email to a TA

Following is the email sent to my Chemistry TA. No reply, since it's sort of last minute.

Dear xxx

I was having some trouble with Question 12 on the previous years paper that Dr Yerkes had posted on the course website.

I'm not exactly sure, how to set this up, do we simply mix and match every possible product that could be formed, see which are soluble or not and hence predict the products, or do we line them up sequentially and see which products would form?

The question is as follows -



A student dissolves 2.00 g each of CaCl2, NaOH, (NH4)2SO4 and AgNO3.
How many different precipitates will form?
Thanks
Karmanya Aggarwal

Networking and Initiative

To be honest, I'm cheating with this one - we're supposed to be talking about Networking and Initiative, so I doubled it up with talking to my iTeams iCOA - Mark Niemeyer from Caterpillar.

Below is the email I sent him and his reply - it's not the best of cold calls, but I figured I had a little bit of leeway since they're already iCOAs (and actually know what DC3M is)

Dear Mr Niemeyer


My name is Karmanya Aggarwal, I'm from the "Digital, Computers, Computations, Communication and Media" iTeam from the iEFX program at the University of Illinois.


My iTeam and I had some rather interesting ideas for micro-projects we could complete over the semester. I was hoping that we could sit down and discuss some of the ideas so as to get your input as an experienced engineer as to how feasible some of them are.


My phone number is XXX-XXX-XXXX, could you please call me whenever you get the time, or tell me when a convenient time to call would be.


Thanks
Karmanya Aggarwal
DC3M
xxxxxx@illinois.edu

His reply was -

Karmanya,


I will at Engineering Expo on Monday and Tuesday next week recruiting, I won't be available those days due to the activities we have planned.  I am available between x:00 am & x:00 pm on xxxx and after x:00 pm on xxxxxx next week.  I am planning on coming to the picnic on Thursday,.  I am out of the office on day on Friday.  I will have time the following week.


Let me know if any of those times work for you.  We can meet either on campus or at our office in the research park.

Mark Niemeyer
Engineering Supervisor
Champaign Simulation Center
Phone:  xxx-xxx-xxxx
Internal Tie Line:  xxxx-xxxx
Decatur Phone:  xxx-xxx-xxxx
Internal Tie Line:  xxxx-xxxx

As to how I got his contact details in the first place - I displayed (as my iSA says) cunning. I asked.

So, Networking and initiative, check.