This is what i think

I wish people with Masters degrees had titles… like PhD or MDs have the title of Dr. Last Tuesday I defended my thesis which was titled: Preliminary Design of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Using a Multiple-Objective Genetic Optimizer. It went really well. I wasn’t really nervous because I knew my research really well. I think I gave a good presention… I didn’t have very many detailed questions and if I did it was a breeze to answer. All in all it was great.

BUT… I’m bored out of my mind here in Blacksburg. I’m going to start going to the gym A LOT. I was going to start today but when I was in Arlington I pulled something in my back sleeping on Brian and Andy’s couch. So yeah, I went up to Arlington last weekend. I went up on Friday and signed the lease for my new apartment and got a tour of it. I took a video, of which the camera work is crappy and I didn’t edit it at all, but here it is:

New Apartment (unedited)

I’m really excited about it (yes, again) and the apartment is actually a lot nicer than I was expecting.  The weekend up there was great.  I got to see a lot of my friends and I met some new ones too.  I move up there June 25th.

I also received my first bass guitar, and it’s awesome (not the best picture, i need to take one without the case):

Adam has set up his recording equipment and recorded some tracks, and I’m going to try and do some bass tracks to go along with them.  I’m going to start experimenting with that tomorrow.  We’re going to calibrate our recording setup with Jimi Hendrix’s - Hey Joe.  Ron has yet to pick a track to calibrate with us, but he’s moving in a week so he’s a bit busy.

It hasn’t quite gotten hot here in Blacksburg (not stifling so in the apartment at least).  I’m dreading when it is.  Hopefully my remainder here I’ll get lucky.  I need to figure a few things out before I start work.  First I need to buy a set of dress shoes.  Then I need to figure what kind of backpack or briefcase (do people still use those?) that goes with a suit.