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The above pic is from my room before we left for the TKE party (best party I’ve been to at tech)

First weekend of classes is finally over. I don’t have any additonal comments to add to those first two days about my teachers. I spent 5 hours in randolph today (sunday) doing homework with people. I’m determined to get better grades this year. I need above a 3.5 semester GPA to bring my cumulative GPA over a 3.0, and this is supposed to be my hardest semester/year for AOE majors/people in general so I’ve got my work cut out for me. 12 days til my 21st birthday… I don’t have any tests around it and I have some of my homework assignments for after it already, so I can get those out of the way beforehand. My goal is to be ahead of everything and be caught up on reading… so here’s to that

Rock out…

In my thin-walled structures class today, the professor asked: What is a force? Being a room full of engineers we all know what a force is, yet no one volunteered an answer. We kind of just sat there for a few minutes and stared at the professor. Whereas it is one of the most basic things anyone can know about physics or engineering, with all the knowledge we’ve accumulated no one was confident enough to blurt out any one of a billion answers. I thought that was pretty funny today.

Today I had Vehicle Vibrations and Controls, Thin-walled structures, and Operational Methods. My VV&C teacher laughs way too much at himself (he’s not funny), but this is probably his first time teaching… ever… he’s a PhD student. He’s very awkward… so I don’t know how much I’ll be learning in that class from him, but I expect a good grade. In Op Methods we started going over actual stuff today… and no one had any idea what the guy was talking about. The tests will be take home… which is good… but it’s not because he’s cool like that… it’s because the questions we’ll be answering can’t really be done the right way in a test period (an hour or two). So I guess it’s going to be a repeat of the Materials tests from last semester (which took nights of work).

Differential Equations is also starting to come back to me. I borrowed Adam’s Diff Eq book that he had lying around and I read the first 2 chapters and I can definately re-pick this stuff up.

Stuff won’t start appearing on the Wiki until I get this introductory stuff done. I will probably be posting my notes straight to it. I don’t think I will be able to dumb it down like I had originally planned… that may be too much for me to do, though if I could do that, I’m sure it would help me out a lot.

I think I’m going to go workout a bit in the fitness room downstairs…

Hang out…

Today I had Aero/Hydrodynamics, Thermodynamics, and Astromechanics. All of my professors seem like good people. The courses also don’t seem that difficult… now don’t get me wrong, they will all be a lot of work… but it is quite possible. I do have to (re)learn differential equations and some other higher math that I’ve forgotten (or never actually knew in the first place). So far all of my homework assignments are due next week, they aren’t that big, and I’ve already started on one of them. I used my ipaq in all of my classes with wireless on (so about 3-4 hours use) and I still had over half of my battery left at the end, so I was really happy with that. I’m really liking the no-morning class schedule but it is annoying that I have no time for lunch MWF… I’ll have to start eating breakfast those days (I was starving after my third class).

Ron and I started putting together our episode of Cribs this weekend/today. It’s going to take a lil bit of work, and I hope we can have it done within the next two weeks (that way it can’t interfere too much with our work). We’ve studied a bunch of episodes of the actual TV show so it will be heavily based on their style (which is basically… always have music in the background and film everything from a million different camera angles). We’re also shooting for a run-time of around 5-6 minutes, which with what we have planned out, shouldn’t be a problem. We’re using Windows Movie Maker to do all the editing (easier than finding something else… it’s already installed on the computers).

Parties

Before classes started up this week Ron and I went out to a few parties and met some pretty cool people in the process. This pic is from a party we went to last Saturday, and I thought it was pretty funny…

Rock out…