Semester starting and stuff...
Well, haven't updated since I finished my painting of panda!Sanzo--it turned out so well! One of the responses I got from posting my picture in the saiyuki community, the one by mistressrenet because of the avatar she used, gave me the idea to try to draw panda!Sanzo attempting to read the newspaper. His glasses would look hilarious on the panda him!! I had to check to see how a panda's paws work so that I could figure out how he would hold the newspaper and found out the panda's do have opposable thumbs, ones with limited movements, which helps them curl their hands around whatever they are trying to hold. I have a rough sketch--I will work more on it tomorrow.
School starts tomorrow--yeah! That is a sarcastic yeah, not a happy one. At least I don't have a class tomorrow--my classes are Tuesday night and Wednesday night, 6:30 to 9:20 each. I think I will head over to campus Tuesday early to buy my books and get my parking permit. The one good thing about this semester is that I am taking my second math-based class, which, looking at that sentence, sounds really funny. Now, you may be wondering why I find that statement funny, well, not funny really, more ironic. It is because I take mechanical engineering classes, graduate ones at that, which means that every class is based upon varying degrees of math--sometimes calculus based, sometimes linear algebra or just plain old algebra. Now you see why I find my statement ironic. But what I mean is that the class is built around learning higher level math using engineering examples, not around solving engineering problems using math. Does that make sense? Well, it does to me.
Then my other class is a thermodynamic class--most engineers seem to have problems with these type of classes, but I have a knack for them and even go out of my way to take more thermodynamic classes--Advance Heat Transfer II this semester. We'll see how my classes progress.
I think it is so funny when I talk to my author online--the one I Beta for--and she complains about her math homework. I think she is taking basic algebra right now. It is funny because it is assumed that I can use all kinds of algebra to define the equations I then need to solve. I could do her homework in my sleep no problem. It just shows me how much we use what we learn in K-12 school. The things I take for granted that I know now are what I was taught in grade school. So when I eventually have children and they complain that they don't need to know this stuff because they will never need to use it, I can counter that argument effectively.
Ah, bedtime now.
School starts tomorrow--yeah! That is a sarcastic yeah, not a happy one. At least I don't have a class tomorrow--my classes are Tuesday night and Wednesday night, 6:30 to 9:20 each. I think I will head over to campus Tuesday early to buy my books and get my parking permit. The one good thing about this semester is that I am taking my second math-based class, which, looking at that sentence, sounds really funny. Now, you may be wondering why I find that statement funny, well, not funny really, more ironic. It is because I take mechanical engineering classes, graduate ones at that, which means that every class is based upon varying degrees of math--sometimes calculus based, sometimes linear algebra or just plain old algebra. Now you see why I find my statement ironic. But what I mean is that the class is built around learning higher level math using engineering examples, not around solving engineering problems using math. Does that make sense? Well, it does to me.
Then my other class is a thermodynamic class--most engineers seem to have problems with these type of classes, but I have a knack for them and even go out of my way to take more thermodynamic classes--Advance Heat Transfer II this semester. We'll see how my classes progress.
I think it is so funny when I talk to my author online--the one I Beta for--and she complains about her math homework. I think she is taking basic algebra right now. It is funny because it is assumed that I can use all kinds of algebra to define the equations I then need to solve. I could do her homework in my sleep no problem. It just shows me how much we use what we learn in K-12 school. The things I take for granted that I know now are what I was taught in grade school. So when I eventually have children and they complain that they don't need to know this stuff because they will never need to use it, I can counter that argument effectively.
Ah, bedtime now.