Return of the Engineer

It’s Sunday night and school is set to commence this week. I struggle to awake from my Playstation 3 induced coma so that I can focus on the tasks at hand for a week that follows what was an incredibly relaxing spring break. Unfortunately I have a lab report due tomorrow which erases any possibility of easing my way back into the normal routine so to speak. This lab report encompasses two separate labs actually: Velocity Measurements in a Wind Tunnel and Analyzing of Flow Over a Cylinder. For these two experiments we used, surprise surprise, a wind tunnel located in one of the many lab rooms at Disco Park. Disco Park is the cool name for Discovery Park, but I would not be surprised if many of you challenged this claim. I’ve also heard people call it “The Park”, which may be slightly cooler than Disco, but I’ll leave that decision up to you.

Maybe the decision would be easier if each were used in a sentence: “Yeah man, I’m at The Park studying for my test”, or “What are you doing tonight? I’m going to Disco Park, where all my Saturday Night Fever dreams come true.” Alright, I’m gonna make the decision right now: neither name is acceptable, stop trying to be cool.

This week also promises new and exciting material in my courses. For example, in my Heat Transfer class, I know we will begin to study the phenomenon of multi-dimensional heat flow behavior. I look forward to this because we all know that heat doesn’t just move in one direction, which is what the entire first half of the course taught. Above all, I look forward to the second half of what is my final semester as a junior. Hopefully my morning coffee will help with the walking coma syndrome I currently possess. I’m sure that it will. Thank you Folgers.