My meeting with my sponsors this morning went fine, by the way ( Read more... )

It has been a god-awful month. I've been putting in twice as much time at work only to have half as much to show for it. My research has been dragging to a halt, and every time I try to ask my advisor for help his only suggestions are "work harder." Classes are really tough and only one of my profs even tries to make the material any easier to ( Read more... )

I'm having a serious case of deja vu here ( Read more... )

So I'm measuring vibrations. I'm creating an electronic wave which feeds into a speaker, which converts it into a physical wave that goes through a specimen and eventually feeds into a sensor, which converts it back to electronic. In theory ( Read more... )

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Well that didn't take long ( Read more... )

This morning I tested some samples in a vibrations lab downstairs. We'd been having problems with really messy signals in our previous setup, and were hoping that by using a fancier sensor some of our problems would clear up. They got worse instead ( Read more... )

I'm really proud of the way my D&D game is panning out, and I just wanted to brag: ( snip )

First day of the new quarter. Continuum Mechanics is awesome, but I had this Prof last quarter so that's no huge surprise. Fracture Mechanics seems okay so far, but from the way the guy lectures I'm going to have to make a point of focusing if I want to pay attention. Plasticity is NOT canceled (there were six people in class today!); however, ( Read more... )

A prestige class I designed a while back that I wanted to see what you guys thought of it. The idea is to introduce some fighter pilot flavor to a magic-heavy culture. ( Click for More )