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Syracuse ho, EIT exam and other meanderings
It occurs to me that my friends must all be in shock. It's been nearly a week and I haven't posted one (or more) posts per day.
That should tell y'all about how busy I've been. It HAS been a busy week: GIS project due tommorow (it's done), Presentation due tommorow (done) and working hard on my Thesis Project (working hard or hardly working.. the world may never know ;) )
Actually, I was pretty naughty. I played The Sims: Hot Date before dinner last night. It was only for about two hours, but it was relaxing and, therefore, worth it.
And, unlike SOME PEOPLE, no one from ChaoticMUX is in my neighborhood. And it will remain thusly.
So, tommorow I'm off to Syracuse. I'm still a little nervous, but feeling better about the presentation, now that people (thanks![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kareila!) have looked it over (still waiting on Dr. Atkinson to look it over and give his comments).
Not 100% certain of the plans, but we probably leave Buffalo at about 10 AM (So no gym) and will be there before 2:00. I speak at 2:30. And that's the only important time ;)
Saturday, Jean Balent and James Craig speak (back to back) speak on their groundwater model. There'll be lunch served afters and we'll collect our stuff and go home.
That's the plan as we know it.
In other news, I got my EIT (Engineer-in-Training. It's actual name is the Fundamentals of Engineering) exam review book. Oi! I gotta remember stuff from BEFORE College..
The subjects include (but I'm not sure this is an exhaustive list. I'll check when I get home): Pre-Calculus (Trigonometry, Series, Areas and Volumes of shapes etc.), Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Computers, Engineering Economics, Engineering Ethics, Chemistry, Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Deformable Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Electrical Theory, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer and Materials Science.
It will, basically, be a comprehensive test in everything I learned my first years of college.
The exam lasts 8 hours... four in the morning, four in the afternoon. The structure is... everyone takes the same basic first part (the sections listed above) for four hours. Then you can take one of seven exams during the afternoon: General, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering. Looking over the review material for the PM tests, I think I'll end up taking the General exam as, while I do know some of the material on the reference handout for the Environmental Engineering exam, some of it looks completely new to me. Anyways, in six or eight years, I'll ahve to take my PE (professional engineer) tests and THAT will be in Environmental Engineering.
It IS a multiple choice test, but that doesn't necessarily means it's easier, just that I have a better chance of getting things right if I'm clueless.
So, anyways, if it seems like I'm talking more and more about this test, the reason why is I NEED to pass it in order to eventually become a Liscenced Engineer. So... test is on April 20th...
What else? I've started wearing my contact lenses again. I used to wear them, but I got out of the habit. That's good.. I'd prefer to be able to wear them. It's easier to wipe my forehead in the gym without glasse and I think I just look better with them on.
Can't think of anything else, atm, worth saying. Spent alot of breath talking about the FE exam. Well, not BREATH, but y'all know what I mean.
Check y'all latahz.
That should tell y'all about how busy I've been. It HAS been a busy week: GIS project due tommorow (it's done), Presentation due tommorow (done) and working hard on my Thesis Project (working hard or hardly working.. the world may never know ;) )
Actually, I was pretty naughty. I played The Sims: Hot Date before dinner last night. It was only for about two hours, but it was relaxing and, therefore, worth it.
And, unlike SOME PEOPLE, no one from ChaoticMUX is in my neighborhood. And it will remain thusly.
So, tommorow I'm off to Syracuse. I'm still a little nervous, but feeling better about the presentation, now that people (thanks
kareila!) have looked it over (still waiting on Dr. Atkinson to look it over and give his comments).Not 100% certain of the plans, but we probably leave Buffalo at about 10 AM (So no gym) and will be there before 2:00. I speak at 2:30. And that's the only important time ;)
Saturday, Jean Balent and James Craig speak (back to back) speak on their groundwater model. There'll be lunch served afters and we'll collect our stuff and go home.
That's the plan as we know it.
In other news, I got my EIT (Engineer-in-Training. It's actual name is the Fundamentals of Engineering) exam review book. Oi! I gotta remember stuff from BEFORE College..
The subjects include (but I'm not sure this is an exhaustive list. I'll check when I get home): Pre-Calculus (Trigonometry, Series, Areas and Volumes of shapes etc.), Calculus, Probability and Statistics, Computers, Engineering Economics, Engineering Ethics, Chemistry, Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Deformable Materials, Fluid Mechanics, Electrical Theory, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer and Materials Science.
It will, basically, be a comprehensive test in everything I learned my first years of college.
The exam lasts 8 hours... four in the morning, four in the afternoon. The structure is... everyone takes the same basic first part (the sections listed above) for four hours. Then you can take one of seven exams during the afternoon: General, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Chemical Engineering. Looking over the review material for the PM tests, I think I'll end up taking the General exam as, while I do know some of the material on the reference handout for the Environmental Engineering exam, some of it looks completely new to me. Anyways, in six or eight years, I'll ahve to take my PE (professional engineer) tests and THAT will be in Environmental Engineering.
It IS a multiple choice test, but that doesn't necessarily means it's easier, just that I have a better chance of getting things right if I'm clueless.
So, anyways, if it seems like I'm talking more and more about this test, the reason why is I NEED to pass it in order to eventually become a Liscenced Engineer. So... test is on April 20th...
What else? I've started wearing my contact lenses again. I used to wear them, but I got out of the habit. That's good.. I'd prefer to be able to wear them. It's easier to wipe my forehead in the gym without glasse and I think I just look better with them on.
Can't think of anything else, atm, worth saying. Spent alot of breath talking about the FE exam. Well, not BREATH, but y'all know what I mean.
Check y'all latahz.