02/26/08 ( Read more... )

Pictures coming soon. That is all.

This has easily been one of the worst days ever ( Read more... )

Fuel: check
Oxidizer: check

Spark: check

Ladies and Gentlemen, Ben is ready to take on the world.

It seems like I'm having trouble getting my engines started. I'm pretty sure I have enough fuel, considering the long vacation I had, but for some reason I can't light those candles. There's a lot I have to do, but none of it urgently important, so I haven't done squat. Any remedies?

Happy New Year. I'm in FWB until at least Friday, so if you want to hang out, gimme a call. I have a doctor's appointment and some presentations to give at OWC on Wednesday (tomorrow) and I need to review some spreadsheet calculations for the hybrid rocket project, but other than that I'm free.

Another begins. Today is my last day working for Dr. Petersen in the UCF Gas Dynamics Laboratory. In a few weeks it will be the Texas A&M Gas Dynamics Laboratory, and I'll still be here at UCF. Hopefully I'll get that job in the Physics department, that way I can stay in the research world, get some astronomy/telescope experience, and move more ( Read more... )

Being done with classes. Although I don't know my grades yet, I don't think I did as well as I could have this semester. I probably got a B or C in Senior Design, but since I already bought copies of my transcripts to send to grad schools, it doesn't matter anymore ( Read more... )

-Senior Design Presentation - Done on scheduled time.
-Senior Design Parametric Report - Done with 1:43:40 left on the clock.
-Senior Design Notebook - Done with 1:04:23 left on the clock.
-Pro/E Final Project Report - Pushed back to Monday... I really needed that.
-ZERO-G experiment - Done with 0:00:16 left on the clock!!!Put me on the burner and ( Read more... )

-Senior Design Presentation
-Senior Design Parametric Report (~30 pages)
-Senior Design Notebook
-Pro/E Final Project Report
-ZERO-G experiment

It's going to be a looong 30 hours.