As of today I have outstanding homework assignments in all my classes: Microfabrication, Discrete Structures, and Advanced Digital Systems. Together with the Senior Design Seminar, these add up to a full course load. Oh, and there's that huge senior project (more fun with Hamsters) to do as well. Also, we are the class of record as my university goes for ABET accreditation for the computer engineering program (Now in its fourth exciting year!) so we have to prepare a portfolio of various lab reports, papers, and projects we've done over the years. And they want this portfolio in the form of an interactive website so it will look nice for the accreditation board. I should get cracking on that right away instead of leaving it till May. I'll get to it as soon as I finish up the little translation job that came in today.
If all that wasn't enough, we had the mandatory safety lecture in preparation for entering the clean room and making some chips. We will be using chemicals that can sink imperceptibly through your skin and dissolve your bones, chemicals that can reduce your lungs to jelly, and nail polish remover, which is pretty benign by comparison. And I thought the warning signs all over the ChemE floor were scary. Suddenly this doesn't seem like such a fun class. The bunny suits don't even have ears.
232 words | January 25, 2005 09:33 PM | Ivory tower