Entries for January 2006
A New Semester, A Final Semester
There's something about blogging that makes me feel like I need to have a single, special purpose to each and every post. Back in my days on LiveJournal (Yes, Jeremy, LiveJournal!) I wrote much more frequently, and generally about whatever I'd been up to that day. Somehow having a larger audience prevents me from doing that--which is probably a good thing--but it also leaves me with some feeling of obligation for something meaningful and polished, which, given my life as it is now, doesn't come along as often as I feel it should. Basically, I'm too much of a perfectionist when it comes to such things.
My final semester here at Case has begun. It's difficult for me to think about, to be honest. It seems like freshman year was a long time ago and that, simultaneously, it wasn't nearly long enough ago. Mark and I observe to one another often now that we wish we could go back to being freshmen. As much as we appreciated that time, I don't think that we appreciated it enough.
The semester is promising to be an interesting one. I've limited myself to 12 credit hours, an all-time low for me. There is pressure from certain areas to take more, but I have serious doubts as to whether I could handle another course on top of all of work already cut out for me. So far I have two projects, my senior project (a continued pursuit of all that SOURCE work) and an as-yet-undetermined aerospace design project that will have something to do with exploring Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Beyond that, I'm taking Propulsion and Advanced Fluids II (Viscous, Incompressible Flow) and awaiting letters from the graduate schools to which I've applied.
And, of course, there's always my work with the Writing Crew. (I'm doing office hours as I type, in fact.)
Perhaps this semester's projects will lend themselves to some blogging. In the meantime, I hope everyone's spring semester is going well.