Thursday-Winter has arrived in Blacksburg

The past couple of days have been pretty windy, and when I woke up this morning I found that the leaves have been blown off the trees.  To me this signifies the unofficial end of fall and the start of winter.  Instead of warm reds, oranges, and yellows, the trees are gray and brown.  Although the temperatures haven't changed much, it certainly feels colder.

This morning I went shopping for my backpacking trip this weekend.  I'm meeting up with my troop to backpack up to McAfee's Knob.  I'll be leaving tomorrow at around 8pm.  I'm going to try to post tomorrow, but between packing my backpack, taking a physics test, and writing an Engineering Culture essay, I'm not sure there will be enough time.  I will be posting on Monday for sure with pictures from the trip.  Here's a picture of the McAfee Knob overlook that I found online:

After getting back from Kroger, I finished my Calculus extra credit assignment, which was to explain how use the shell method to find the volume of a revolved function.  After that, I worked on some physics problems with a classmate to prepare for the test.  Then I went to my calculus lecture, where we worked on some calculus problems to prepare for the test.  We also went over Simpon's Rule, which is a method of approximating the area under a curve.

Tonight was actually a football night, and Virginia Tech beat Georgia Tech 37 to 26.  During the game I had to take a break to go outside, though.  Remember how I said it felt like winter?  Well nature decided to play along; at about half-time it started to snow! It continued snowing for about an hour.  Unfortunately, it was 37 degrees outside, and all of the snow melted almost instantly.  It was fun though! Here's a blurry snow picture!

Thats all for today.  Hopefully I'll see you again tomorrow, but if not have a good weekend and I'll see you on Monday!