Wind Tunnels and Ear Plugs

That has been my day thus far. The ear plugs came in when we ran the wind tunnel in my fluid dynamics lab at greater than 150 feet per second. It gets very loud with a high-pitchy sort of sound. But, hey! we're doing stuff with a real live wind tunnel so everything's okay.

And some time today I have to leave my comfy warm seat on my couch and drag my aching muscles (from exercising yesterday) out into the cold again so I can walk around and talk to recruiters at our spring career fair. Botheration, I probably have to wear high heels again, don't I...

Let's blow up the moon

Well...that's not actually the goal of my senior design class. But it is a possible outcome to some of our current ideas for launching a space module from the moon to Mars. It's been quite funny as we throw out the wackiest ideas and then realize what we just said and what the possible side effects would be.

On checking grades

One always has the sinking feeling before checking grades that they will all be lower than expected. Sometimes it happens too. Sadness. I really did enjoy my embedded control class, but they did have to schedule everything to coincide with my propulsions systems exams and boundary layers exams and after that, no matter how much I pulled my brain together, it was just too tired. And programming on command with a tired brain is actually rather difficult.

But all that is at last behind me. Hurrah!
And the semester has drawn to a close.

I want a blimp pet!

Today is the last day of classes. It has been a fast semester with plenty of work and swine flu and no heat and leaking ceilings and discoveries of webcomics. And a fun semester of choir pieces, math, coding, webcomics, NaNoWriMo, and friends.

But my mostest favoritist part has been the beautiful blimp we worked on for my intro to embedded control class (a class that has one building circuits and programming them to do stuff). Blimps are awesome things, I think. And this class was an amazing class even though I typically spent 3 hours open shop and once 5 hours besides the two three-hour class times. And the exams were hard. But we programmed a short memory game, built an electronic car that drove in the direction you told it too at varying speeds, and then we moved onto the blimps.

The blimps are funny blimpy things that I could reach up and put my arms around about half on the smaller ends. It floated and danced and had three fans we used to control where it went and how far it stayed above the ground. The coding, though, took some time and had many problems. So, while the TAs investigated our code with my compsys lab partner, I invented: THE BLIMP DANCE (in which I danced with and around the blimp, holding onto the two leads that were attached to either end in case we gave it enough thrust to send it shooting up to the tall ceiling).

And I now want to have a pet blimp that I could take on a walk like a dog except mine floats and is graceful, though somewhat slow to turn.
My lab partner thinks I am crazy.

non-cohesiveness

I just realized that last post was rather rambly. Oh hurrah for writing posts when you are sick!

But according to the thermometer, I don't have a fever any more...at least, not this evening. So this post should be more cohesive, right?

hum...
I have no idea.

I'm hungry. I have no idea why. I mean, I've done nothing but sit on the couch all day. And I actually ate food today, unlike Thursday. AH! maybe this means I am getting better?

And then I suppose I should start my homework.

Hurrah for the flu!

I am currently in day 3 of flu-ness. My fever this morning was only 100 degrees F instead of 101 or 102 like the previous two days. But I did have the craziest dreams last night. My roommate and I were laughing over them because there were so many of them and they all had odd endings.

But the professors at my school have all been ordered to be very accommodating to sick people, so they all told me I didn't have to go to class and I could make up that exam on Wednesday and my partner and I could still get checked off for our lab assignment even though I wasn't going to be there. So that was very nice, because, honestly, I don't think I could have even woken up in time for the exam much less done very well on it at all.

And my roommate has been very nice and helpful as well. She already had the flu, last week. So she has antibodies now. She made me chicken soup and has been making sure I eat and drink properly because sometimes I forget.

November is National Novel Writing Month

And I have finally and at last found some people willing to write with me!

Now the only problem is figuring out what I shall write about.


Actually though, I do have some crazy ideas floating through my head which I am supposedly noting down to organize better but haven't yet...