ERAU Day 1

Well the first day of classes at Embry-Riddle has come and gone. Met lots of new people and renewed acquaintanceship with nearly all the other students in my Summer Statics class (Raine, Robert, etc.). Has some fun and assignments (yeah). Still waiting on the rest of my loan money to show up so I can get a place to stay at permenantly for the semester, but I did get the confirmation letter from the lending company. Hopefully this will mean things on this front will get cleared up.

10:20 AM: First up was Dynamics. Pretty straight forward as to the assignments, reading, tests and schedule. The instructor was laid back, friendly, and clear on everything. The only thing I may not like about the class is the fact that he wants both of his Statics classes to take their tests at the same time: at night. Ain't happening for me but thankfully he's flexible about it. Those who don't want to take it at night can arrange to take it some other time.

Next was a two plus hour break which I used to get a jump on the Dynamics homework due friday. I still have to rewrite the problems over to engineering paper but at least they are complete. After this I read up for the next Dynamics class on wednesday, then went outside where I met a guy from Seattle, Washington, who turned out to also be in my Physics class.

1:50 PM: Ah, University Physics II. This is actually a bit of a misnomer for me since I've already had two University Physics classes at Phoenix College that differs slightly from ERAU's scheduling. Basically half this course I've already had so I'm pretty much going to be bored until the last six or seven weeks of class when we finally cover thermodynamics. I'm kind of ticked that the instructor removed the theoretical physics parts saying we could take his PS303 class next semester if we really were interested in learning about it (which I am!). Guess that means I may minor in math and physics at this rate. Good thing I like both.

4:00 PM: Advanced Engineering Mathematics. Not sure how to take the instructor yet. She seems, I don't know, a little elitist but at the same time, she's pretty funny. I know, wierd combo, but that's the impression I got from her. Besides you got to love the concept of "democratic mathematics" (inside joke from the class). She's giving us a requisites test wednesday to make sure everyone belongs there even though she can't use it to remove anyone from the class due to the schools own policy. Me, I'm not worried about it. It's been three months since I used anything but simple math. If I blow the test, so what? I'm confident in the instruction I received from Joe Sueyoshi's Calculus classes and Tim Bryant's Differential Equations class will come back to me with a little review.

After that was the two hour drive home to Phoenix through a light rainshower coming down the Bradshaw mountains. Tomorrow will be a lot lighter with only two classes: AE101 Intro to Aerospace Engineering at 1:25 pm and ES206 Fluid Mechanics at 4:15 pm. I'll probably use the hour break between the two to check out the Computer Lab since its right next to the bulding the classes are going to be in. The only down side to tuesday/thursday schedule is I don't get out until 5:30 pm but that shouldn't be a problem once I actually get my own place up there.


Looking forward to tomorrow.