For several years now people have been telling me I should put pictures on my web site. Well, if you look closely, there is now a photos button up toward the top of every page. I’ve added several photos and albums, but I don’t think I’ve added any pictures of myself yet. If you really want to see what I look like, just let me know and I can send you a picture. You could also visit Stan Lemon’s web site and find a picture or two of me after doing a little bit of digging.

I think sometime soon I’ll be adding a few essays I wrote in composition class to the writings section of my site. Stay tuned for that.

Enough about the web site … following is a thing or two about what’s been going on with me lately. Here at MSOE, we are on the quarter system. Thus, this week is finals week. Monday I took my Calculus IV final, which was really just another test. My great teacher, Dr. Yaz gave us a major cheat sheet for the test and a wonderful review sheet ahead of time so that test turned out to be pretty easy. Tuesday morning at 8 am, I turned in my reflective essay for composition class then went back to bed for several hours to catch up on some much-needed sleep. This morning, I woke up at 7 a little unsure of what my Microeconomics final would be like. Sure, Professor Dawson read about 60 of the questions and correct answers straight off the final last Thursday in class, but that still left 40 questions unaccounted for. Well, I took the test and feel I did all right – everything seemed to be pretty easy there. Then, I worked for several hours with my GE-110 group on our dumb Lego Robolab robot, trying to make the thing draw stuff. We finally got the thing to draw a circle, a loopy star, and a Pac-man like figure, but the whole process was frustrating. I can’t wait to fill out the course evaluation for that class – I’m going to recommend against the use of the Robolab stuff in future sections of that course. I’ve worked for too many hours with that silly robot. And even then, it doesn’t always act quite as it should.

Tomorrow we demonstrate our robot’s drawing abilities (or rather, our ability to program and design a robot that draws dumb stuff) at 2pm. Then, we have to take the robot apart and organize all the pieces.

Friday morning at 8, I’ve got my CS-183 (Software Design) final. This class, with the exception of the labs, was pretty easy, so I’m thinking that final shouldn’t be too difficult. If I’ve got some free time at some point, I’ll try and get on here and post a thing or two about how that went.

Well I’ve written enough for now.