It is Sunday night here in Toronto, and I’m trying my hardest to avoid schoolwork. I’ve a thesis meeting tomorrow morning and a midterm (in Aeroelasticity) on Tuesday. Since theses are due (I believe) on April 11th, this leaves me about a month to work on it. In that time I need to Pick a [...]

Is Dexter ill today? Mr. Kirk, Dexter’s in school I’m afraid he’s not, Miss Fishpaw Dexter’s truancy problem is way out of hand The Baltimore County school board have decided to expel Dexter from the entire public school system Oh Mr Kirk, I’m as upset as you to learn of Dexter’s truancy But surely, expulsion is not the answer! I’m afraid expulsion is [...]

I’m not sure whether it is because of my recent insomnia, my continually useless and annoying classes, or my incessant playing of Guitar Hero, but I’ve been on a bit of a metal kick recently. In the past week, I have acquired discographies for and been listening to several thrash/speed/hXc/epic/[…] metal bands, such as DragonForce, [...]

Yay, the grades for Structures were finally posted =D I did about as well as I expected, which lands my final semester average at a few percent above the class average of 78%. In other news, we’re down to four days until the boat show this Saturday. Yet again, we will be arriving early and [...]

Last time you saw me, I was gearing up for exams. I can easily say that this was my worst exam period to date. There were a number of factors leading to this. First, we had nearly two weeks off between our last day of classes and our first exam. This is too much time. It [...]

The University of Toronto Engineering exam schedule has been posted at the undergrad registrar’s website. The exam period runs from December 7th through to December 21st of 2007. My exam times are as follows: December 13 @ 2:00pm AER501 - Advanced Mechanics of Structures December 17 @ 9:30am AER525 - Robotics December 21 @ 2:00pm AER506 - Spacecraft Dynamics and Control While [...]

Tabula Rasa Richard Garriott’s Tabula Rasa (the video game) was released yesterday, November 2nd, to retailers. I saw a preview for this game a while back and it looked quite intriguing, though I must admit I haven’t been following its development since. Frankly, a game has to completely sweep me of my feet if they expect [...]

I think that’s going to be my slogan for the rest of the term. I missed two very important events today due to Spacesystems Design: the Slashdot party at Einstein’s, and the release of Gutsy Gibbon. Let me put it this way: I’m ready for this course to end. On a totally unrelated note, I still [...]

Holy crap.. I’ve been busy for so long that my own login cookie expired! Suffice to say that between Spacesystems Design, Advanced Mechanics of Structures, and Spacecraft Dynamics its been a brutal few weeks at Skule. I’m now in somewhat of a brief respite, you could say a lull before the storm of Midterms. Once Midterms [...]

We have a course this year called AER407 - Space Systems Design. Here’s the course description from the Engineering calendar: The course covers the conceptual and preliminary design phases for a space system currently of interest in the Aerospace industry. A team of visiting engineers provide material on the various subsystems and share their experiences working [...]