Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Seminars: More Fun When They're For Actual Credit

Today was the first of our required Wednesday seminars. Usually, these are spaced somewhat evenly throughout the semester. This semester, we're going to get about 5 between today and early December. So much for Wednedays off.

Dr. Vakili did the talk today. I enjoyed it. I learned a lot about what they're doing with the carbon fibers. I think Lee did, too, and it's his project. It was one of those things that had to be done in this format to make any sense at all, so why not "invite" (read: require) the whole of the GRA's to come?

Yesterday I had my one class. We're covering different boundary conditions and how they affect the governing differential equation and the solution method. We've also started with some 2-D analysis (as opposed to 1-D). All of this just makes for more fun and more paper usage. None of it is difficult by itself, but it's long and easy to make one mistake that carries all the way through.

I have a lot of TV to catch up on. A lot of it, I try to keep up on weekly, but some of it, I just get too far behind. I also need to get my external hard drive fixed so I can find what I had on it that I haven't seen. It's all last season stuff, but I'd still like to see it. I need to order that piece tomorrow.

The temperature is finally about right again. More tomorrow.

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