Tony and I went to a Halloween Wedding today. It was very different. I wish it would have been warmer outside (the wedding was outdoors) because it was so cold I could hardly have fun with the uniqueness of the wedding. Instead I was freezing and wondering when it was going to be over so we could go inside and warm up. Really took away from everything. It was interesting to see all the costumes and things.
Tony went as a character from Ghost Busters.
I went as the pink nightmare from A Christmas Store: (Ralphie in the pink bunny costume he gets from his aunt)
Not an eventful day. I had to give a tour at 1:30. It went well and got over quickly. Luckily it's been pretty warm out these past few tours I've given. I am not really looking forward to winter tours. I hate walking in and out of the cold and never wanting to take my coat off even if I'm super hot. Winter tours are the worst.
After giving my tour I went home and packed some stuff for the weekend. Tony came home and got me. We headed up to Swartz Creek. it was nice to see my family. The puppy is getting so big! She's super cute! :)
I do not have any clue what Tony and I are going to do tonight back here in our hometown. Sometimes when we come home, it's like we've never even left and we are still 17 years old. It's a great feeling, a eerie but great feeling. Sometimes we will be sitting on my parents couch and I will honestly forget that the last 4 years we've been gone and things have changed so much. It's nice, sometimes, to go back and remember the times when life was different. However, I think I like it better now. Actually, I know I do.
-JRA
I am feeling a lot better today. Thank goodness. I was beginning to think I may need to go to UHS and see if I had H1N1. Who knows, I really could have had it. But I didn't have a fever and I'm pretty sure that you HAVE to have one if you have H1N1. Well, according to all the emails i've been getting from the University Health System. O well, I'm getting better and hopefully I haven't infected too many souls. I stayed home as much as I possibly could.
I had class at 4:30 pm. That class makes me just want to jump in front of a fast moving train. It is boring and I just feel like "who cares" most of the time. I don't even plan on opening my own business and I don't care about copyrights and patents because I doubt that I'll ever be in the position to need something like that. Of course there is a possibility that I could need that and I suppose that the University wouldn't have incorporated the class into my requirements if it didn't serve some purpose... I guess time will let me know if any of that information will be relevant to the remainder of my life. (remainder is such a depressing word).
Now I am home. Tomorrow I have to give a tour and then I'm going home because I have to go to a wedding tomorrow. yes a Halloween wedding!!! I even HAVE to wear a costume. ha
-JRA
I didn't have lecture this morning. Only had 1 class. But lots of studying to do. Went to 423. I haven't been feeling good since Sunday and today was by far the worst. I just feel like someone hit me with a semi-truck and all I want to do is go to sleep. BLAH! I feel gross.
After class I went and studied with some people from my 452 class. We didn't get a ton of studying done, mostly just making fun of people and laughing. I really shouldn't study with people. It never goes well and we always end up off topic and laughing. Stupid Senioritis! :(
The exam was SUPER long. There was one question that I didn't even finish. I felt HORRID the entire exam too. All I wanted to do was go to sleep and get out of that stupid, hot, stinky exam room and go back to my clean apartment and climb into my comfy bed and fall asleep.
I just now got home and I am getting ready to just pass out. I do not have to be up tomorrow until 4:30 pm. I will get up before that, but just knowing that I have no responsibilities until then is a great feeling.
Good night.
JRA
I wasn't able to go to cleanroom lab today because I was sick. I would have died if I had to be in that lab today because my nose like won't stop running and my brain hurts because my sinuses are like infected. GROSS. SO i didn't go. Slept a little bit longer.
I went to the gEECS office to do some studying. I have an exam tomorrow for EECS 452. I feel much better about everything right now. I went over all the practice exams and feel good about the concepts that we've supposedly been studying in that class. That class just sort of doesn't follow any rhyme or reason at all. Weird.
Other than that I didn't really do much else. Came home and now I'm going to get some rest before another long, long day tomorrow.
-JRA
I do not like Monday's. For many reasons actually. One Tony goes back to Flint for the week. Two it's my longest day on the face of the earth. And three, it's just Monday! :)
Felt even worse today. I think I'm getting a cold. My entire face feels full. I know that's really gross, but that's how I feel. So that made Today EVEN BETTER. UG
Today was my mom's birthday. Gave her a call. I know I sounded dumb because i cannot talk like a normal person because I cannot breathe like a normal person.
Had class, has lab, had tons of studying to get done, and all I wanted to do was go to sleep.
I am now going to get to bed. I'm feeling pretty gross.
