I shrug off the sense o' doom and make it through the first day of the semester. I get an announcement about the career fair in early February, so now I know I have just three weekends to acquire a business suit.
I should call Lisa. Lisa will know what to buy and I have enough credit to buy what she tells me to. Because a good suit is an investment and damn the finance charges!
Dr. Flight, who's managing the senior projects, brings up the very Hamster issue about which I was most concerned: the lack of a clear spec from Dr. Science. (Or even an unchanging spec. I'd settle for that. Or, even more in-my-dreams, a needs analysis interview with the people who will be using the Hamsters.) We proceed to figuratively nail Dr. Smith—our Dr. Science liaison—to the wall and insist upon getting a set of part numbers, if not actual parts, within the next few days.
In the meantime, we're ripping expensive components off old Hamster boards to populate the new Hamster boards. Ratso is most enthusiastic about this and I notice that one of the DC-DC power converters is decorated with bits of melted circuit board. Tomorrow I will be checking to make sure that the components survived the ripping off process.
217 words | January 18, 2005 09:02 PM | Ivory towerGreetings,
My daughter and I began reading your blog several weeks ago and we are definitely big fans! We are reading from the very beginning and are now in March '04, although I confess, I have "cheated" and read some ahead. I have two questions. Will you continue blogging following graduation this spring, or is this an exercise in retaining your sanity in graduate school? :-) Also, if we want to comment on one of the blogs in your archives, will you be aware of the comment, or do you only monitor your more recent entries?
K.
Posted by: K. and J. at January 19, 2005 06:55 PMThanks! I'm glad you're enjoying it. To answer your questions:
This is a sanity-retention exercise, but I expect I'll continue after graduation (I'll still need my sanity) unless the nature of my work precludes it. I wouldn't want to get myself in trouble by inadvertently disclosing proprietary information.
Because I don't have time to deal with comment spam management, I have comments closed on all entries older than a couple weeks. So you can't comment on those. But comment all you like on current entries.
Thanks for reading!
Posted by: Nee-chama at January 19, 2005 09:20 PMI'm not certain why I was referring to "graduate school" in my last comment. I am aware that this is not the case, my apologies. I think I somehow mistakenly extrapolated that thought from my own personal experience :-)
We looked at the "Campus in Flames" pictures and they were excellent!! It was interesting to see fire images from a Grace Street vantage point. We live in Richmond, by the way.
K.
Posted by: K. at January 25, 2005 08:41 PMYes, I am probably the oldest undergrad in the engineering school. Normal people do this when they're young.
About the fire. I was really shocked afterwards to see what happened over in Carver and to the buildings right across Broad. Because the winds were so strong and constant, being upwind of the fire was sort of a Disneyfied experience: all the pretty flames and excitement without the smoke and ash and embers getting on you.
Posted by: Nee-chama at January 25, 2005 09:47 PM