| Today, I got a call from my dad. He was listening to the news on the radio whilst working, and he heard me! An interview I did made national news. I was really impressed. Not only was it broadcast via the airwaves, but it was also picked up the AFP news wire.
What I didn't know is that news wires are international.
So if you google my name, I'm everywhere! I'm in the Sydney Morning Star, the Asian Business Journal, and so many others. My interview was even translated into Indonesian. I think that's impressive. Somebody found my words so deeply insightful that they had to be translated into another language.
This is my first national radio broadcast and my first international news coverage. I'm very proud of me.
I'm trying to find audio of the interview (because we post them on our internal website). My dad said two-thirds of it was um's and ah's.
Well this started a googling yourself thing at work. For the people in the cubes, I came in third. But to be honest, most of the articles are just blogs purloining an article from another news source. It still counts.
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| No, I have no bloody clue why I'm awake at 4:55am. Really, I don't. I've only had 2 cups of tea this entire day, and the last one was about 8 hours ago. So, uh, not really that.
Really, only I could possibly end up nightshifted by accident.
This, mind you, is in conjunction with my body realizing that classes are over and there's just a pesky final on Tuesday. Which means, OMGSLEEP because I can seriously stop running all out like I did for two straight weeks and most of the last 3 months.
This leads to hilarity like Friday night where I shoot out of bed at 5:30am and stand awkwardly in the dark utterly convinced that I have to do something for 2.009 RIGHT NOW until my brain catches up 30 seconds later to the realization that, no, that class is over with. At which point I promptly collapse back onto the bed and pass out until 1:30pm.
Hey, it happens.
So, there's one final, and that's chemistry. The trick here is to a)study my ass off so that I can do the material in my sleep (I know it, I'm just not confident enough), and b)try not to fall asleep while studying because my brain is dribbling out of my ears due to the dumbing-down of thermodynamics. Seriously, the simplified form of the First Law is throwing me because I know it's incomplete because 2.006 drilled that into my head. And 2.008 taught me Everything I Need To Know About Polymers.
I totally did this in the wrong order. I keep running into the "why do I need to know this?" problem with the utter minutia of the course. It's aimed at frosh, and while I respect that, it's seriously hard for me to care because I know I will forget the vast majority of material as soon as I'm done with the test simply because it doesn't really matter. Everything in the course that was important to my future career has already been taught in-depth and at the level necessary for a MechE. Everything else I literally do not need to care about. Not to mention the utterly stupid way in which some things are taught.
In some ways, it feels more like a high school chem class taught college-style at the crazy-level. It does not feel like an MIT class in some respects, with some of the utter bullshit things they have us do. And, I'm sorry, but I finished high school 5.5 years ago. And I've sat through brain-blisteringly harder classes than this one, with lecturers who would fucking murder you viciously if you screwed up, not a man who I now cannot stand because of his ego. I'm sorry. I'm not a frosh. I can see through the bull and it quite frankly pisses me off, because dammit, the freshman sort of need the bullshit because it's what they're used to, but the rest of the classes are NOT going to be like that, and it teaches them bad habits. Not to mention I get punished grade-wise for not developing those habits.
Whatever. Tuesday and then I'm done with it as long as I don't fuck up.
Note to self: don't fuck up.
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