Wow, I thought he was cooler than the empire carpet man. Read all about it at cnn . darn i am now hungry for a bacon cheese burger, biggie fries, diet coke, and a frosty!

i finally got out of bed around 7:21 a.m. roomate is gone, don't know where. i think she might be "studying", already???

drinking some mornin coffeee, brewed fresh from my dorm room with creme and sugar.

i gotta eat a good breakfast, becasue it looks like I won't have time for lunch today.
then i gotta beautify myself
pack my back pack
and i'm all set!

ryan is coming to visit today at 4, yeah!! haven't seen this dude in months. i hope he brought me back a souvenir from china. i don't care something cheap but cool.

so here is today's class schedule:

10:10 - 11:00 Statics - Dynamics
11:00-11:45 IEEE Meeting
11:50-12:40 Microprocessor Applications
12:55 -1:45 - Physics
2:00 - 2:50 Electronics

no lab today

i better get a going.

ah this coffeee is good

i survived it.

i am enthusiastic about some, and blah on others

statics: blah, this course looks like it's going to be b-oring! the prof talks like a geek
the classroom is way too small and badly designed, people said they could not see in the back. i think he might have us move to a new classroom. most of the stuff we are going to learn is what i learned in first semester physics

microcontrollers-- this class caught my excitement. we had a wonderful lecture on the design layout of microcontrollers, we are going to be working with the HC111 and motorolla, assembly programming languages to program these chips for processing input autonomously. no book for the class, and it looks like by the way he sets up his lecture notes (aka easy to understand), that no, i won't need a study guide. we had class participation. very funny... ;et me explain

the class question was what uses do we have microcontrollers in?
the classes answers ranged from breadmakers to "toilets in japan", hehe that was a funny answer. then he said a dishwasher to control temperature, immediately i raised my hand protesting that my dishwasher only took hot water and didn't have to cool anything, why need cool water?????? he said my dishwasher was not high-tech ... sniff... =(

then i had to walk to another building for my physics class, tried to solve a second order differential and failed. i need to review that. the prof lectured 5 minutes overtime and was VERY enthusiatic about teaching. i'll enjoy physics, just lots of work, well i am ready!

then i had my electronics class. i found the lecture surprisingly easy to understand and interesting. maybe it's because the prof handed out an in-class activity problem with dilbert's head being the mysterious electronic device as a load in the circuit. that was a little funny.

after class i drove to the book store and bought my last book, electronics. surprisingly this looks understandable. my last electronics book was pure theoretical math blah. i would sit for a half hour trying to figure out a theory with a hugely complicated infintie integral. what does this infinite integral have to do with convulsion or something like that.

oh i forgot to mention, this is the second class that i have ever had where i must have lucked out, or the opposite, of being the only girl in the class. you know it is just something a girl tends to notice in an engineering classes, hey out of 20-25 people here, i am the only girl who signed up for this section. oh well. i delt with it before..

the other thing that i am excited about is the end of semester design projects that i can add to my engineering portfolio. and we will display these in the design expo!

you gotta love reading why big fat companies file bankrupcy and then you read that the corporate executives milked the pennies out of the retired employes.

read this on cnn.com

this was my favorite paragraphs..
"
Also on Wednesday, a federal judge ruled that she has the authority to freeze $1.1 billion in assets belonging to Enron executives. The ruling relates to a lawsuit from Amalgamated Bank that alleges that Enron executives artificially inflated the price of the company's stock.

The bank claims that Enron insiders gained at least $1.1 billion by selling more than 17.3 million shares of stock during the past three years.
"

Capricorn Career Profile





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