Set for Spring
I moved back onto CBU campus last Friday morning after having just flown in from Peru the night before. Naturally, I felt exhausted from a day of travel, but excited to start a new semester of engineering and Resident Advisor duties. This semester should play out much better than the last one, as well, for a few reasons.
The first is that my engineering classes will be fewer and more project oriented. For too long I have been cramming equations and analyzing diagrams without much opportunity to put that information to use. With Engineering Design and Documentation, all juniors in the engineering department will be designing and constructing separate projects based on their majors and professor’s decision. I don’t know what mine will be, but I’m sure I will find it much more enticing than solving the unilateral z-transform of a discrete time signals. Another hands-on class will be Microcontroller System Design, which involves less theory and more configuring of small digital and analog chips. After only the first day of class, I can tell that I will enjoy programming PSoC and Arduino microcontrollers.
The RA job will be a more relaxing experience as well. With a semester of experience under my belt, I no longer feel like the new guy figuring out how to plan events or handle situations. I have new residents, too, which means new and interesting people to meet. I am also a part of the Woo Week committee for Residence Life which will be our major spring event for the semester. Already I am psyched from all of the crazy ideas being thrown around by the group. No spring semester would be complete, though, without Intramural Soccer, and as a Global Village RA, I am sure I will have residents ready to play the sport I love.
It’s only day one of the semester, but I can’t wait to see how it unfolds.
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