Updates!

Well, that's the end of school for spring break. My mind literally shut down today... I feel drained. So glad for the break. Even if it's only two months into the semester... it's still GREAT.

So, found out I'm leaving for the DC base visit Wednesday early morning. So... I'll be heading down here Tuesday night. Yippeee.... but it still should be fun, I suppose. The rest of the week will be AWESOME. Arlington, Pentagon, Washington Mall, the AF base... it's gonna be COOL. And maybe classified. I dunno. Keep quiet. :p

Also! Finally found out the time/date for my summer AF trip! For two weeks, I will be spending time shadowing NCOs at... Nellis Air Force base, not too far from Las Vegas!

I'M GOING TO VEGAS BABY!

Hopefully we'll at least get to see the nightlife down there once. I'd like to see everything all lit up... but what's going to be MORE awesome is the aircraft that fly out of Nellis:
Fighters (F-16, F-22)
Drones (Predator)
Helicopters (Pave Hawk)

Also, apparently one of the AF jet show teams, the Thunderhawks is based out of there. Sooo..... cool.

Anywho, that'll be going down July 14-28. So... hopefully it'll still fit with my schedule. (Math class, job....)

So, I'll be back home tomorrow! I'll get to see the puppy! Hooray!

Now, I'm going to go now before I get TOO excited. After all, I have a physics exam after break ends...

Here we go again....

Well, I am officially giving up on my phone sending posts to this blog. Two failed ones in a row. Curses, foiled again. :p

Anywho, the contents of that message expanded into a full blow blog post are as follows:

I need a new phone. My current one has this problem, where it decides to turn itself off on a whim, anywhere, anytime, with no provocation. This is ESPECIALLY bad when I'm studying for my programming exam and miss color guard and math group because my phone is off, sitting right next to me while people call it to ask where I am. Yeah, my day went from average to terrible at about 1030 last night when I checked my phone and realized I'd missed my commitments... <_<

Add that to the fact my programming exam is today, not tomorrow, I can safely say that my internal clock is out of whack, and I am officially stressing out. Thank god spring break is in two days. That's all I have to say. I need all the time I can get for my physics after break ends.

ROTC is still going well, however. Got a 100% on my Physical Fitness test, improving my run time by 20 seconds over last semester! Add that to a very positive midterm review from my flight commander, and the continuing arrival of checks every few weeks from ROTC... and I'm a happy Cadet. :D

In other news, I decided to buy an Ipod Touch. I brought my old MP3 up here to start using, and I proceeded to plug it in... but it wouldn't charge. I think it died somehow. So, I'm going to splurge for an MP3 player that's NOT 5-6 years old, can hold more than a quarter of my music, and gets Wifi so I can check my e-mail without a laptop. :p I figure I've got enough splurge money allotted from my ROTC book stipend and the few checks from each semester that I say are just for entirely disposable income...

So, that's my week. Base Visit and Spring Break next week. All I can say is...

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Now, you may be curious...

...as to why I have several lines of gibberish below this entry, Well, apparently my nifty phone posting system decided to go a bit wonky yesterday. Bit weird...

Anywho, what that was SUPPOSED to be saying was that I was in the gym, commenting that I had gone to PT that morning, went running in the afternoon, and then went swimming for about an hour. So, yeah. I exercised a lot, and it felt pretty good. :D

Had a decently busy night alst night... we went up to North Campus to watch a musical/play/thingie being put on at 7 called "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog." It's basically a thing from youtube that was written during the writer's strike by Joss Whedon. It has Neil Patrick Harris in it... and is about an aspiring supervillain who has his own fair share of problems. Check it out, if you're into us young people's style of humorousness.

Anyway, they were sold out, so we're going today instead. At about 10 though, we went down to the Michigan Union for Umix (a Friday night thing every week for those who don't go partying) where we watched some standup comedy, including some done by the guy across the hall from me. Definitely worth the trip.

After that, we got back here.... me and Mike attempted to play some video games, but both fell asleep by 130. (Which, in college on a Friday night, is EARLY.)

And... that's the news so far! Not much else has been interesting happening... nothing in the news really... though I'm sure you've all heard by now President Obama is doing the commencements here this spring. And... what else.

Not much to talk about. So! THat's all for now. Check ya later.

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So... busy.

