The weird thing is…today has been great! Oh, my week is still hellish, to be sure, but I am feeling like it may be manageable. This is an excellent thing. This morning I learned how to do the Viennese waltz, and took the E206 “quiz” which turned out to really be more like a midterm. Fortunately, I think I pulled through ok.
After class I spent an hour with my E206 group and Dr. Rock to figure out options to make our system more workable by the presentations on Wednesday. Our biggest problem is the actuator — it moves, but only when it is flat and level. The second it is tilted away from level, it stops working because it can’t generate enough force to pick itself up. However, we didn’t have time to implement our solution ideas today because…
…it is hard-core propulsion study day! Yay, everyone cheer! (Ok, maybe not.) Anyway, our propulsion midterm tomorrow, and everyone is worried. I, oddly, am not worried. When I took propulsion with Dr. Zinn back at Tech, I really enjoyed the class, and as a result, it is one of the few undergrad classes from which I actually remember a fair amount of the information. So I’m feeling pretty comfortable. There will be one ramjet question and one turbojet question. Of course, there is always the possibility that Dr. Cantwell will throw something completely random on there, but hopefully I can reason my way through it. So I have a little more studying to do, but I am not freaking out like everyone else. So that’s a good thing.
Tomorrow after the midterm, I will spend the rest of the day working on E206. Then Wednesday after those presentations, I’ll spend the rest of the day working on AA241x designing our airplane. Then Thursday after that assignment is turned in, I’ll spend the rest of the day studying for our aerodynamics midterm on Friday. Then Friday, I’ll jump for joy because it will be a three-day weekend!
And with that, I am going to end this boring, filled-with-crap-about-classes entry.
Oh!! I almost forgot. This past weekend marked the middle of winter quarter, and thus the middle of my degree program. I’m halfway to a master’s degree! And so today I did one more thing…I applied to graduate in June! Yee-ha! The process was sooo much simpler than it was at Tech. All I had to do was go online and click the box that said “I’m graduating in June, get my diploma ready.” Woo hoo!
