Feast Or Famine

My fall semester of my senior year was very much feast or famine, with either loads of homework all assigned and due at the same time, or nothing at all. I went about 4 weeks without having to do anythinng.

And it looks like this semester is going to be the same way. I got SLAMMED yesterday. In Mechanical Design, Dr. Dekken threw us 19 problems, 3 of which he's working in class. He claims that he doesn't generally collect homework, but I'm not brave enough to call his bluff. On top of that, Dr. Vakili gave us 4 problems for Viscous Flow. When I walked out to my car after class, I was walking a little funny.

As it stands now, I've got about half of the Mechanical Design problems worked. I'm hoping to tackle the rest of them tomorrow and come into class on Thursday with a list of questions. On the whole, I'm doing pretty good, but still need some direction on a few of them. Viscous problems will have to wait for the weekend.

I went up to school today to work on some fiber characterization, but Charlie the computer guy stole the computer that runs the characterization machine. This is the best kind of way to avoid work - waiting on someone else to do something. Nothing I can do about it now.

In other Carbon Fiber news, Heather and I may be getting a lackey to do our bidding soon. Dr. Vakili mentioned that another student may be doing some work for him, and we'd have to "tell him how to do it." Muwahahahahaha.

Finally, I put myself on the waiting list for the dorms for the Fall semester, just to keep my bases covered. Jeff should be graduated by then, leaving me potentially roommie-less. That's not good financially. Matt Morgan is a possible replacement, but I'm not banking on it right now.