Title 'bout sums it up. I've been working pretty hard... going through my routine, and, well, not much has changed. Still trying to pull all my grades up, I have a midterm tomorrow for ROTC (easy peasy) and next week (for programming, hopefully also easy), and... school stuff. We'll just see if I can't make my grades decide to take a bit of a jump here.

Besides that... after next week is my Spring Break! I get the weeked off, potentially might go visit a friend's house in Alma, and that Wednesday 'll be heading off to DC for a base visit! I'm awfully excited. I might have even mentioned the base visit on here already, but hey. It's gonna be fun.

Anywho, off to class! Got a bunch of work to do and plenty of studying to finish before I can get any more slacking off done.

Rough, rough week.

Title about sums it up. Exams finished and got my grades back... and let me tell you. I was right to worry about Physics and Calc being much harder than my Engineering one...

Let's start with Math. As always, I get the subject material, but something about the exams just puts my mind through a loop. There was not NEARLY enough time for me to finish the test, but I was pretty confident on the parts I did finish. Apparently not. C. Which... I suppose is passing, and it will get me into any major's restrictions fine. It's just... disappointing.

And then there's Physics. Sweet god... physics. See, I thought I did decent on this exam. I thought I pulled a C, maybe a B. Sure, the test started tough, but about 1/3 in, it picked up and I went through all the problems with confidence of how to do them.

I got a 30%.

30.

Let me repeat the number for MY benefit. 30.

Now, I studied. I spent a bunch of time reading through the book, writing my notecard, going to review sessions and my study group... I did a lot of problems, and they made sense. However, something in that test... I just failed apparently. And now... I'm going to have to put night after night after night of solid work for the next 5 weeks until my exam. I NEED to 100% my next exam, or this class will not go well. And the thing is... other than doing more practice problems, I don't know how to study differently. It's just... ugh. I have NO idea what went wrong. But.. this won't happen again. I'll make sure of that.


Enough of the bad news. Good news! In two weeks on Michigan's Spring Break I'll be heading to DC on a base visit. It's gonna be awesome. We're gonna go tourist around a bit see some museums... maybe go to the Pentagon. It's gonna be fun.

So... that's all! Other than those abhorrent tests, things have been going well. I'm REALLY tired right now. I just had swimming class, and we did a lot of endurance, holding our breath... etc. I will sleep good tonight.

Housing = Complete

Just got my housing contract for next year set up. And despite all odds against sophomores getting rooms there, me and my friends got into North Quad. Yes, North Quad, the newly finished dorm that is supposed to be as nice as physically possible. My room will be bigger, and I'm in a suite with my own bathroom. Me and Mike are together again, and there will be another as yet unknown pair sharing this 4 person suite that-is-not-a-quad with them. Hopefully they'll be awesome. Ya never know. I'm also keeping the same meal plan, which is 150 meals a semester with $200 to spend at various other university eateries. Neato. And it looks about the same price as this year. So... I'm pumped. Whoo. Hoo.

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exception of handguns and tequila - Sara Ford's Blog

Programming Class. Ah, ever so enjoyable. It actually is getting a bit more difficult now though... working with loops and such and, though I understand them, actually writing one is a bit too complex for me. Shame. It's going well otherwise though. Still gleeful about the 88.7%. Ohboyohboyohboyohboy.

Just had a physics exam yesterday. Things have been pretty crazy leading up to it, and I can safely say I somehow still wasn't prepared enough. It was crazy hard. I'm just hoping the class agreed with me... at least, that's what it seemed like from the people I asked. I feel like I passed, sure.... but as for a good grade? Eh... Hopefully. It was REALLY hard.

And to add to my joys, I have a Math exam monday. Guess who'll be doing practice exams all weekend! This kid *points at self.* And integrals are HARD.

ROTC has also been going pretty well... I'm still Flight commander of my Arnold Air Society group, so I'm still dealing with crazy amounts of e-mail, but that's easily dealt with. It's still fun, and I have my first extra activity today, from 5-7 where have just some more intense training known as Warrior Spirit. Fun stuff.

Anyway, that's an update on how things have been going... nothing too detailed. Kinda busy. Whee!

Make that an 88.7. someone forgot that 18 plus 8 does not equal 24.

got an 86.67 on my programming exam! 5 above the median, 7 above the average! woohoo! i got a good grade!