Pedro’s Blog
An end to my sophomore year
The past couple weeks have all been winding down to finals week. Most of my classes have been getting in a few last chapters for the third set of midterms and reviewing for our last exams. Introduction to engineering dynamics has also been a bit busy getting all the final pieces together, but, if anything, I’m staying calm and preparing to go home.
It’s over!
As of 9:50 this morning, I am done with classes and now all that remains ahead of me are finals. It has been a good year, maybe not quite as good as I had hoped, but I can’t complain about it.
The final IED project
Well, it didn’t work out how we had planned. Our craft could lift itself, but nothing else, so we had to present a non-working product. Most of our individual components worked. The judges that were grading the final projects still liked our product due to its difficulty, being it was a green mode of transportation and because we were ambitious.
Final presentation for PD1
We had our final presentation today in PD1 for our team’s development structure and I felt that we had done a great job. I had tried to stay calm and was doing fine until it was almost my turn to speak.
Some last-minute tinkering
After finishing my dynamics test, I felt uneasy about our hovercraft which was due next Thursday and that we would only have one more class day to work on it. I was in charge of making a throttle for the rear fan and in the previous class it failed to work.
The final round of tests
The last set of midterm tests is coming and then that will be the end of it until finals. This is my last chance to pull up my grades before finals and I could use some nice grades. I’ve had some trouble with my thermals class but not something I couldn’t study for.
Happy Easter!
I don’t have any family up here in New York, so when it comes around to holidays during the school year, such as Easter or Thanksgiving, I spend them with my best friend at her sister’s house. They are like a second family to me and they take care of me as if I was family.
So, they picked us [...]
IED progress
I had fallen asleep while folding cloths so I showed up late to PDI, but I had arrived just in time for the team meeting. Our project was beginning to look more and more like a hovercraft, but we were still missing a few parts and this thing is due next Thursday.
Crunch time
Throughout the semester, we have six projects due in modeling and analysis of uncertainty. They are all completed in groups of two to four, and so far we have been good on getting our work turned in. But, today we found out that a project that we thought was due next Friday was actually due today.
The exams: round two
My second round of tests has arrived. I have a thermals test tomorrow, a modeling and analysis of uncertainty test on Tuesday, a professional development test on Wednesday, and a dynamics test next Friday.
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