I Hate Technical Writing

Rather, I love writing in a technical manner; I hate the course in technical writing I am "required" to take. In class tonight, we separated into groups to discuss the ethical issues related to some bad chemical or something and whether the engineer lady should report it. Lee and I were in different groups, which led to the groups having the same responses, in general. BECAUSE WE ALREADY DID THIS. Say what you will about CBU, but its engineering program is almost graduate-level all around, and definitely in preparation for the "real" world.

A few hours earlier:

In Heat Transfer, Dr. Antar tried to derive the Bessel function of the first kind of order zero. It took all of the class time, plus 5 minutes of overrun, and he still didn't get there. A Bessel function is the solution to the differential equation of the form d2u/dx2 + 1/x du/dx + x = 0. There can be other constants in there, but that's the idea. And when you think Bessel function, don't think sin(x) or exp(x), think infinite series. A little like a Taylor series, but without the nice original function to fall back on. Bessel is on the list.

A few hours earlier:

I got some homework done, mostly in math, but a little advance in Inviscid. It's hard to get motivated in the morning before my afternoon class, and the afternoon after class is wasted getting ready for Technical Writing and eating before class.

This is for Hot Rod, D-Train, Chewbacca, Little Oprah, and the rest of you guys. More tomorrow.