O dear.

So I'm sitting by this guy in the library right now who is snoring....while he is still awake. I've made sure of that fact by stealing surreptitious glances in his direction when I hear a huge snort just to confirm that he is indeed awake.

I had to move from my nice table with the comfortable chairs to the snoring boy because the 3 individuals who joined me were too loud and obnoxious. I really wonder if each generation after each are indeed deteriorating in terms of ethics, and morals. Standard courtesies of keeping quiet in the QUIET area of the library should be something that is inherently ingrained in each individual....right?

Well, just an update on school and stuff I suppose. I got pretty sick the first two weeks of school and fell quite a bit behind. As a result of that, and because of my low confidence level in all things qualitative, I decided to drop my statics class. While the notion of having no midterms of finals is definitely appealing, I don't know how much time I could have had to study for weekly quizzes which will make up my final grade. The odds didn't seem like they were in my favor.

So, I'm down to three classes; Physics II, Chemistry, and Calculus III. I just took my Calc test last week and I am happy to say that I made the right decision to drop the statics class. This professor is really hard core, doesn't allow formula sheets, and the 3-dimensional concepts and material is hard for my tiny brain to comprehend. I studied over 20 hours for that test...and will find out how I did in 30 minutes, but the fact that all those hours went into that one specific test has made me question my efficiency and prowess at academics. I feel like people in my class who studied 5 hours or less probably did the same as myself, if not better. How depressing!


Anyway. I'm trying to not be as uptight as I was last semester, but I fear that as a result of that my grades will plummet significantly. I am considering joining the student chapter of ASME and AIAA. They both have pretty cool projects they want to work on, such as the human powered vehicle for ASME, and the Design Build Fly competition for AIAA. I don't know which one I want to do yet, but am leaning towards AIAA because they are more organized, and the competition in April is in my parent's state! Or maybe I won't participate in any of them.