Schools Out

I am now home from school for the summer. So this blog will go inactive until school begins again at the end of September.

ETEC Projects

Here are some screen shots of the different projects that I have been working on this past quarter. The kinetic flashlight was my personal project and the money clip/bottle opener was the team project.

Almost not a teen

It is stange how when you are are child things seem to go by so slowly and as you get older time seems to speed up. I wonder if it has to do with the energy levels. As a child, you are small and full of energy, always ready to do stuff. Moving fast if you will so time seems slower. Where as as you get older you become slower and therefore time seems to be moving faster. Who knows.

It it very stange to me how quickly this year went. It is over in less than two weeks. I am sure it was only a few weeks ago that I turned 19 and now here I am, in exaclty 2 weeks (14 days for those who have trouble counting) I will be turning 20 years old. I will no longer be a teenager. How strange.

Frustrating!

Stupid Computer won't let me upload any pictures! Ahhhhh!

It is Official

So up here at school it has been great. I have made some good friends and become connected in the community here in the dorms. The major role that lead to this was Sean and Jesse, my Corefa’s (Core Facilitator), or small group leaders. They are the leaders of our men’s bible study group in the dorm. CCF (Campus Christian Fellowship) is the club behind the groups here on campus. They have been around for almost 40 years and are very well grounded. To be a corefa there is a long process that involves being recommended by your present corefa, long application forms, an interview and to take a Discipleship class that they put on that goes for Winter and Spring Quarter.

As some of you know, I had expressed an interest in being a CoreFa next year. Beginning about midway through Fall quarter I began thinking about this and God has definitely led me in coming to my decision. All the complications and fears I have had He has addressed and given me confidence in Him.

So about 4 weeks ago, I decided I wanted to do it and began the application process. There was an application form that was most definitely the longest form I have ever filled out in my life and it involved a lot of questions regarding my spiritual life, past present and foreseeable future.
I had an interview and then yesterday I got an email informing me that I have been excepted (or whatever they call it). So next year I will be a CoreFa here in Eden’s Hall. It is a little overwhelming but it will be a great growing experience. The other corefa, (the one I will be co-leading with) in Edens is James Tomlinson, a guy I know from Core this year. We are very very different but hopefully we can each play to our strengths and let the other take up our weaknesses.

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Cinco de Mustache

Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo and as well as the wonderful celebration of Cinco de Mustache. All the guys from the core (who could) have been growing out their beards and yesterday we all shaved and had mustaches. It was pretty silly looking. We went out to dinner and a Mexican restaurant and it was pretty sweet, well, actually it was spicy but who cares! Those who couldnt grow any type of facial hair or choose not to were allowed to participate by wearing stickon facial hair. It was a blast and the food was amazing!

Classes

Classes! Wow, well this quarter I am what you might call a procrastinator. Thats right, I am putting off the work. Really the only one that will come back to bite me is the ETEC class.

For Dad, who wanted to know the projects, we have two in that class.
The personal one is to reverse engineer a kenetic flashlight and model it on Catia with some improvments. Then do a whole report on it.

The team project, to create an ergonomic hand tool is great in that we can actually make it but the usefulness is kind of low on my list. Just to clarify, you are assigned teams and you have to work on that team. Your grade is based on a lot of your team project. My team members are not interested and I have to keep dragging them around to get them to do anything. So, because of the apathy of my team, our project is quite simple. We are designing a money clip with a built in bottle opener that conforms to your body. It is a cool idea but I don't use a money clip or a bottle opener so that is annoying. Anyhow, those are the projects. Both are do in less then 5 weeks and I haven't even started modeling either of them. Ahhhh!

That's about it from up here. The weather is getting really nice and I don't have to have my jacket zipped up all the time. :)