On Curves

Well, I took the Physics test this morning... suffice to say that I think I did a good job of protecting the curve. It was burliness. Quite unlike what we did when we covered the material. But then, that's what all students say when they fail a test. At least I have the comfort of knowing that most of the sophmore class is in the same boat.
In other news, I have a circuits design problem due on Friday. I think I have it solved, just need to check the calculations and write up the paper work. We're supposed to design a circuit that will produce between 3 and 12 volts across two terminals. The voltage is selected by turning a dial. The voltage sources that we are to use are 1.5 V ideal batteries. When a 100 ohm resistor is placed across the terminals the terminal voltage is not supposed to drop more than 5%. Once you get the hang of it it is actually quite simple. I really like my solution, [but in retrospect I have decided that it is better not to have talked about it. Consequently I have edited the post.] It's actually quite beautiful. At least to me. My circuit. My Precious.
Then you have to cook up some paperwork, talk about tolerances, capaceties for the various components, how you arrived at your chosen design, stuff like that . Anyway, that's the big project for tonight. And Mini Tab. Forgot about that. It's a Statistics assignment.
Well, homework calls. Be seeing you.

The End is Near

Well, the roomates are starting to trickle back in. Ludwhig came in at 2:00 am, having driven 20+ hours to spend six hours climbing the tallest mountain in Texas. (Somewhere in Guadalupe National Park, something like 4,000 feet above the surrounding terrain.) Dex just got back from somehere in Texas that now has one less squirrel. He and his dad went bow hunting for deer, but none showed up. Schmorgan is still in Dallas. Probably looking at the letnet graph and despairing. I spent the weekend sleeping, whatching a movie and doing homework. Have to admit that it was quite nice to sleep 10-12 hrs a day. Being all alone in the suite I cranked the heat up and didn't turn it down until Monday night. I really am a child of the tropics. I think that I might finally have gotten rid of whatever it was I caught... no funny colored nasal secretions this morning. But then, you all probably didn't want to know that.
I mailed my absentee ballot this morning. Hopefully it will get to PA in time to count.... not that it would change anything. Kerry is going to win PA. Too many Democrats in Philadelphia.
Feel alot better about the upcomeing physics test... spent alot of time studying for it over the weekend. I'll find out on Thursday if I spent enough. Just taking a break between chapters right now. I guess I'll wash the dishes when I'm done here. Or the shower curtain. Life is full of such hard choices, isn't it? May my choices always be that simple. I think I will do the dishes. Be seeing you.

On Sleeping In

I slept in until two today... it felt wonderful. Then I watched "Arsenic and Old Lace" with some friends over in MSC 3. That was fun too. haven't done a spot of homework yet today, and have the sneaking suspicion that I wouldn't have it all done by midnight. That makes me feel slightly disgusted with myself... A Physics Test of DOOM on Thursday, a MINITAB assignment on Wednesday, a Circuits design problem due on Friday, a Statics Test on next Thursday, and Circuits and Statistics tests at some point in the near future, and I spent an entire afternoon watching a movie. Well, at least I will have gotten some sleep over break. Anyway, Physics calls my name most loudly. I must go. Be seeing you.

The Time

Couldn't help but notice that my first post was published at 11:41 am.... entirely coincidental to.

Welcome

First a word about my blog title. I don't know how everyone else will read the title, but to me it is just the three places that have been my home in the first twenty years of my life. I am an American who grew up as an MK in Haiti and came th LU after high school, and consequenty Forty-One is now one of my homes. I thought it fit with the whole TCK experience thing. Anyway, all this to say, I am an American. While I have lived overseas, and while I believe that this experience has enriched my life, I in my heart an American. So don't take the title as a statement that I am not a patriotic American. Thanks.