The Seasonal Update.

This has essentially become the symbol of this term. This emblem has become the logo (at least for now) of our design team.

I'm fairly excited about the project, which is described here on this fairly basic webpage.
(I'm struggling to recall any html as is fairly obvious from the page)

I spoke to a former supervisor about the project in an attempt to get a handle on defining some of the requirements of the design. The response was nothing of astounding. Within hours I had e-mails from my former supervisors and essentially everyone I had ever worked with or spoken to at my old place of work. E-mails ranged from opinions on operation, complaints about current tech, well wishing and offers to help. Of course, this project is now sitting posed to devour the remainder of what little time I have to relax.

This term at school has somehow managed to explode.
Of course, it's the result of our schools administrative genius. As the terms are setup, the last year was fairly moderate with respect to difficulty. As a result everyone in my class probably did better than engineering students in similar programs at similar levels of completion. Hence, when we apply for jobs during the middle of recruiting season (now) we have higher marks (as we apply with last years marks) then our competition and we all get really cool jobs.

Unfortunately, now we're paying for this favor with the prospect of tripping at the finish line looming over us. This term has been so brutal with it's demands for time thus far, I've only managed these handful of posts between sleeping, eating, and schooling. This week alone I got to sleep one night before 1am and I shattered my "at school time" record by setting a new high point of leaving at 1:55am after an 8:30am start.

In short I hate school right now, but it's nothing I hadn't heard before, all my friends that went through Memorial's program hated their home stretch as well. Ah well.

To finish off this discontinuous post, I might as well finally admit I've taken a full time job with Shell. This means my dream of living on a coast is delayed for the time being. The details as to my career plan are still being fleshed out but I figured a start at a company willing to offer me the exact job I wanted is a better start than most.

Already I'm finding it hard to tolerate the "bullshit" of school given that my entry into the real world is cemented. I hate the assignments that serve no purpose except to have something due for a course that is outdated and senseless for my career. Plus, the dreams of how I'm going to spend the next couple of years are intoxicating. I'm feeling the list is developing like this:

• Purchase a condo/house
  
• Get a Season Ski Pass:P
  
• Get heavily into mountaineering... ultimate goal to climb Mt. McKinley within 5 years
• Purchase a Motorcycle
  
• Motorcycle roads trips: Grand Canyon, Alaska, and Right down the west coast to Tijuana.
• Finally build a Millennium competition machine. (It can't be any harder than what I'm doing now...right? :P)

I've worked the economics as they stand now, with a 35% contingency (Thanks Exxon For the lessons in conservative economic forecasting) for cost overruns for a house purchase and stuff I want to do in my first year. Replacing booze consumption with outdoor Sports and activities I should save tonnes. Plus, without bragging too much, I'll have 5 weeks of vacation to blow :D

now.. I just need to keep School and these stress levels from turning me into some fat F%^&.