Happy Friday!

This class thing is really starting to butter my bread (I'm not so sure that's bad - I like butter and bread, and I like butter on bread, but basically read:tick me off). I finally figured it all out yesterday. I am taking: Computer Animation, Tactical Missile Design, and Complex Variables. Well, this morning, Dr. Flandro, one of the Missile Design teachers emailed me and said that it's fine for me to take that class, but I'd probably do better in Mechanical Vibrations. It would be of more use to me and I'd be able to use my differential equations background. AAAHHH!

I think I'm just going to stick to my missile class. Designing a missile is way cooler than solving vibrations in a string anyway. Also, the vibrations class is at 7:45 in the morning, and let's be honest, how often would I oversleep for that!?

My first project for the missiles class is very cool, if not a little vague. I have to design the missile which will carry an SDB (small diameter bomb) 350 miles toward its target and 30,000 feet in the air. I have to figure out everything, from how much the whole thing will weigh (adding up every nut, bolt, screw...) to deciding the fuel it will use, velocity, air resistance, time it will take, how will I get it to the "battlefield". The teacher seems nice, but he's pretty vague about what exactly our requirements are and what's expected. I'm not the only one wishing for some more clarity, and I've got my muscle (read: Lee) on it for Monday. He'll sarcasm it out of him (I would have said beat it out of him, but sarcasm seems to be Lee's strong suit - Lee, you know it's true).

I watched "The Descent" last night. Very scary. Makes me never want to go caving again. If it's late at night, or scary movies freak you out, or you don't like seeing people's insides being eaten, then don't watch this movie. That being said, it really wasn't terrible, but it was scary.