Members only 205: The College Student Schedule Today was a very lore-accurate college experience. I left my room at ~8:45, and I didn't get home until around 10 PM. I spent something like 7 hours today on homework, and most of that on one assignment, which has been a yikes. I don't
204: Checking Boxes I'm only writing this one because I committed to one per day, I really don't have anything to say. A play-by-play of my entire day is boring, both to write and to read, so I'm going to skip it. Nothing really important happened today,
Members only 203: I hope you're well in these crazy times Politics. I hate politics. I don't want to have to interact with governmental bodies or systems, I just want those things to do their jobs while I live my life, but keeping them in line and keeping them doing their jobs well takes the involvement of the people.
Members only 202: License to drill! The "license to drill" is the official name for Cal Poly's "Red Tag", which is the entry-level clearance for our machine shops. I have mine, obviously, as well as my welding certification (not that I ever use it), and my composites tag, which I&
Members only 200: Standard Fare Today was pretty normal, honestly. Nothing crazy went down, I got my work done, hung out with my friends, and did my job.
Members only 199: The Cal Poly Effect "The Cal Poly Effect" is what I'm going to start calling the tendency for social connections at this school to quickly form circles. It's genuinely with almost every single person I know, I can make a circle with them and another mutual acquaintance. It&
Members only 198: Run it up the middle!!! The title is a joke about the College Football Championship game today. It seemed like genuinely every single play was just them running it up the middle, and the success rate was... mid. It turned out to be a pretty close game; I expected Indiana to win, but I expected
Members only 197: Asymmetric Warfare Today was very good. The title is something that maybe nobody will understand; it's a reference to the specific way that my dad used this term at some point. It's lodged in my head, and comes up a lot in my life at the moment, but
Members only 196: Wind Power go brrrrrrr Today was good! I woke up later than I should have (but sleep is just so nice), and ended up getting out of bed and rolling up to the EE building at like 11:45, to make sure our rooms for the day were unlocked, and they were!! I had
Members only 194: When fast go car vroom, and go fast car go The title is an excerpt from a silly internet audio that I quite like, it's a nonsensical sentence about how car go super fast. It was a pretty chill Thursday, my slate of classes today is not the easiest (that's tomorrow), but it is probably the
193: One Freaking day at a time Today wasn't bad, though the title kind of gives that vibe, it was fine, I'm just tired, and apparently sick, I've been sneezing and sniffling all day, but not too bad. I dunno, today was just another day (roll credits), and I would say
192: Bog Standard Today was pretty normal, which does mean pretty good, but the baseline has gotta be somewhere. Lab today went great, bowling was pretty alright, and I didn't have much homework to do, things were good. I am starting this one a early (it's 10:20), because
Members only 191: Groove (british accent) "I'm sorry, but you've thrown off the emperor's groove." Today was actually pretty good. I got a bunch of stuff done that I'd needed to do, and my classes were easy. I tried the baked potato bar today
Members only 190: Constancy As sort of a follow-up to yesterday's post, today was thoroughly mid. I had to get up early for a training at the wind tunnel, to renew all of the officer's certifications so we can use it this year, which is super important, but did it
189: "Bad Day" There's this great concept that's been kicking around in my head for a while that I'm going to call "the constancy of human experience". I'm not the origin of the idea, but I don't remember where I got
Members only 188: Absolutely rippin I've been getting better on my electric skateboard, and I've started to send it and "cut up" more. Cutting up is a motorcycle term (lane splitting), but it applies pretty well to the hordes of people on campus, and ripping around through them. It&
Members only 187: Nooks and Crannies Today was great! Italian this morning was great, as usual, and then Bowling was fun. It was our first day actually doing some bowling, all just on free lanes with no record. It was fun, and I did fine. It's been a while, and I'm still
Members only 186: Wed nes day I've been pronouncing Wednesday in my head on purpose for quite a while (like years), and I don't quite know what the origin is, it's just one of those things. I think it was probably originally a mnemonic for me to spell it properly,
Members only 185: The Joke Chart So, I hung out with some good friends I hadn't seen in a while (it's the 2nd day of the quarter, so it's been like... since the end of last quarter), and while we were doing anything but schoolwork (again, 2nd day) we came
Members only 184: Yearning? Being a person is so freaking complicated. I might elaborate on these feelings later, but I'm just gonna leave this vague for now, I haven't fully figured it out myself.
Members only 183: Twelve lockouts Today wasn't too bad, about what I had expected. Most of my residents got back today, so it was fun to see all of them again, and get back into the groove of things. I was on call again today (continuously from yesterday), which has been fine. I&
182: And still it rains It's been raining for like the last 8 hours as I write this, and it shows no sign of slowing. In tandem, and in response, I spent like 4 hours today working on designing fenders for my electric skateboard, and I got the front ones nailed down (final
181: Home sweet SLOme I definitely stole that title from someone's cheesy Instagram post, but I don't remember who's, so I'm calling it "inspiration" instead of plagiarism. I'm back! I got everything unpacked, and got my skateboard put back together, which is
