Pete and I are finishing up our Carabiner analysis for our Mechanical Engineering studies. Check out this sweet video showing loading.
Carabiner FEA Analysis from mikedidonato on Vimeo.
Category: school
Back in Business!
Good morning!
We’re back! This weekend (actually most of last week really) was pretty much non-stop work. Friday saw class, Saturday saw class, and Sunday saw 11 hours of work on an engineering project. So really, not all that super.
BUT, there were moments of joy nestled in between the mayhem. First, I had dinner with Schuyler and Darcy on Saturday night. We got a little dance dance revolution and guitar hero in before I headed out overwhelmed with exhaustion. Those people are so much fun.
Saturday’s class was rather exciting as well. The class I’m taking is ‘Management Failure Analysis’ We’ve been talking about big failures and what went wrong and how to fix them. This week we had Rear Admiral Thomas Atkin come in to talk to us about Katrina. Admiral Atkin was the Chief of Staff for the federal government’s response to Katrina. His commentary was great and, whew, what a cool guy. Tall, clean cut, and dressed in his coast guard uniform he walked into the classroom with an aura of authority. He was extremely well spoken and really knew what he was talking about. He discussed federal and state law during emergencies and some of the challenges that he and the others (federal, state, and political) faced as they tried to rescue the people of New Orleans. We discussed future disasters, the role of media, the organizational structure of emergency response, and some specifics to Louisiana.
It was totally awesome.
Home work?
Homework is tragic word. ‘Work’ is pretty much the polar opposite of ‘home’. ‘Home’ instills thoughts of relaxation, sleep, and comfort. ‘Work’ instills thoughts of stress and overwhelming to-do lists. Why would anyone ever want to combine the two?
Aww Man…
“Now we’ll pass it over to Roger for the weather. Tell us Roger, what’s in store for this beautiful Thursday?”
It’s Wednesday.
But when you’ve just come out of your nightly coma, you’ll believe anything that Mr. Radio tells you. Especially when, deep down, all you want is closer proximity to Friday. What a disappointing way to start a day! It took me a few minutes of wondering ‘did I meet my work deadlines?’ before I recognized that this morning Mr. Radio actually was wrong.
Unfortunately, this was followed by the realization that I don’t really want it to be Friday this week. My new semester is starting up so we’ve got a marathon of classes fast approaching.
Speaking of which, lets take a look at the completion charts.
sigh. That equates to 30 weeks of classes for the MBA and about 4-6 weeks for the MS.