Thursday, January 27, 2011

Seven months later...

Seven months later, I have finally finished my qualifiers. The victory was two-fold. The first victory was for my meds. I entered the qualifier makeup time into my calendar while still in OK. However, when I came back to Indiana the calendar changed the times, so I thought it was an hour later than it really was. The morning of the test, I received a text from my professor wondering where I was because the test had started 20 minutes earlier. A year ago if this had happened, I would have freaked out and probably would have been jittery most of the morning. Since I was on my meds, I just calmly pulled my pencil and calculator out of my bag and went and took the test. The second victory was that I passed the qualifier with an 8.6/10 which was the highest score of the retake group.

Another exciting development in my life is that I have started taking a yoga class with Elaine at her gym, Ice Athletic Center. We walked into the first class yesterday and were greeted by the rest of our classmates who, much to our surprise, were five ladies all over the age of 60. It is really nice because it doesn't matter how out of shape or inflexible I am, I still look good compared to them. The rest of the gym facilities were really nice and I might use the gym for more than just yoga. The memberships are a bit high, but they sell day passes at 10 days for $79.



Tuesday, January 11, 2011

End of one year and the begining of a new semester

I am finally back home. We almost didn't fit in the car again coming back from Oklahoma. The weather here is awful. There is at least two feet of snow on the ground and the streets are covered to the point where you can't see where they are.

While classes start on the 18th, I still have work to get done. My laser returned from repair, but the main component of my research, the pump, is still in Canada. I am hoping to finally start taking data this semester.

I am also taking two classes: turbulence and finite element analysis.