My grades

Official Grades

Class Description Units Grade Grade Points

EEE 445 Microwaves 4.00 B+ 13.332

EEE 488 Senior Design 3.00 A+ 12.999
Laboratory I

EEE 498 Pro-Seminar 3.00 A 12.000


Semester GPA: 3.830

Career Bound

I accepted an offer from General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, AZ. For all of you hoping I was going to move.. sorry, not this year. I entertained a few offers but this was the best. It will let me work on projects I can be proud of and gives me a little flexibility as I start my career, it pays the most, and I won't have to sell my house in this crappy market.
I still want to leave AZ, but it looks like it won't be for a little while longer.
Finals are this week so this is really all the time I have have. I hope to be able to make a real update soon.. maybe even post a picture or something!

Its that time of year

Its winter. The weather is nice, the holidays are plentiful, and the blue hairs are out in force. Sure, I live in one of the nations retirement capitals so I should expect to see them on the road but now we have been invaded by the most insidious of blue hairs: SNOWBIRDS!
I hate driving snow birds. You may be asking yourself how you could spot one for yourself.
Here are the basics:
Identify the slowest vehicle on the road around you. Notice how they are driving like they have absolutely no where to go, and even if they did they don't know how to get there, and to top it all off, they don't care when they get there. Yah.. its a blue hair. How do you easily tell a snowbird from a normal blue hair? Look for out of state plates. Not all plates apply here, Texas, Florida, and New Mexico usually just mean they are visiting. Their state is already nice and warm, they have no need to move to Arizona for the winter. The ones you have to look out for are Oregon, Idaho, Montanan, the Dakotas, and all plates Canadian. Be especially wary of Canadian snow birds. Not only do they have the same oblivious driving habits as other snow birds, but they also have an innate distrust of our measurement system and will often drive based on kilometers instead of miles. Sign says 35 mph speed limit gets magically turned into a hideously small number because they can't do the conversion in thier head and don't want to deal with "foreign" driving offenses.

Not dead

I'm not dead. I'm just busy. I feel as though I have been in a month long gauntlet, but it should be over after next week and I can get back to my normal pace of too much school and too much work and not time for myself. At least I should have time for sleep again... maybe.
How busy am I? I am waking up early on the weekend to work on homework I haven't been able to get to during the week. Seriously, its 7 am on a Sunday.