Epics of India

This seems to have been a very weird week for me. Quite a lot of anxiety, but also some really exciting things.   To start off, I finally got word back from my insurance that my car was totaled from a little incident in the rain, so that has been quite the bit of stress. But I also got the opportunity to talk with some representatives from the CIA who came looking to find new engineers to come work at the agency. We got to do a mission simulation with them and then learned about what it would be like to work for them. Honestly, I can very easily picture myself working there and enjoying every second of it for my entire career. CIA This week has been very easy for this class, since it has all been free passes and reviews. It was a welcome break and helped me get all my other stuff back on track for other courses. Plus, I had time   to finish up the analysis for a wing project for my aerospace structures class. My teammates have just finished building what we designed, s...

The video I found most interesting is actually an advertisement for an on campus event. I'm kind of sad I didn't have time to go check this out, but there is always more events. Here's the video. The image I found is brilliant and very accurately describes my feelings about daylight savings. link

I'm very happy with my progress so far. I am well on my way to finishing this course over spring break, so that makes me feel a lot better about how much work I've been doing lately. I've really enjoyed the project assignments, as they let me focus more than anything else on what I am most interested in and give an excellent creative outlet. Since I'm looking to finish up in about 2-3 weeks, I just want to avoid getting complacent and missing assignments that will set back my personal timeline. When I finish up, I'll have an A in the class and finally bring my course load down from 18 hours to a peaceful 15. I want this so my college career finishes up with plenty of free time for me to sit back and relax. To motivate myself, here is a cool image from my childhood. Never ceases to be cool to look at. Space Shuttle

I have gotten some really good comments on my project over the last couple of weeks. Some comments repeats or are answered in my author's note, but for the most part, I have been receiving mostly format and grammar suggestions. These help me to find mistakes I have made, and also serve to make my site more visually appealing. I've noticed that rather than focus on things like typos, I have been giving advice about how well a story flows when I give feedback to others. I know that other people will point out any grammatical issues, so I have been attempting to provide some variety in my feedback and insight that the author may not get otherwise. By looking through other people's stories, I can absorb their word choice and imagery and play around with it and see if there are different ways for me to flesh out my own tales. I'm pretty happy with my blog so far, and I feel I have put a lot of posts into it at this point. I still think my introduction does a decent job o...

Overall, I enjoyed the Ramayana a lot more than I have the Mahabharata. It might just be because I have been a lot busier, but I'm not sure that's the whole reason. I just cant seem to enjoy the characters nearly as much as I did with Ravana and Hanuman. It's actually been a lot of fun writing about Hanuman in  my portfolio, and I'm kind of sad that his stories are harder to find in the Ramayana versions we have. As far as notes go, I usually take mine about the story I want to re-write, but occasionally I go back and find a different story to write that I didn't take notes for. I've learned to focus much more on the sparse details offered about the environment and sensations experienced in each story rather than the summary. The reason for this is that the plot is usually very straight forward. The image here is what I was originally going to use for my 'Abyssal Struggle' story. I picked it because it's interesting to me how I had completely dif...