I know right? It's been quite a while since I've had the chance to write in here. Honestly things have taken off for me (in a good way mostly) and I'm incredibly busy.
I've now been in Colorado for a year and 2 months and that's pretty awesome. It's weird to think how fast time has gone and how old I'm not but how old I still feel....did that make sense?
Anyways, update on some small things:
1. Going into my second semester of Grad School this year and taking a class called "Space Habitat Design". It is being taught by my advisor and favorite professor, David Klaus (http://ecadw.colorado.edu/engineering/overview/Profiles/faculty_klaus.htm), who is an amazing professor. I had him last semester for 'Space Life Sciences' and really enjoyed that class and learned alot.
I am actually enjoying Grad school, which I didn't even think was remotely possible and I am tossing around the idea of continuing on to a Ph.D. But we'll see, it's still early in the game right now.
2. Taking the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam on October 25th, 2008. This is the first step in my pursuit of obtaining a Professional Engineering License. I need to pass with a 70% and I become an Engineer Intern (E.I.). Then I'll have to take the Principles and Practices exam and will have to pass that to get my PE License. Both exams are 8 hours in length......awesome
3. Modeling is going well and I will (hopefully) be in Men's Fitness Magazine around November. I also have some other big projects which I am shooting for, but not allowed to talk about right now.
4. I am an Open Water Scuba Diver now and currently working towards getting my Advanced Open Water Certification. All of this will lead up to me becoming a Master Scuba Diver.
Those are the most major things going on as of right now. I no longer work at the Indoor Windtunnel part time as I have spent my free time studying for class and for this exam. Same with skydiving; even though it kills me to not have jumped in like 10 months, I am taking time off to keep my priorities straight and ace these exams.
As far as work....well....it's been a hell of a year so far and not in a good way necessarily. I've really seen how people really can be in Corporate America and how some are only out for their own agendas. I've been put through alot of bullshit in the past3-4 months and it was all over shit that wasn't my fault or things that I had control over. I'll have to write a separate post about what's been going on, as its too long here.
Even though there's been bullshit on the job, it's more positive than negative....most of the time. I try to keep an open mind and thank the Lord that I even have a job right now. Hopefully it will get better though. I feel like I may have gained some respect for successfully bring an intern (from Michigan!) and getting him involved in our program and putting him to work and making sure he had an awesome summer, which he did. People doubted me because Neal was basically my age and they felt like I was too young. One thing stays the same though, I don't have time for haters nor do I give them the time of day.
I am still having an awesome time. I went to several awesome concerts this summer (Snoop Dogg, 311, Linkin Park, Chris Cornell) and got to visit some friends in LA and do some other cool shit.
Lastly, one new thing is that I started hanging out with the Pikes up at CU. Since I'm up there in class anyways, I felt that I wanted to try to have some kind of connection here at school. Well I've met a bunch of them and the girls that they hang out with and it's been awesome as I now have a new group of friends/brothers to drink with at school.
I've definitely grown in the year that i've been here and life is constantly a challenge, but I'm still here and that's what matters.
I promise to update this a bit more as the year goes on ha....take it easy...
Oh and I'm hoping to get back for some football games this fall। Right now it seems like it will be the Wisconsin game and OSU game.
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