The first week of the second semester has passed without major incident, and has proven much the same as any other first week – no homework, lots of social events, and catching up from summer vacation.
The classes seem pretty interesting so far. I’m actually getting into the meat of my major a little bit and lovin’ it! I’m learning how to program a microcontroller in Embedded Control and how to speed test it in Data Structures and Algorithms.
But then I am stuck in a few of what I call “Necessary Evil” courses… stuff that all core engineering students are forced to take if they want to graduate. These include a CAD class and Introduction to Engineering Analysis (mostly a physics class with a nifty name).
But I did manage to get a job for this semester (which should last into future semesters) as a systems administrator at the Rensselaer Student Union. There will be more details on that after I start the job, hopefully in the coming week.
So that leaves me with 17 weeks until the end of the semester, and currently (at the time I’m writing this) a little more than 6 weeks until Spring Break. It really doesn’t sound like that much time, and hopefully it will continue to seem that way!!