No, not really. What gets me is why they called it Ike. Which is not even a real name, but rather a nickname (thank you, Mr. Eisenhower, for publicizing that). And a nickname generally makes a person/thing sound pretty friendly, unless the nickname happens to be “Spike” or “Killer” or something like that. I wouldn’t say Ike was all that friendly.
Rant aside, Ike was definitely an experience. The real deal, one might say, compared to Rita three years ago, which turned aside at the last moment while giving us a sprinkle in passing. We hung out in the commons for six or seven hours and then went to bed, while other evacuating students took eighteen hours to get to Katy, normally half an hour away. The term “contraflow” was suddenly coined, popping up on all the networks within five minutes of conception.
This time was a little more businesslike, although Ike took its sweet time in getting here. Between meeting with my senior design professor (!!! yeah, I know), bagging my electronics and taking my posters off the walls, prepping my room for possible hurricane damage, packing for a night in the servery/shelter, playing a pickup game of Ultimate, and witnessing the birth of a terribly profound mockumentary (yes, that is tongue in cheek), it was a full Friday. Since we were sheltering in the servery (the actual kitchen part where they had boarded up the two windows), dinner was moved forward so the area could be turned over to us at 7pm, when we were expected to need it.
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Due to popular demand (you know who you are) and the fact that I have time to procrastinate, I’m able to provide another installment of gee-I-guess-I-should-post. But I have been busy. Really truly.
Recipe for Lame Excuse
- 1 week of preparing internship “exit” (more like midterm) presentation and doing it before a corporate VP and a bunch of contract managers
- 3 weeks of hectic finishing-up of internship project and MATLAB programming
- 1 week of Orientation Week in conjunction with the last week of internship
- 1 week of starting up classes and ordering books and going to classes and going to kickoff meetings for extracurriculars and playing a lot of frisbee and looking at grad school research areas and faculty
So that’s basically been the past month or so. Oh, and there was packing and moving into school as well. My family, or most of it, came down to help E and I move, so that was really nice. And my classes this year … these are the classes I want to take; the foundation has been set, so now for the really fun part. Intro Aero and Thermal Design should be fine, CFD should be interesting/challenging (and the prof was my research prof a few years ago and is really good besides), CAD will be more busy-work but pretty brainless, Senior Lab is focusing on power and should be interesting, and Senior Design … could be hell or could be really neat, depending on the project and people involved. For the record, I am not a fan of the international collaboration component.
I registered for the GRE this evening. I’ll be taking it in late September, so I have about three weeks to brush up on my vocab and learn not to make stupid mistakes in high-school level math. What really gets me is that this is supposed to be graduate level – and it’s like another SAT. I mean, no calculus?
I guess that’s everything new that’s been going on with me – exciting, huh? But it’s nice to not really have homework yet. Oh, and my room is awesome.