I woke up this morning feeling sort of crappy. As the day progressed I started to feel better. I'm hoping it was just dinner or something that made me sick feeling. Hopefully.
We went to Target. Got some Lights for my living room. It needed something. It's so bland. Then we ran across the street to Meijer to buy some groceries. I got some yummy Sushi. YUM.
At 2 pm I had a review session for EECS 452. I have an exam in that class on Wednesday. I dont' know what to expect at all. That class is sort of weird.
I came home once that was done. Tony and I spent some time together. He had some studying to do for his class. So I just surfed around on the internet while he did that. I made dinner and he did the laundry. I love our Sunday nights. They are so cute and wonderful.
I need to get some sleep. Long day tomorrow.
-JRA
I love Saturdays. Especially when Tony and I can lay in bed for a long time and do not have any obligations to get to. We didn't have a football game to go to today. We sold our tickets to Olga. So she's there. Sort of nice because it was really cold and rainy today.
We watched a movie and some TV. We made BLT's for dinner. I was getting the lettuce ready. it wasn't the best head of lettuce. Sort of brown in places. So i decided to cut it in half. There was a HUGE worm inside of it. It scared me to death and grossed me out a lot! I decided that it was best to get rid of the lettuce and have BET's. Instead of the L's we made some eggs and put them on the sandwhich. It was SO good. Yummy.
Now I've getting ready to go clean up the dishes. I hate doing dishes. But since Tony cooked, I suppose I will do them. I always end up doing the dishes, even if I cook. haha. After dishes I think we might put in another movie and call it a night.
Possibly tomorrow we'll do something more productive. :)
-JRA
Worked on a lot of 452 today in the lab with Kevin. We got all of our report done for lab 5. I can't wait to be done with the lab for that class. It's so much work. We have a lab report, prelab and homework assignments all due every single week. It sucks and takes up way to much of my time. I am thankful that I'm only taking 12 credits. Otherwise life would be much worse.
I missed Tony a lot tonight. Friday nights suck a lot with out him down here. Also I didn't have to work today so I had a lot more down time. Don't really have homework so tomorrow will be fun. We don't have a football game to go to tomorrow cause we sold our tickets to Olga. So we can have a very cuddly day tomorrow. I cannot wait.
Now i am just reading blogs and drinking tea. I've really started to drink a lot more tea lately. I love it. It's so warm and mmm. I love it. I think tonight is going to be a fun night. I'm going to catch up on some TV shows, and after that I am going to do some writing.
Will write later.
It was really nice to sleep in today. Yesterday honestly took all of my energy and there would be NO way I could have gotten up before 10 am this morning.
I really didn't have much to do today. Tony was here. We hung out. Watched some movies and some TV. I didn't got to my EECS 496 class because it's SOO boring and a big waste of time.
I haven't heard anything back from Stryker today. I didn't really expect to. Most people that I've been reading about online said that it takes about 2 to 3 days to hear back from them. Since mine's probably going to include the weekend, I think I'll probably hear back Monday or Tuesday if I made the cut.
I really think that it'd be awesome if I passed. Seems like most people that try don't. Can't wait to just know. I want a job so bad. I am soooo nervous that I won't find a job. I'll graduate and have no idea what I'm doing with my life. To some people that would be awesome and exciting, but I'm a very structured person and I always NEED to know what I'm doing in the future. This is becoming more and more of a reality as the time passes. I'm so scared and so anxious.
-JRA
I'm pretty sure today was the longest day of my life.
First off I had class early this morning. Well early in the sense that I stayed up too late last night and it was difficult getting up at 9:30 am. Class from 10:30 to 12:30. I had an hour to study and make my reference sheet for the exam.
At 1:30 I had my 423 exam. It wasn't that bad. I think I did pretty well on it. That lasted till 3:00.
I came home after my exam and got on the computer to just refresh my memory with the type of questions that the Gallup Profile for stryker had. That went well. Did that for about an hour and a half and then I just drank some tea and tried to stay calm while I waited for the interviewer to call.
At 4:45 the call came. Answered my phone and then proceeded to answer about 150 questions that assessed my personality and my personal talents. The process was very tiring. I finished the "test" in about 40 minutes. The lady initially told me it would take an hour. So I was suprised when she told me that I had answered all of the questions. At the end of the interview the lady told me that she really liked my answers and that she was going to talk with Stryker tomorrow about my results.
