Today has been a hell of a day and is definitely up there as one of the worst days in recent memory. I kicked it off with an overwhelming 5 hours of sleep. I’d have slept longer but for my thesis appointment at UTIAS at 9:00am. I presented my preliminary results, which thankfully are perfectly in line with our expectations. I also presented my thesis outline, which my supervisor said looks great. So all in all, my meeting went well; this is a good thing considering the rest of the day has been pretty overwhelmingly bad.
Midterms
We got our Aeroelasticity midterms back today, and I did surprisingly awful. By not remembering how to do a particular type of rather simple problem, I threw away about 20% of the test right off the bat. Follow that up with not being able to find a particular equation in the text book, there goes another 9%. Add on top of that the traditional carry-mistakes, and bam, all of a sudden apparently I suck at structures.
Problem Sets
Our propulsion professor decided to kindly post a problem set today that is due next week. This makes three problem sets due on Monday and Tuesday, a thesis meeting next Tuesday, a design review this Thursday, and also I’m going home for Easter, which means I won’t get any work done this weekend. Wondeful.
Cowardice
Over the past couple of weeks an excellent opportunity has presented itself to me. Every day I would come home telling myself I should act on it as soon as possible. Every day, I pass the opportunity up. I decided I was going to make a grab for it today, only to realize that I may have been too late and it may be beyond my reach yet again. How typical of me.
One of my personal heroes, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, passed away a short while ago. Rest in peace knowing that there are those who have learned how to be better people from your teachings.
Death to death.