Right now, the Ohio State-Tennessee game is 77-74 in favor of the Vols. I attend the University of Tennessee, so I am rooting for them. However, in my bracket, I picked Ohio State to win this game. I'm not watching it - I have the game open on ESPN.com to check the score, but I don't know who to pull for as the clock winds down. I'll probably just turn the computer off and read and find out the score tomorrow.
Today was the "try not to strangle the professor day" after he reversed the decision of the Flandro and is making us design the propellant grains. This is a step Amy had planned to skip. That didn't work out. (I was also going to ignore this step for my upper stage, but I did it for my lower stage already.) All of us have the same problem - long burn times mean large chunks of propellant, which have to be arranged just right in order to get the patterns we all want. It's just geometry, much like Mozart is just music.
I also applied for a job online today. It's with Jacobs ESTS, a contracting company with NASA. I would officially work for Jacobs, but be housed on site at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). All that assumes I get the job, of course. It's in solid rocket motor stuff, the same field as my complaint paragraph just previous to this one. It's a different set of problems in the same field, though. It would be a challenge, but interesting and fun. I hope to hear back from them soon.
Tennessee is down by 1 with a little over a minute on the clock. More tomorrow.
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