Here it is...

...that one week every semester where everything in all your classes seems to line up in the most inconvenient way possible. I have 2 midterm exams and 1 quiz on Wednesday, plus a large project due on Friday. Not to mention that motivation is falling off a cliff due to Spring Break starting in 4 days. At least it won't continue in to the next weeks like it always seems to do...

"Hold on to your butts!"

Slow [E-Mail] Day

Is it bad that I get kind of down when I've only received 4 [non-subscription] e-mails before 1:00PM? I average 8-10 per day, and sometimes I'm literally flooded with new ones.

Is there a support program for that?

..or maybe I'm just bored at work again and need something to do.

Projects

Got 2 projects assigned last week, I'm actually starting to write up one of them 10 days before it's due!

...this is probably a first for me.

New Toy!

I ordered myself a new camera last week; it came in the mail yesterday!

After playing around with some of my friends' cameras, it became apparent that I really liked photography and I should probably get a camera of my own since I'm doing so much interesting stuff in the next year or so. It's a Canon Powerhot S5 IS, which is just about as nice as they come without going up in to the $600+ range (waaay more than I would spend on just about anything).

Hopefully I can make my life well-documented; I post my photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnskyscraper.

Night Off

Taking the night off for once... 'tis nice.

Now if I can just get a whole day off...

Evolution of Homework

I'm working on my first homework assignment that consists of one problem, and one problem only. Remember when homework was something you could pound out in an hour? Yeah, that was nice.

Welcome to engineering school: land of the 3-hour homework problems.

Mmmm, cookies....

Tonight was Hockey Mom cookie night, when the Hockey players' moms make the band cookies for the game.

It's nice to know we're appreciated :-)