May 02, 2011 22:17
Things are so hectic with school, and it is ridiculous.
I want to make a quality post, I really do.
But I have been spending at least 9 to 10 hours on campus every weekday for the past two weeks, even with no classes scheduled on Friday, and it looks like those hours will only be getting longer. I've been gaining weight with the time I've been coerced to remain in a chair by schoolwork.
Hung out with Tai last Saturday though, which was nice. He's shipping out to the middle east.
I hope he is careful.
Otherwise I've got one week to master convection and radiation modes of heat transfer, two weeks to conduct a complicated composites experiment which we've had to design with zero-budget because the department is entirely unwilling to give us any money, two weeks to complete denavit-hartenberg/control dynamics/presentation/report/drawing-package/prototyping for my senior project which has had repeated setbacks from the professor whom is supposed to be advising and helping us, and two weeks to continue feeling depressed reading about the systematic destruction of the Native American culture through the expansion of the United States.
Oh, and the third member of our senior project group has all but disappeared for the past week most likely due to alcohol-abuse related issues, so we have lost a third of our man-power in completing our objectives. Our adviser will most likely not show leeway in grading us, regardless of these circumstances. He is just that helpful.
Also, I've temporarily deactivated my Facebook account.
During a family luncheon for easter Sunday I had mentioned that I had filed for a summer internship at the Hewlett Packard robotics laboratory, to which my aunt Deborah said, "Oh, you know, I'm friends with the V.P. of H.P."
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So she recommended that I disable the account for the image of professionalism. We'll see how it goes.
I ought to give them a call...
I'd really like to get the internship. Primarily for the knowledge, as it would greatly help me with my own robotic project in the Fall semester. Secondly for the experience, because no engineering firm will take you without some kind of internship experience. And lastly, for the money, as it is a full-time paid internship.
Right.
Ought to get back to that H.T. homework.
school,
engineering