I really hope that what she said is a good sign. I am so nervous that this is going to be my last step. :( I've read so much about the Stryker interview process and this step seems to be the one that weeds the most people out. It sucks. I answered all the questions honestly and I suppose that if I don't get it then I'm not a good fit for the company. If that is the case then I don't know why I'd want to waste anymore of my time or the companies time realizing that I didn't like it there. So over all I really think this step in the interview process is necessary and a good tool.
I just pray for a call back! :)
I'm going to sleep
-JRA
Tony came over early this morning. I missed him a lot. We cuddled together. Then got ready an went shopping. We went to a few different places.
I got my hair cut yesterday. The lady took quite a bit off, about 4 or 5 inches. It feels and looks SOOO much better. I love it.
I pretty much spent the whole day with Tony. I don't know what my life would be like if he weren't part of it. I suppose I just won't think about that.
At 7:30 my dad came home and we headed to Ann Arbor. There was a HUGE traffic jam. I just got home like 10 minutes ago.
Now I'm cranking music, drinking tea and studying my butt off for tomorrow's exam. I really did slack this study break. Probably shouldn't have went home. But i had a lot of fun! :)
Going to go study till I pass out!
-JRA
Tony had to work a 48 so I had the whole day to myself. Well sort of. My family was gone until about 2 pm and then they came home from school/work. When they got home I spent some time with them. It was nice. I studied for my 423 exam and read about what to expect for my Gallup Profile Interview. My mom and I went to Joann's to get some fabric an stuff. I am going to make another purse. A fall color one.
I am super nervous for this next interview with Stryker. I really, really want to get a job with them. Seems like I'd fit in well with the company culture and their products are pretty impressive, but most of all they create things that are really going to make a huge impact in people's lives. Other companies that I could work for don't do that. Take for example, some consumer electronics company... no one REALLY needs those things and most of them don't do anything special but entertain us,(like displaying images that melt our brains), but Stryker makes things that really HELP people. I suppose that's what I want. Deep down I DO care about people and I DO want to help them. Seems like a fitting place for me... I don't have to directly help people, but I know I'm making an impact. :)
Well I feel like going to work on a new sewing project with my mom.
-JRA
Sunday's have become my favorite day of the week. Today was fun. I went with my mom to JoAnn's because she was buying a new sewing machine. It is so nice. I really hope that she enjoys it because she was like freaking out to buy it because it was $300. We got it back to the house and got it all set up. Helped her thread it and stuff. We played around with all the different stitch settings. While my mom made dinner I started to make a purse. We finished it together. It's big, but I really like it. It's green! Pretty!. Well I'm really sleepy.
Good night
-JRA
Tony came down this morning. We hung out for a while and decided not to go to the game because he was super tired, it was really really cold outside, an I wanted to cuddle with him. I love him so much. I can't even begin to explain it to you. We cuddled. He nappe. I got all my stuff ready to go home for fall break. We ventured home to creek after a while and got home at around 6:30 pm. Pretty much just hung out at my parents house. It was nice. I always like going home... well sometimes.
I'm not sure what I'm doing this break. Mostly studying for the up coming exams I have after I get back to Ann Arbor. I also need to formulate some plans about my 452 project. Not sure what's going on for that. Whatever.
I think I'm just going to go get some sleep. REALLY tired.
later
-jra
I had class at 10:30 this morning. It was a pretty big waste of time. That lecture is almost pointless to attend because the lecture slides are very detailed and all that happens during class time is the professor READS the slides. She doesn't even make any comments about it. She just straight up reads it. WORD FOR WORD. It is certainly something that I can do in my own time and believe me, I would LOVE to be able to sleep in until 11 every Monday Wednesday and Friday. haha. But since I am paying quite a bit of money to attend this fine school, I woke myself up and went to class. It was like story time, except this story isn't funny, or sad or happy, its a boring mix of DFT's and their Fast algorithms and numerous other complicated mathematic transforms that I don't really care about.
After class was finally over, I went to the library to do some reading for my EECS 423 class. I love that class. The material is so interesting and I want to do that for the rest of my life. Too bad I've realized this quite late in my college career and I only have one semester left. :( I still am considering taking 425 next semester. Even though its ANOTHER MDE and I don't HAVE to do that to myself.... we'll see how I feel at the end of this first senior design project.
At 1:30 I had to be at work to give a tour. Of course it was raining, so that meant that everyone on my tour was silent and miserable. No one asked a single question. I was worn out by the end of the tour because I had just spoke for straight for the last 1.5 hours and cracked myself up over my lame ass jokes in attempt to get a SOUND out of my group. It was very very sad.
