Downfall of Society: Part I

Why is there an entire industry based on following around celebrities?

Pro Football...Question Mark?

One of my co-workers asked me today if I had any big plans for the football game this weekend. I was momentarily confused, until he specified that the game in question was the Super Bowl.

Yeah, I suppose I'll watch, but you can't make me care.

Reading

One of my freinds mentioned that he didn't have anything to do tonight, so he went to a cafe and read a book.

I haven't read a book recreationally since last summer when I was commuting to work, and only then before I got my mp3 player. Before that, it was the summer before. I need to do that more often, I just spend all my spare time on the computer or watching TV. Maybe it'll make me more relaxed.

Spring Semester, v3.0

And so begins the Spring Semester of 2008.

Classes are as follows:

• AEM 4303W: Flight Dynamics and Controls, A.K.A. "How Airplanes Work." I'm really excited for this class, I'm hopefully learning basically what I want to do for a career.
• AEM 4202: Aerodynamics. The academic side of AEM, all about airfoils and the like. Still pretty interesting.
• AEM 4501: Aerospace Structures, A.K.A. "Deform on Steroids." I've always been at least a little interested in mechanics (Dynamics, Deform, etc.) so we'll keep an eye on this one, it has potential.
• AEM 4601: Insturmentation Lab, A.K.A. "How to do actual scientific experimentation." This one seems to have a lot of EE and I haven't learned a whole lot yet. This one seems the least promising of all my classes.
• MUS 3490: Men's Hockey Band. 'Nuff Said.

Thoughts:

• Yay for being done with Lib-Eds! All Engineering courses, all the time from here on out.
• Upside: No Class on Tuseday, only a lab on Thursday. Downside: Class from 9AM until 3:30PM Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. This means half the days feel like high school again, and the other half feel like full-time work.
• All classes are in the same department, and thus in the same building. I'm bringing lunch to class this time around so I can get fat by not walking enough.

Welcome!

Welcome to my little personalized corner of the Internet. It is here where I aim to chronicle stories, antecdotes, opinions, rants, and random thoughts that occur throughout my (seemingly) uneventful life.

Spring Semester Starts

Hmm... I don't like this new UI. It took me 2 minutes to figure out how to add this post. Turns out a post is actually called a "weblog" now. Interesting... Looking around, I'm actually just now deciding that I'm considering a move over to blogspot, which doesn't try to be a social community, unlike here. I'll look in to that.

I have a new account over at flickr, www.flickr.com/photos/mnskyscraper. I've really only posted pictures from my Ireland trip in 2005, but I should be investing in a nice new digital camera soon (Canon PowerShot SX100-IS) that will allow me to get a lot more pictures up there.

All of winter break was spent on Solar Car: except for the week sorrounding Christmas, I was at Northwest Airlines' Composites Shop working on building the body of the car for 8-10 hours a day. It's nice to be done with that now.

digg.com is a wonderful website. I spend way too much time there.

Spring Classes:
*AEM 4303W Flight Dynamics & Control
*AEM 4202 Aerodynamics
*AEM 4501 Aerospace Structures
*AEM 4601 Insturmentation Lab

Thoughts on Spring Semester:
*Hooray for no more lib-eds!
*No class on tuesday, only a lab on Thrusday = more work hours
*All of my classes are in the same building complex. I don't have to leave there for 7 hours. feels like high school.
*Upper division rules. I'm actually interested in most of the material now!