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I don't think I did too well on my first engineering physics exam. I had only really mastered about 2/3rds of the material, and most of the questions on the exam were about the iffy parts.  To help myself practice physics without killing a small forest of trees to produce engineering paper, I bought a whiteboard.  I ordered it from Business-Supply.com late Wednesday night after my exam.  They said it would arrive on Tuesday, but it arrived today already thanks to the gumption of Oak Harbor Freight Lines!

My initial impressions of this whiteboard are very good, and I am quite impressed with Business-Supply.com as well.  Not only do they have great prices, but great service as well.  If you are in the market for a whiteboard, I heartily reccommend this board from Business-Supply.com.

Well, spring quarter started on the first, and it was actually trying to snow on the way to campus (really, no April Fool's)!  This March went in and out like a lion.  I hope that "spring" begins to behave more like spring should.

Last quarter I got a A in my Java-based Data Structures course.  It was nearly a flawless performance--I missed 5 out of 1000 points.  In my Calculus I class I earned a solid A-.  And, in my final (whew!) chemistry course, I managed to pull out a B-, even with missing a fairly large chunk of the last three weeks of class.  While that is far from ideal, at least the ugly hack that is chemistry is finally over! :-)

This quarter I'm taking 19 credits!

• Calculus II (5 cr)
  
• General Engineering Physics I (6 cr)
  
• Computer-Aided Drafting I (3 cr)
  
• Microeconomics (5 cr)

I'm also going to be tutoring up to half-dozen students in C++ and Java (for CS210 & CS 211).

Ooooh.  The sun is shining!  Must relish it before it disappears!

In other news, I am going back to college (Bellevue Community College) to get an A.S. in Pre-Engineering, leading eventually to a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. I expect to get my A.S. in Spring of 2010. As of this writing, I've aced Macroeconomics, Engineering Graphics (a.k.a. drafting), and Fundamentals of Computer Science I(C++). I got an A- in General Inorganic & Physical Chemistry I and a B+ in Trigonometry. While not ideal, it is acceptable. As to the Trig, there were some holes in my understanding of algebra, so I went back and audited Precalculus I rather than moving directly on to Calculus I. That gave me a solid foundation to build on.