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I want to be an editor of a scientific magazine.
Okay, that was really random. I'm need to explain myself.
As you may (or may not) have gathered, I am a engineering student at the University of Maryland. A mechanical engineering sorta-junior, to be more specific. And I'm a very good engineering student.
But ... I'm not really sure if I enjoy engineering, per se.
I have a stack of homework to do right now. When I got out my books to set them on the table, I could feel my good mood fading. All that math and all that physics and all that work ... ugh. I don't want to be doing that all my life, even if I know that homework problems are vastly different from the problems I'd face working in a job.
Then I was thinking about computers, and I began wondering how much I really enjoyed writing code. I mean, sure, I was the MATLAB hacker in my Fluid Dynamics group (wait, are we meeting tonight? Oh no!), but I was pretty frustrated, debugging that code.
Then I thought of writing. And that maybe I liked writing. Sure, I've been griping about the papers for my honors class, but those were academic papers. Philosophical academic papers. Whereas these journal posts, I'm enjoying these, I think.
That's where I got the idea. And I know I'm a competent team leader (thank you, Boy Scouts of America!), so maybe I could pull that off. The typographical errors thing might be troublesome, but there are separate proofreaders, right?
Okay, so it wasn't well thought out. But it's something I should think about. I suppose I'll think about it some more after I've finished that one page on MEMS sensor devices for that other class (which I haven't even started researching yet, excuse me, I think I need to panic, thank you).
Well, in any case, Happy Mother's Day.
Okay, that was really random. I'm need to explain myself.
As you may (or may not) have gathered, I am a engineering student at the University of Maryland. A mechanical engineering sorta-junior, to be more specific. And I'm a very good engineering student.
But ... I'm not really sure if I enjoy engineering, per se.
I have a stack of homework to do right now. When I got out my books to set them on the table, I could feel my good mood fading. All that math and all that physics and all that work ... ugh. I don't want to be doing that all my life, even if I know that homework problems are vastly different from the problems I'd face working in a job.
Then I was thinking about computers, and I began wondering how much I really enjoyed writing code. I mean, sure, I was the MATLAB hacker in my Fluid Dynamics group (wait, are we meeting tonight? Oh no!), but I was pretty frustrated, debugging that code.
Then I thought of writing. And that maybe I liked writing. Sure, I've been griping about the papers for my honors class, but those were academic papers. Philosophical academic papers. Whereas these journal posts, I'm enjoying these, I think.
That's where I got the idea. And I know I'm a competent team leader (thank you, Boy Scouts of America!), so maybe I could pull that off. The typographical errors thing might be troublesome, but there are separate proofreaders, right?
Okay, so it wasn't well thought out. But it's something I should think about. I suppose I'll think about it some more after I've finished that one page on MEMS sensor devices for that other class (which I haven't even started researching yet, excuse me, I think I need to panic, thank you).
Well, in any case, Happy Mother's Day.
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