Grad School

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Apparently I've neglected DreamWidth for an entire month. Oops!

As one might guess from the title and my previous posts, grad school has been keeping me busy. Mostly my propulsion system design class, but the others have also been contributing. That will probably only get worse, as antenna systems finally starts assigning homework. Oh, well, I knew what I was getting into.

Fall break started today, and I was still on campus, because some of my classmates from our space design capstone were presenting at a mini-conference the Astronomy Department was putting on. I'm glad I stuck around for more than just our presentation, because spending time around space-focused people and programming is good for my enthusiasm. (Airplanes are cool and all, but they don't excite me in the way rockets and spacecraft do.) I even think some of the discussion during the poster session kicked my brain into synthesizing some of my thesis ideas together into something that might actually work—though I'll have to talk to some of my professors about that sooner rather than later.