Now It's Friday night and I don't really have much to do. Tony is coming down tomorrow. We are going to attend the game and then after the game we are going to head back to Swartz Creek for the nice long Fall Break! :) YAY. I love fall break. I like Thanksgiving Break even more because after that break there's only like 2 weeks of winter classes left.
I cannot believe how quickly this semester is going. Senior year is going to be over SO fast. And then what.... REAL LIFE? OMG
Night
-JRA
I didn't have a Segway meeting today. Had a meeting with my 452 group. We met with the professors so they could give us some feedback on the project proposal that we've been making. They pretty much told us that our project is going to be hard and that we have quite a bit of work to do. We want to have a cool user interface with graphics and stuff. So since James and I know VHDL pretty well, we are in charge of all that. OMG! haha It should be cool though. I mean that stuff is all pretty neat and it will make our project look snazzy. All the hard part(DSP) will be done on the DSK in C coding. I'm not so HOT when it comes to coding in C but a few of the people in the group are so they are going to work on it. SWEET.
After the meeting we all hung out in the lab for a while getting some stuff done. At 4:30 we all had EECS 496 class. That class is a large waste of time and I don't really understand why I have to take it? It really doesn't make any sense? And it seems like it's mostly geared toward Software people and that's NOT me. ha.
This afternoon I set up my Gallup Profile Interview for Stryker. I did well on my initial interview so I have made it to the Gallup personality assessment. I've read quite a deal about it on the computer and I'm pretty nervous for it. But from the things I've read, it's either you got it, or you don't. If you "pass" then you are a good fit for Stryker, if not then you don't pass and aren't a good fit. I suppose I wouldn't want to pass it and not really be a good fit for the company and waste a bunch of my time and theirs interviewing and realizing that this place is NOT for me. Or worse actually get the job and then realize how its not right. So in a sense I'm not really nervous for the interview, however just because it IS an interview I'm nervous. haha.
Well I am going to go get some stuff done and get ready for tomorrow. Should be a pretty chill day tomorrow. Just class and a tour. And then I have fall break! :) YAY
Good night
-JRA
Another long day of class followed by a boring night of "me time". I'm sick of my daily schedule. I need to do something new. Tomorrow I'm going to to gto get more done. Got my lab report back in 423. I got a 97 on it. Great feeling. I honestly didn't think mine was that complete and thought that I had made quite a few errors in the calculations. Apparently I did it correctly and everything was right. :) The average on it was about a 80 so I did very well. I really do enjoy that class as well as the work in that class. None of it bothers me and it all seems worth while. I am learning so I'm fine with it. Other class that I have this semester on the other hand, I feel like they are all a waste of time.
Pretty lame that an A can make everything feel better.
I need to get all the stuff ready for the gEECS info session that we are holding. It's for some software company I've never heard of, but whatever?
Well I am sleepy. Tony and I are fighting because I want a more solidified relationship. I'm sick of this long distance stuff. He's hardly ever here. But I guess its sort of my fault to beacuse I never go back to S.C. to hang out with him when he's there. I shouldn't even be pressing this. He's here all the time. I just can't wait to have a life with him. I am anxious and need to have patience. I think that's the biggest flaw in my personality. Patience. I'm going to work on that.
I understand that its been almost a month since I last updated. I apologize, but you must understand that I'm currently in my senior year of college, I have a major design project going on, interviews, and then labs and homework to take care of after that. When I do have a SPARE second I try to talk to my boyfriend and have some what of a social life. That being said, I have little time to spend updating cyberspace with the intimate details of my busy life. Right now, I'm procrastinating doing all of the above.
I have had 3 interviews. 2 phone and 1 face to face. 2 of them were with a company called Stryker who I found on a very lengthy search for employment in the state of Michigan, and the other was with GE Aviation Systems. Nothing special in this area right now. Haven't heard back from GE(it was conducted yesterday). And I have to take a Gallup Personality ("Life Themes" they call it) assessment before I move on to the next step in that interview process. Next week I have an interview with Medtronic.
School has been rough. I work a lot and hate it. However I procrasitnate everything until the day before its due which is certainly kicking me in the ass. I need to step up my work game! My MDE is going alright. Sorta weird. I never understand how the lecture have ANYTHING to do with what is going on in the class.... such is school though.
I can't wait to have a job and know what's going to be happening with the rest of my life. I hate this in between period and having no clue and being NERVOUS as hell about getting a job and starting "real life".
I have things to get done.
Later
-JRA
