Ah, the sweet month of November.
The first week has gone relatively well, my NaNo WriMo might have fallen behind by a day or two, but that can easily be made up this long weekend. School comes first, always. And speaking of school, I just had the latest night of my life for schoolwork.
If you had told me I would stay up until 1 trying to write a lab report at the beginning of the semester, I would have laughed at you. But I now see that it is in fact a reality. Late nights are the bane of my existence. Thankfully, it was the first time I had to resort to such drastic measures, and hopefully the only one for a long time.
But enough about that.
Satellite club has put the major project on hold for now, until the Goddard Institute gets back to us on the details. In the meantime, we're going to work on something called a CanSat. Basically, they give you a simple mission, you create the satellite from scratch, and they launch it up as high as they can and then the satellite "delivers" a payload to a martian surface (ie: back to earth). We were looking at the design requirements the other day, and the club was just in tears laughing. Compared to the big project, everything looks laughably easy. I can't wait, because the whole point of this project is to give new team members hands on experience. Which means me. Heck yes.
And in other news, I am one step closer to world domination. If you count being a Community Assistant in the dorms world domination. We had a small party for the engineers out on the lawn last nigh with s'mores and cocoa and a fire. It was fantastic, and I helped make the whole thing work. The CA's are starting to love me, especially after the trick or treating I did on Halloween for the floor. And I'm busy planning one more event so I can just rock the interview and resume for the application. If I don't get to be a CA next year, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Other than that, my week has been relatively uneventful. Long weekend ahead, I think some well deserved rest and tea and Star Trek is in order.
