Post Grad

So today... well yesterday I guess now was the last day of classes for spring. I am overjoyed. I honest never though this day would come. Every since we started learning about steel in MSE I wanted it to be over. That was the most boring class I've ever taken. I just hope I pass the final and never have to think about it again... well actually even if i didn't even pass the class I'd never have to think about it again because its nothing like my major. I am SOO glad I'm an electrical engineering major.

Other times I can't say that however. For instance, today we started working on the software for the research project that I'm working on. OMG I understand why I didn't become an fricken CS major, but I still feel like I am one. I mean I'm sitting there trying to decipher this VHDL code that has NO comments and very minimal explanation. It was hard. I will honestly say I really haven't even touched the surface on everything there is to know about EE. I don't think even if I spent my entire life learning I would/could learn everything. For one things change daily and for two, there is just TOO much. But I do feel like from this research I'm learning more than I EVER have in any of my classes. I feel like this is more beneficial than any EECS class I could take(with the exception of the lab based classes like 452 and 423). Really just searching around on the internet, reading about how others have figured things out, writing my OWN code and creating something that I thought up really is better than doing a bunch of homework problems.

I was thinking today about high school and senior year Calculus. I remember we all had to take this quiz because everyone(well not me) was doing poorly on a subject. My teacher told me I didn't have to take it because I "already knew everything". High school gave me a big head. I honestly think I though I knew EVERYTHING there was to know in the world. There wasn't a thing that I thought I needed to learn. Now here I am entering my senior year of college and I feel as if I know nothing. There is SOOOOO much I need to learn and want to know. I really LOVE learning and that feeling of "getting it" after trying so hard and having something work. It makes me happy.

I think that the rest of my life it's going to be like this. I'm always going to have to keep on my wikipedia reading(haha) and never will there be a day when I know every thing. Sorta scary because I thought(back in high school when I was a genius) that after college I would know all I needed to know for the rest of my life/career. I was so stupid come to think about it. How did I honestly think that things would just be DONE the day I stepped out of the Stadium with my new found Michigan Education... I don't know. But I can remember that feeling.

Its hard for me to believe that I've been done with high school for going on 4 years and I'm going to be done with college in less than a year. After that Life starts. Everything from there on out will be up to me and I have no concrete plans for after college. Hopefully a job!! :) And of course getting married. But other than that, life will happen I suppose.

I need to go to bed, I have work to to do tomorrow... and a TON of reading.
Later
-jra