Anyway, I thought I'd open my first post with the results of an internet quiz that i really liked the results of:
| You Are the Peacemaker |
You are emotionally stable and willing to find common ground with others. Your friends and family often look to you to be the mediator when there is conflict. You are easy going and accepting. You take things as they come. Avoding conflict at all costs, you're content when things are calm. |
Personally I think it describes me pretty well (please let me know if you feel otherwise).
A loser I may be, but I am most certainly a procrastinator. Why did I take the time to make this blog? So I didn't have to study more for my MSE exam tomorrow afternoon or work on my presentation for my Interp & Argument class, also tomorrow afternoon. Beyond that, I am totally lost regarding my physics programming assignment that's due on thursday/friday (I'm not even sure) and I have yet to start the written assignment for physics.
Speaking of physics, today was not my day for tests. I got both my physics exam # 3 and my third calc exam back. I was expecting the grade on the physics one, when I walked out of the exam and checked the posted solutions, I knew that I didn't get any correct answers on the first half and hadn't even done them via the correct method. Luckily I'll be able to get some of the points back if I fill out one of those 'reflections' and get 8 points back boosting me up a few points, but I'm still stuck with a C. Oh well, I still have a B test average in that class.
All I can say for my calc test is that I beat the class average. Not saying much when that was a 65%. Luckily Russ Walker PhD is a cool guy and makes the lowest test score count for 15% as opposed to 25% of the final grade.
On the plus side, I'm feeling really confident about my MSE test (granted I have an 'A' in that class with a 92% test average) so hopefully that will make me happy. I did get a 96% on my big end-of-course lab report (all 8 pages of it), which again makes me happy.
I was in the MSE lab today was shocked at how many of the other frosh engineers were completely dumbfounded when handed a dremel. I guess I just assume engineers have this innate mechanical/machinist urge, since I have it. I mean, I don't mind at all showing people how to chuck a differnt dremel bit, but so few people seemed to understand that tools can make things soo much easier. Perhaps it's because these are the materials science people and not the MechE's, but I wouldn't be surprised if lots of them had never held a tool more complicated than a compass before.
I was again trying to figure out why I became 'mechanically minded.' Neither of my parents is an engineer or really handy at all. My mom is a bit, but she didn't dare attempt a whole slew of home improvement things until I got back for thanksgiving (things like putting up some exterior trim/molding, and replacing exterior lights). I'm honestly shocked my dad got the little scroll saw we used for pinewood derby back when I was in 3rdish grade (Note to self, register for ASME pinewood derby). It's not like I actually know what I'm doing all the time, I just seem to have a sense of what I ought to do; like when my dad and I got a flat tire, he just stood back confused while I tried to change the tire (never having really done it myself before)in the rain...fun times.
Anyway, enough rambling for my first post. I'm off to find dinner soon...I'm hungry and food gives me yet another excuse to not study.
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