On Sunday I got to go to another concert! We went to see the opener, Echosmith. I suppose as openers they don’t get that a lot.
My boyfriend and I with Echosmith (we are the two in the middle – it might be hard to tell because the band is our age!) They were really flattered when I told them we were at the concert specifically to see them. Then I went home and went back to bed for a little bit before lending my evening to freshmen who wanted help planning out their spring semesters. I felt pretty honored to have been asked, which is why I was willing to wake up so early to be there (I don’t even wake up that early for classes!) I got to tell my story about choosing Riddle (my first entry – if you haven’t read it) to a whole bunch of people, so it was pretty cool.
Speaking of presentations, this past weekend I was asked to be on a student panel at the open house – so, any prospective students reading this, if you were there you probably saw me. I wonder if I can just live there too? I am giving the presentation about our new lab to the Board of Trustees on Friday, so you’ll hear about that in my next entry. All of my classes will be in there, and the lab I work in…. I also mentioned last time about the new College of Arts and Sciences building. The new building is almost done and it’s beautiful – and it’s all mine! And, y’know, the rest of the physics/human factors/business/etc. Not to brag, but I’m 6 for 6 on exams this semester, which means this is my best semester yet – including freshman year! I have two more exams this week, in Spaceflight Dynamics and Thermodynamics, so hopefully I’ll be able to maintain the streak… fingers crossed. I managed to scrape out a 90, which I’m very proud of (I would have hung the exam on my fridge except that my professor doesn’t give them back). Grad classes are scary because you have one exam and one final, so if you mess up the midterm chances are that your grade is doomed. I don’t think I’ve ever studied so much for a test in my life. Which was good, because I had my EP 501 midterm – and boy, was that an experience. But somehow I found the strength to get back into school-mode. Especially the first couple days when you haven’t really recovered the motivation you left behind. ? I have yet to see anything interesting with it though, it’s probably worth about $20 but still. So since we were in Orlando anyways, we spent the day at IKEA, ate some cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory, and ended the evening playing some games at Dave N Busters – and I won a telescope. ? I was pretty bummed about that, especially because his book is about the future of space travel (i.e. We called when we were at about downtown Orlando to see if it was still going on, and it wasn’t. After waking up at about noon, I read on Facebook that Buzz Aldrin was doing a book signing in Kissimmee at 1 PM – well it was 1 PM when I read that post! So I took the quickest shower of my life, hopped in my car, and booked it to Orlando. The only real exciting thing I did over the break was spend some time in Orlando on Saturday. My new bookshelf (well, CD/DVD/Spaceship shelf) from IKEA on the left, along with my new Gravity poster ?