This semester has been a rough one. I suppose the main issue is taking Mechanics of Materials along with Transportation Engineering during the same semester. If any aspiring engineering students see the aforementioned course combination in their schedules, I recommend that you rethink your decision before you go mad. That is, unless the student reading this is an intuitive genius. I suppose in that case, there is no cause for worry.
I keep finding more that as time goes on, I need to take care of myself more. I remember when I used to be able to stay up late working on homework and I wasn't as phased as I feel now when I try to do that. There's the possibility that I am not remembering the past as accurately as I remember the nearly present moments. People always idealize the past. Hence, it wouldn't surprise me if I have always been frazzled by having to do schoolwork.
Then again, maybe I just wasn't born to be a morning person. The professors who schedule labs at 8:30 am in the morning astound me. Why should students be working on lab equipment when they are half asleep? There's so much talk about lab safety, but being drowsy during lab hardly seems safe. I should launch an awareness campaign against morning labs. "Don't let students operate machinery drowsy. Only you can prevent the loss of limb by a rotating saw blade."
I keep hoping that I will get all that I need to get done finished and I'll have a glorious break, but I'm obviously dreaming the impossible dream. I never run out of stuff I can do. On the upside, I never have cause to be bored, just overworked. Haha, is "overworked" even a term that exists for the Murphy side of my family? I don't think so.
But in any case, it is 22 days until Halloween!! I am really hoping to watch the Halloween movies again this year. I almost went and saw Paranorman simply for the Halloween music joke in the trailer.
I love the art of humor by allusion. I love smart humor that I understand. Recently, I saw the new Miracle Whip commercial that alludes to The Scarlet Letter and I love it every time I watch it. Literary humor just gets me.
Hopefully, I will be able to write something more this month, but if not, I'm buried under a pile of homework and shoeing the demanding cats away.
