Long time no blog

It has been a while since I blogged up here. I usually like to do it when the mood hits, but at least once a week. I guess I've been keeping myself busy. After the offer letter came, I had to send it back and get all that paperwork moving and find a place to live. My wife and I want to get a house; and we are neck deep into that process as I type. More details may come.

I graduated !!! I guess I'm supposed to feel all-of-a-sudden different, but I don't. This time life has sucked that feeling out of it. When I was in high school, it felt all-of-a-sudden different. Like something had changed. I was moving to a different state (after moving into a hotel room), and soon after I would start college 600 miles away from my parents. When I graduated with my bachelors, it felt different, but not that drastic. I stayed in town, at the same school to my masters. But I did get married and move to a new apartment. Now that I've graduated not much has changed. I won't see my new job for more than a month; I'm still going through the motions of my old/current job. I'm still living in the same place; it's been two and a half months since I've seen the house we want to buy (and we're too shy to take pictures). What has got me down lately is buying the house and completing the job offer; trying to coordinate all the forms, deadlines, sign forms, get told by the school registrar to piss off (don't get me started!!), and talk to an increasing number of people about a start date.

I suppose I would not be so stressed about it, if it didn't cost so much for me not to work. Starting as soon as I can has put the deadlines on. I believe it should be possible get the house and start in January.

Well, tomorrow I'll get a school form I need for start date. That plus drug test results should allow a date to be confirmed. Once I get a date confirmed (which I really hope can happen before Christmas), the bank will be able to close !

Two

Two posts for today. Things have changed since the last post. I was really tired when I did it, and I was avoiding homework, too.

Since then, a recruiter called, asked if I was still looking... I said, "sure" since that answer only means that hiring managers will see my resume.

Then Albuquerque called!!!! I got a job offer for Albuquerque!!!

Then another company called.... asked if I was still interested... I said no! Since I now have a job offer I'm gonna take!

Tomorrow I'll get the official letter!!!

Famous?

Did you know that whenever people look at OSU ECEN website, they see my work?

http://www.ece.okstate.edu/research_electromagnetics.php


On that page, there is this picture of the reverb chamber me and my team built, that I took with my camera! I think that is sooo cool!!

Also, on the main ECEN page, if you refresh it enough, you'll see a picture of my HKN pledge class!!

And, according to google, if someone wants to "build a reverberation chamber," my senior design report is the number 5 result? (It looks like the most relevant link, too).

So, I would say that I am a little bit famous. (Although, saying my work has been published is a more accurate description.)

It's In!!!!

I turned in my thesis - 45 minutes ago!

I rejected the other OKC offer - 20 minutes ago!

I got an email from the other OKC hiring manager telling me how great a fit I am to the job and the potential growth for his organization - 3 minutes ago! (kinda makes me feel bad; I'm not how or if I should respond)

As of now, I have no job offers. I'm still holding out for Albuquerque...

HAHA, this is funny!

Click here to see a Dilbert Cartoon

I think this cartoon speaks to the fact that engineers and scientists must be good at communicating to everybody. However, I embraced math and science because it was so far from English class. For me, what I didn't like about English class was grammar exercises, (I'll freakin' scream if you try to make me identify the predicate clauses in a sentence). I also was irritated that there was a 'right' answer as the interpretation of the underlying meanings within literature. But now that I'm older, I have realized the importance of communication. And some part of me thinks I may be better at communication, reading, and writing if I had taken the harder English classes in high school.

Ahhhh

Today was a laid-back day. I went out for lunch. Shopping. Then washed the car. After I got home I played Colonization. Then I went back out and cleaned the inside of the car.

I am looking forward to having a house. Cleaning a car in a apartment complex parking lot is not very convenient. And having a job that ends at 5pm. I look forward to having evenings to clean the car and take it easy. After I was done cleaning, I took pictures. That was fun, too! I got out the tripod and everything... I probably looked like a real big dork, but I decided not to care. I enjoyed taking the pictures and cleaning the car.

Defense!

I did it! I successfully defended my thesis! I'm just a final thesis draft, one class final away from GRADUATION!!!

http://business.nmsu.edu/~finance/degree.html