User:Axl2

Education and Goals

I am currently a freshmen at Duke University. I went to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Northern Virginia. At Duke, I want to major in Biomedical Engineering and pre-med. My goal is to become either an anesthesiologist or some kind of surgeon.

Family

My family and I are from mainland, China. My 12 year old sister is the only one born in the United States. We live in Northern Virginia, 40 minutes south of Washington DC.

Interests

I like painting and drawing in my free time. I've taken private art lessons for approximately ten years. I also like watching movies and going shopping with my friends.

Name Pronunciation

Alicia Li is pronounced "Uh-Lee-Sha Lee." It comes from my Chinese name, which is pronounced "Lee Shiang." It sounds more like "Lisa" but my mom didn't want to give me such a common name.

Grand Challenge Article

'Miracle Tree' may Help Provide Clean Water to Developing Countries, Curtis Chan, Penn State University, Created 10 October 2010, accessed 23 September 2010 (Grand Challenge)

MATLAB Homework 2 My favorite demonstration on MATLAB was the graphics demonstrations. I thought that the plots all had beautifully vibrant colors that made it exciting and easy to see the graphs. I especially liked the "viewing a penny" demo. It was cool that MATLAB can show the penny in so many different views, including contour and pseudocolor. The different views and types of views of the penny gave me many new ways to look at something simple that i see every day. The "earth's topography" demo would also be useful to map out data in geosystems or other science classes. The graphics demonstrations showed how useful MATLAB could be to users in all different fields.