Thursday - Finals

That is all.

Tuesday - Posting from a new, lower altitude!

Wow, its been a while since I've posted, isn't?  Yep, haven't posted since Friday...  Well here's an update:

On Friday I had my final presentation for my Mechanical Engineering project that I've been working on since last semester.  Later that afternoon, I had my final exam for my ISE lab.  That evening, I went to dinner at Owens with a bunch of people from nerf war and TF2 night.  It was the last nerf war of the semester and everyone had a great time.

The next day, I went to the Gallipatia end-of-year picnic.  Later, I went to the last Poketech meeting of the semester.  We had a card draft and I won all of my matches.  I got two really cool cards during the draft: 

I got the one on the right during the draft, and the one on the left in one of my prize packs.

After Poketech, I went to the last TF2 night of the semester.  I had a lot of fun, hanging out with various people and playing a couple of rounds.

Not much happened on Monday, so how about we skip that, okay?  Okay! Onwards to Today!

 Well today was exciting for several different reasons.  I had my last Materials and Multivariable Calculus lectures.  Wondering about that "lower altitude" in the title?  Well today Brendan and I delofted our beds.  Here is what our room looked like before:

And here's what it looks like now:

Yep, lower altitude, get it?  Well I thought it was funny...  Anyway, later I went out and got some food with Todd, my roomate next year.  Then I went and helped him deloft his bed and move some of his stuff around.  Well, that's it for today...and yesterday...and the day before that...and the day before that...and the day before that.

Wednesday - Stuff!

I went to a presentation by GE today for their facility in Salem.  They do all sorts of power related things there including building controllers for wind turbines, solar panels, and traditional power plants.

They had a whole table full of components that go into the power controllers.  The big blue cylinder is a 9000 micro-farad capacitor that can be charged to 400 V!

This is a radiator used to cool diodes in their generator contol systems.  It is made of copper and weighs 50 pounds.  They sandwith the diodes between two of them with 20,000 pounds of force.  There are eight diodes in each controller, so that's 800 pounds of copper just to cool the diodes!

Tuesday-Nothing to see here...move along...

Sorry...

Nothing really happened today.  Seriously, compared to yesterday, today was boring.


I should have saved that hat picture for today...curse my lack of forward planning.

MONDAY - IN CAPS BECAUSE I'M SHOUTING

This weekend was Parent's Weekend and my mom came to visit.  We did all sorts of stuff.  On Saturday night we watched fireworks:

On Sunday morning we went to Roanoke and drove around to see some stuff.  One of the places was the Roanoke Star.

 It started snowing this morning so I decided to wear a hat.  I couldn't decide which one to wear...and things kind of...got a bit silly...

Tuesday - More pictures

Monday - April 16th