Bread Boards and Breaks
SO! Long time no see, but winter break is a month and I took that month OFF from work.
Well, sort of.
I did do some busy work for one of my teachers at home on my own computer, but it was paid and hardly counts. Actually, these kinds of things are easy ways to accumulate experience for your resume. I can now say that I was “independently contracted to use MS Excel to enter records for an online Knowledge Base.” Every little bit of experience helps.
This semester I’m finishing off my Biology Minor by taking BIO 124 – Ecology and Evolution, and getting the rest of my ISAT sector courses out of the way. This makes for a rough semester, but next year I’ll be able to focus on my concentration classes and…you know, graduating!
As for my standard activity update:
In my last ISAT 253 class (Instrumentation and Measurement), we were investigating accuracy and precision of instruments, namely voltmeters and resistors. We were working with breadboards (the green plastic boards on the inside of your computer) and little tiny resistors. The resistors look like little bug sized beads when you see them on computer breadboards. My lab partner and I, who shall remain nameless in order to protect her from a moment of nerdiness, took pictures of our lab setup on her phone!
Here is our beautiful little breadboard:
Outside of school, I managed to almost get snowed in at Masanutten last weekend. It was the first day that had a significant amount of snow, and my family was visiting from North Carolina and Virginia Beach to stay at a time share on the resort. For any potential JMU or Resort drivers: only 4 wheel drive can make it up or down the mountain roads in snowy conditions! While I was (attempting) to ski, my parents figured this out.
Hope everyone is still shooting for their New Year’s Resolutions! I’m getting back on a regular posting schedule, now that I’ve successfully adapted to my new semester schedule.