Mother's Day

One day, a seed was planted in a pot,
And many days it spent there as it grew.
One day, the plant was moved into a plot
And given space to start its growth anew.

The gardener put her years into the plant
To help it grow unhurt and blossom bright.
She watered it and kept away the ants
That threatened it with illness, damage, bight.

And when the plant awoke with thoughts and words
She educated it in worthy things.
She gave it books, those wondrous verbal herds
Of life and wisdom, tales and songs to sing.

And yet, the plant's uncertain what to do
Or how to tell its gardener "I love you."

Random thoughts on a Sunday

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.