ERAU Day 2

Well day two at ERAU went well for the most part. Pretty much the only problem came about from the students working at Financial Aid acting like a bunch of assholes towards the students coming in, especially those (such as myself) asking questions (which they did not answer). Otherwise today was fun. I still need to go to the Comp Lab guys to figure out why I can't get into the Blackboard system, though.

Had a storm come through while I was waiting for class to start with a lightning strike starting a fire not to far from the campus, but it was taken care of pretty quickly.

1:25 pm First up was AE101 Intro to Aerospace Engineering. Seems like a pretty straight forward course. It doesn't seem like it'll be very hard. Even better, it ends in mid November instead of December like the rest of my classes. It should be fun considering we're going to be designing an aircraft (admittedly a somewhat basic one).

I then had a roughly hour and a half break during which the incident with the FinAid student workers pissed me off so much. I brushed up a little on my Calculus and Diff Eq for tomorrows requisites exam in MA441 Advanced Engineering Mathematics.

4:15 pm And my second (and final) class for the day was Fluid Mechanics. It looks like it'll be a fun class. And better still there are only about 15 people in the class, unlike AE101 with its 30+ people. The instructor has a bit of a thick japanese accent but luckily I'm pretty good at understanding heavily accented people. He had us stand up in the class, took our "mug shot" with his digital camera, and tell everyone a little something about ourselved. Funny thing was everyone in the class was an Aerospace Engineering major. Wierd.

After class came the long drive back to Phoenix which was interesting what with the thunderstorm just north of the Bradshaws and the rain just below Shnebly Hill. Stopped off at two different Staples originally to buy some engineering paper but ended up buying a new calculator, some replacement drafting tools and some composition books (at a steal of $1 each).

Guess I'll just buy the engineering paper at the ungoldy high price ERAU's bookstore charges for the stuff. I'll also see about why I can't seem to log into the ERAU online from home. I could before, but now I can't. Wierd.

Well, that's all for today. Hump day tomorrow.