Thursday, January 23, 2014

The Fun Starts Now

Classes are officially starting to teach actual new things now that syllabus week(s) is over and we all have been told repeatedly to show up, do work, do well on tests, and not to cheat.
Now the real work begins. Time to get down to business to defeat homework and an increasingly busy schedule. Clubs are starting up again, and so is everything else. I trying something new to help e manage my time. It looks like this:
 I've covered my mirror with post-its so that I know my weekly schedule and can actually see when I'm free and for how long. It's color coded and I see it every day. It would be perfect if I could keep the post-its from falling off... but I'll figure that out.
My classes seem to be really interesting. My MSE professor proved light last class (or more exactly, that light is an electromagnetic wave that perpetuates itself), which was pretty cool. Spanish is almost all talking and not much writing, which is nice, and is the only class I have where girls outnumber guys by any margin. My physics professor is willing to play with bowling balls and basketballs, and it's really cool to see how the equations I learned in high school are derived using calculus (I'm crazy that way). The computer aided design class is pretty much all online, but the TAs are nice and it's fun to learn how to properly doodle electronically - in 3D! Labs haven't started yet, but I'm looking forward to them.
Rube Goldberg has started up again, and now we're down to painting and making it look cool. If you're on Facebook, like this page for pictures, videos, and updates - https://www.facebook.com/uofarube  - and yes,  it gets crazy.
I now have a camera, and as I'm not yet in the habit of remembering I have it, I don't currently have pictures of people yet. I do have friends. Anyway, here's some of the latest pictures from my explorations of the U of A - enjoy.








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