Halloween was fun. Next week is going to suck though. 3 tests and 2 projects due. (1 project done, the other part-way done). Astromechanics is the big test, and it’ll be Thursday night.
Archive for October, 2005
‘Fall Break’
11
Oct
‘Fall Break’ and Serenity
It was a pretty good weekend. Didn’t get much work done, which was great. Here at Tech it was our ‘Fall Break’ (we got Monday/Columbus Day off) so a lot of people went home and it was pretty laid back here. And by pretty laid back I mean I didn’t do any work and it was pretty boring here. Ron and I went and saw the movie Serenity today. It was better than I expected it to be. I enjoyed the TV series when it was out (and recently re-watched it before I saw the movie) and it kinda sucks that it got cancelled. Some guy, below, made a video to sum up some of the firefly series up in 30 minutes. So go watch it and then watch the movie. Had some good fight scenes and the story is interesting. Ron hadn’t seen the tv series and he liked it too.
One thing that was interesting about the tv series is that whenever they swear, they don’t swear in english. They curse in chinese. Really it’s just to get around the censorship of being on tv, but the story reason is that the last two super-powers of ‘ancient earth’ were the USA and China, so the other languages kinda just drifted off and they were only left with english and chinese. I’m going to stop cursing in english and start cursing in chinese. Granted, I don’t curse all that often, but still.
I’m sure most who have seen both Serenity and Firefly will agree the movie has more impact in the context of the series — unfortunately a lot of people interested (or potentially interested) in Serenity will never see it. For the sake of promoting the movie, This guy has compiled some key moments from the series into a video. Spread the word Browncoats!
Hard work now…
07
Oct
…pays off later
That’s what I have to keep telling myself… Hard work now, pays off later. Every night this last week I’ve been in the library working on homework and studying. I’ve had very little free time and I actually don’t think such a thing exists. Free time? Nothing is free. There’s always something that needs to be done.
A lot of us OEs/AEs have been wondering lately… what will we do once we get in the real world and there’s no homework to do?? Jobs go from ~ 8-5PM. That leaves hours upon hours worth of free time that most of us will have no idea what to do with, haha.
Justice Martz
In SGA I was elected from the senate to be a member of the Judicial Branch. So now I’m on both the Legislative and Judicial Branches… all that’s left is to be an Exec too and I’ll be set. As a Justice I am not eligible to run for any elected position next year, so I can’t be a Senator again, or a Justice for that matter. Definately not anything higher up. I could be an appointed exec position though, so that’s always a possibility. Next year I do want to get involved in an engineering club too, though I will probably be too busy with my senior design project.
Work
I need to email work and check-in, I’ll probably do that over the weekend. I had an idea for something that would be pretty cool if they implemented it for their internship program. Since next year I’ll be up at the plant, I will be around more interns (at Pax I just worked with full-timers). Only working with full-timers has one major disadvantage (from a learning point of view, plenty of social disadvantages). No leadership/management experience. I think it would be cool if some of the more experienced interns (such as myself) were in charge of less-experienced interns. Kinda like an intern manager. Full-timers would certainly not want to take orders/report to an intern. But an intern reporting to another, more-senior, intern would not be nearly as bad. Actually, I think it would be perfectly fine. It’d be a great learning experience for the one in-charge, and the ones that aren’t in charge may or may not get their chance later on, but they wouldn’t be missing out on anything.
This also ties into the senior design project. Now, I don’t know exactly how they’re set up… I think there are like 8 people to a group, but someones gotta be the leader. Otherwise things would get too… messy… I’d want to do that… I’ve got some ideas… After all, it’s like they say:
No guts, no glory
Martz
