Christmas Music and Final Exams

I didn't do a lot of studying today. For one thing, my exam tomorrow is Heat Transfer, and there's just not a lot that can be covered. He listed the general topics for the exam (which also happen to be the general topics for the class), and I understand them and can do problems related to all of them, but that may not mean much. In order to ask any range of questions, he can't have us solve many problems (as in none). His policy is that doing all the homework allows you to negotiate your grade higher, anyway, and I did all of those and have them ready to show him, if needed.

I bought my books for next semester. I can't find mention of it in previous posts, but I registered for two classes, when I really don't need anything in order to complete my requirements. I signed up for Heat Transfer II: Convection and Tactical Missile Design. Tactical Missile Design: how cool is that? I will learn more in a semester than the North Koreans have developed in 3 decades. Well, probably not, but it's still going to be interesting. The instructor is the same guy I had for Rocket Propulsion I. He's extremely knowledgeable and very practical in his explanations, since he owns a rocket engine design company. All I have to say is that by May everybody better be on my good list or they'll be meeting my design project in a very unpleasant way (for them, at least). Convection is going to be useful as a class, I guess. Dr. Shultz felt that was a better class for me to take, and Dr. Moeller didn't disagree, though Moeller supported me taking Tactical Missiles if I wanted. The "compromise" they came to was that I should take one class and audit the other. Since auditing convection is essentially the same as taking it, minus the grade, I just registered to take both. It may be a little more work, but it doesn't look like my thesis is getting done by May anyway, so I have more time, too. Tactical Missile Design.

Bullwinkle: Well this is a pickle...actually its more of a kumquat.

More tomorrow.