I hate finals....
i have spent way too much time trying to finish one of my finals. It is a project that was supposed to be turned in last tuesday, and still it remains in my possession waiting to be finished. My professor keeps extending the deadline for us to finish it by. Which, of course, is a good thing b/c i have more time to finish it, but at the same time i am still working on it!! grrrrrr. I just want to get done and move into my break for the holidays. My brain is fried and my head hurts. i just want to stop thinking for a couple weeks. I don't think it's ever going to end. at least it doesnt seem like it.
well, moving on. i guess this being my second post i will clue in some of yous of what i do and who i am. i do graduated studies at the u of a in the electrical engineering department. my research is going to focus on, most likely b/c its still in discussions, LTCC(low temperature co-fired ceramics) for negative index refractive materials at high frequencies. which i know probably means absolutely nothing to most of you, but it was i love to do. research in electromagnetics and microwave(not your standard microwave mind you) applications. It has been a very rough semester for me in my first year as a grad student. for one, i was working on a microcontroller project that i started in the summer and it turned into a nightmare with me having to work on it through the semester, it was supposed to be done by august. reason why. i hate programming!!!! especially in C++. now, dont get me wrong, learning such things definitely extends ones knowledge of different areas, but it is very tedious work and i envy anybody that can do that for 8 hours a day. it sucks!! but, i think that once next semester starts, i will enjoy graduate school much more. lets hope so anyway.
outside of school, which isnt very often right now, i basically live in the outdoors. i try to do as much as i can in the outdoors. from mountain biking, rock climbing, canoeing, camping, hiking, walking, you name it. i am also a photographer. i enjoy very much taking pictures of the beautiful outdoors. if i wasnt an engineer, i would definitely be a photographer, and who knows, maybe one day i will change professions. other than that, i play poker on the weekends, hang out with friends as much as possible, drink a good beer when need be, and just try to enjoy my life. i am a believer of God, but don't get me wrong, i am not perfect and don't expect anybody else to be either. i will accept you for who you are if you accept me for i am, regardless of what you believe. im not going to force anything upon anybody, i am just here to have a good time. i guess that about it. i probably missed something, but thats all i have time for right now. check out my webiste http://www.37north.net to see more of what i love to do.
cbd
well, moving on. i guess this being my second post i will clue in some of yous of what i do and who i am. i do graduated studies at the u of a in the electrical engineering department. my research is going to focus on, most likely b/c its still in discussions, LTCC(low temperature co-fired ceramics) for negative index refractive materials at high frequencies. which i know probably means absolutely nothing to most of you, but it was i love to do. research in electromagnetics and microwave(not your standard microwave mind you) applications. It has been a very rough semester for me in my first year as a grad student. for one, i was working on a microcontroller project that i started in the summer and it turned into a nightmare with me having to work on it through the semester, it was supposed to be done by august. reason why. i hate programming!!!! especially in C++. now, dont get me wrong, learning such things definitely extends ones knowledge of different areas, but it is very tedious work and i envy anybody that can do that for 8 hours a day. it sucks!! but, i think that once next semester starts, i will enjoy graduate school much more. lets hope so anyway.
outside of school, which isnt very often right now, i basically live in the outdoors. i try to do as much as i can in the outdoors. from mountain biking, rock climbing, canoeing, camping, hiking, walking, you name it. i am also a photographer. i enjoy very much taking pictures of the beautiful outdoors. if i wasnt an engineer, i would definitely be a photographer, and who knows, maybe one day i will change professions. other than that, i play poker on the weekends, hang out with friends as much as possible, drink a good beer when need be, and just try to enjoy my life. i am a believer of God, but don't get me wrong, i am not perfect and don't expect anybody else to be either. i will accept you for who you are if you accept me for i am, regardless of what you believe. im not going to force anything upon anybody, i am just here to have a good time. i guess that about it. i probably missed something, but thats all i have time for right now. check out my webiste http://www.37north.net to see more of what i love to do.
cbd