Warning — I am in a linking mood today.
After sitting through 3+ hours of presentations on the same handful of CFD projects, it felt so good to ride home in the freezing cold and wind. It woke me back up from my catatonic state. Anyway, the CFD project is written up, presented, and handed in. Whew! And my controls final is over as well. I didn’t finish, but neither did half the class, and I know I was on the right track, so I will just pray to the god of partial credit, and everything will be fine. Two more: math Wednesday, structures Friday. Tonight I get to catch up on the sleep I didn’t get last night.
It amazed me this afternoon to see how many of my classmates have no idea how to give a presentation. I mean, we’re talking just painful presentation skills. Not having rehearsed, and making obvious by the extreme amount of “ums,” “ahs,” and general fumbling for words. Not knowing how to use Powerpoint. (Do people use anything else??) Having hand-written slides that are impossible to read. It was bad.
On the way home, I realized that I am totally in love with my bike. I love it, love it, love it. I will miss it over break. I hope it will not be too lonely.
Ron has a new webpage that he is working on, he says. So far, he has lots of pictures from his trip to Italy with Buzz in November. I was looking through them and oh man, I want to go back to Europe right now! There was a picture of this square in Florence with all these statues, and I just stared at it, thinking “I was there…six months ago, I was running around just having a good time with some of my best friends in the whole world…in freaking Florence.” Yes. I want to go back. If I had a million dollars, I would travel the world and write about it. Becca could come with me. We could start a travel magazine. She could do most of the writing, and I could do most of the layout and editing. It could work. Yes.
So Tech now has its first Rhodes scholar in fifty years. I feel like I should have gone after some prestigious scholarship just so everyone would have oohed all over me. I guess two national graduate school fellowships are not enough. Dit dit dit. Poor Sarah.
Ok, I am going to stop being a completely ungrateful whiny person now. Off to get my math stuff organized so I can start studying. Maybe if I get something done tonight, tomorrow I can go to San Francisco!!
(12:49 a.m.)
My toes are cold. Hmph. I am already wearing one pair of socks. Either I can 1) put on another pair, or 2) go to bed. Wow, that is a tough choice. Goodnight world!