It has been a while since I have written in this blog! So much has happened in so little time! Here’s just a small sampling of them:

There was no hurricane to ruin my plans to go to Fredericksburg, TX to go to the Renewable Energy and Green Living Fair this year! Although it took a lot of time out of my studying, but it was still great getting to see all the innovations that are being made in the industry and to see what I can do about securing funding for the Solar Vehicles Team. I saw a bunch of folks who retrofitted their cars to be purely electric. One even talked about the time he took his car to a testing center dominated by Ferrari owners. His car was (obviously) the first non-high-end car to be on the bench. With that said, after he ran his car, the torque curves made everybody’s jaws drop — it was something that gas engines could only dream to achieve! Besides that, there was also the machine that acts as a dehumidifier, water machine, and air purifier. It costs about $1,500, but it certainly beats having the water truck coming all the time!

Right after that, the sprinkler head in one of the buildings in Whitis Court (thankfully not mine) decided to go bad and rupture, flooding out all 30 residents of that building. The housing crew handled that situation very well, to say the least. Not only did the residents get compensation for the damage, but they got some goodies! The cleaning crew worked practically 24 hours a day to get the place cleaned up; and in only seven days, everybody was able to move back in!

The career fair came and went. I am now thinking about working for either Dell or APC (American Power Conversion).

I offically hate Motorola phones with a passion. My roommate recently got a Motorola Razr, and little did I know how annoying it gets when you miss a call or get a text message and leave your phone for a long time. That’s right — the phone beeps every ten minutes! Now try staying asleep with that going off every ten minutes! I have a previous grudge with those stinkers even before my roommate got it because of the fact that it would make the repetitive “bloop” noise whenever one turns up/down the ringer. Now imagine doing that in a meeting! My phone, for one, only rings when it is trying to notify me of something important (i.e. incoming call, upcoming appointment, alarm), and that is the way it should be.

I signed myself up for MSA’s Fast-A-Thon a week or two ago oblivious to the fact that I have two midterms on that day. Technically, I blew it by drinking a cup of water after sunrise, but staying committed to it after that gave me a sense of how disciplined I am. One of the professors brought in donuts, and I survived on vapors from that. During the time when we broke the fast, I waited patiently for my turn and was quiet when people were giving speeches even though I was hungry and weak. That is the very thing I want — to be able to remain composed in times of irritability and panic.

Other than that, everything is going well, I need to learn how to divide work among other people so that I do not get overwhelmed, and I am always going to be a work in progress.