School Daze, Homework Haze

Oi! Six hours straight of homework is enough to fry anyone's brain, more so when it's a constant stream of Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Fourier series. Still, if I can get ahead in my classes a little, it will be worth the effort. Especially for my Advanced Engineering Mathematics class. Oh well, I still have some Physics homework to do, though it's really easy (for me anyway) and I can finish it off in a couple of hours max.

Despite the irritation over the FinAid and some annoying "kids" at school, I'm enjoying ERAU very much. I know I'd enjoy it more once I move up there, since I could actually hang out with some of my fellow classmates and devote more time to the various activities on campus. Oh, well. There's always next semester to make better use of the various clubs and activities.

I finally spent some time in one of the computer labs on campus and I must say that they absolutely rock! They make Phoenix College look decades out of date for software and equipment available for use. It's awesome.

While there I tried out some of the software like MATLAB and Catia. MATLAB seems to be a lot like Maple that I used at PC, but I like it much better. It seems more intuitive to me and much more easy to program. Catia is a CAD program used at the school and in the Aerospace industry. I thought it would be similiar to AutoCAD and Microstation. Boy, was I wrong! I'll have to see if ERAU has a class just on Catia, since I really can't see myself going through EG120 Graphical Communications with my ten years of CAD Drafting experience or maybe I'll shell out some money for a Catia book and try to learn the package on my own. That's how I learned Microstation outside of my usual work and eventually wound up training others on how to use it.