 (not ranked) that I found interesting:

1. Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough who make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age.
—Jonas Salk

2. Dinosaurs didn’t study critical reasoning. Now they are extinct.

3. Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'.             
—Randall Munroe

4. Advertising is legalized lying.             
—H. G. Wells

5. If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
—Bertrand Russel

6. I may as well say at once that I do not distinguish between inference and deduction. What is called induction appears to me to be either disguised deduction or a mere method of making plausible guesses
—Sherlock Holmes

7. Once, in a lecture at Columbia University, eminent Oxford philosopher J.L. Austin explained how many languages employ the double negative to indicate a positive (“he is not unlike his sister”), but that no language employs a double positive to make a negative.

Columbia professor Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, waved his arm dismissively, and retorted: "Yeah, yeah."

8. When a diplomat says yes, he means ‘perhaps’;
When he says perhaps, he means ‘no’;
When he says no, he is not a diplomat.
—Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

9. Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.

10. After all we speak of people ‘taking refuge’ in vagueness—the more precise you are, in general the more likely you are to be wrong, whereas you stand a good chance of not being wrong if you make it vague enough.
—J.L.Austin

Never gonna put off doing the Physics Lab Report to the final day. It turned out to be 20 page analysis and it took me 3 hours. We're juust doing the projectile motion yet

Critical Reasoning

This is a course where we learn to read, analyze, think critically. Here we analyze both logic and the language of the content/propositions/claims. We study about types of reasoning (critical, causal, probabilistic, statistical, inductive and deductive) we learn how to construct arguments logically, evaluate others arguments and etc. During the study questions and case studies, we apply these into real world examples.
Most of the course is common sense. You have to remember every term and be able to differentiate between them, but the subject itself is easy

Eastern Civilization

This is a real-time online course conducted on zoom. Here, we discuss everything (history, politics, literature, societal problems etc.) from the modern age up until the 2nd decade of 21st century. Also, this is a flipped classroom lesson, where we are assigned a specific reading before a class — usually 20-40 pages — and discuss the reading and the topic around it during the class.

gotta admit that the readings are so boring to me that I read one page and suddenly feel the urge to clean my room.

I feel like I have been fasting my entire life so that I can't really remember eating something during the day, ahaha (it's been just a month tho). First 10 days, I was in Kashkadarya with my family, then I came to Tashkent and spend 3-4 days there. Then, I came here to Korea and continued on. Mb, that's why

Eid Mubarak!

Ayo, chatgpt is cooking with ghibli filter

Men ham o'zimcha Yonseiga kirvolib kanal ochish haqida o'ylab qoldim. It won't be extensively focused academics, or my personal life. Just for fun, to track down how I and my posts change over time. I am def different than I am in October of 2023 f.e.

Help me find a name for the channel below