Report Completed

My MEEN 360 full report-all 23 pages, 10 figures, 3 table, and 24 equations-is turned in. I finished up at 11:00 pm and it was due at midnight giving me an ample cushion. So now I am sitting here on something of a caffeine high from that coffee I had around 6. I think I will write the spiritual journey part of my Pine Cove application and call it a night.

Crunch week

This is it! Sunday starts the most important week of my semester. I have two full reports due, one on Tuesday, one on Thursday, a presentation on Monday, and a Greek quiz on Tuesday. If I can do well this week, my grades will be mostly set for the semester. Tomorrow, today by the time y'all read this, I will be staffing a land nav course for the Army FTX. I get to sit at a water point for eight hours. I am going to be so ready for next Friday to roll around.

Drill!

Another extremely productive weekend at drill is over. Mostly I did inventory and paperwork. This next couple of weeks will be busy because most of my major coursework is due next week. Right now my focus is just on staying close to being caught up.
Yesterday I went to the MSC to set up an interview with Pine Cove. Turned out they had time right then, so I did the interview then. The interview seemed to go well, so hopefully they will want me to work this summer. I guess I'll find out later. I'm going to an informational with Camp Ozarka this week to see about applying there, to help keep my options open. This is my last summer before I graduate, so if I want to work at a summer camp, this is my last chance.

Greek

My journey through classical Greek has begun. I just spent the last hour translating four of assigned six lines from the opening of Plato's Crito. The vocabulary is much larger than mine, and the grammar is rather complex, to say the least. I am finding at bit easier to get hints from the context, so hopefully as my skills increase, the translating won't be quite so hard.

I'm still here

Due to popular demand, a.k.a. Mom said I had to, I am again posting.
I have reached the start of the hump of this semester. I am beginning to get a little overwhelmed by school, received my first "F" test grade (17 out of 35 in Greek), and started to not care that much about school. It happens every semester and it just means that the end of the semester will be here before I know it.
In happier news, last weekend was fun. I brought up three friends (Brianna, Sarah, and Esther) for the football game. They all came to yell with me and Esther went to the game with me while Brianna and Sarah "sat" with Andrew. After the game my grandparents took the whole group to an Italian restaurant. After my grandparents went to the hotel the rest of us went to Brianna's aunt and uncle's house where we talked, made smores, watched "Iron Man", and then talked some more. I think I got to bed around 0230. All in all it was very enjoyable and nice to spend time with people much more like myself than here at A&M.
It is strange, for someone so ready to leave home and do my own thing, I find myself more attached to home, and the people and places there, than I ever have been before.