so i'm like 1.5 months away from being halfway done with college. it's been a whirlwind of excitement, exams, football games, retreats, homework sets, shaving cream, red hot lovers, and good times in general.
chemical engineering is great. i have no doubts that i picked the right major for me. my grades aren't great, but since i have no plans for grad school... i'm like whatever. as long as i can get a good job when i graduate! it's still up in the air what type of job i want and what career path i want to follow. i really enjoyed interning at P&G last summer doing manufacturing... sometimes i think maybe i had too much fun, because i don't think work is supposed to be so much fun. this summer will definitely be a very very different experience, but hopefully just as enjoyable. i'm working for Shell's exploration and production company, so i think i'll be doing some hardcore ChE calculations and simulations. i'll try to keep my cool... act like i know what's going on... and we'll see how that goes. i'm really excited to meet all the other interns. i was one of two interns at the P&G plant last year. the other intern was kind of antisocial too... so it was just mainly me integrating myself into their close-knit work community. this summer, with Shell's large internship program, i'm really excited to experience the intern community life, especially in new orleans! mmm i can already smell the beignets and cafe au lait at the one and only cafe du monde!
however. i have to finish this semester first. fluid mechanics is my favorite class; things make sense for the most part. thermodynamics, on the other hand, is a disaster. i've been raising my little white flag, but there has been no mercy. we've got people crying during exams and some of my friends are saying that if they fail and have to retake the class, they're just going to drop out of ChE because there's "no way in hell" they're going through it again. but i heard they pass mostly everybody - probably because they know that making people take it again won't help the slightest. my "origins of nazism" history class is interesting. i've always been fascinated with the whole wwii thing, but i'm sure i'd like the class much better if there wasn't so much reading! ChE research has been a rollercoaster ride, but i for sure don't want to do it again. if i know nothing else about my future, i do know that i don't want to do hardcore ChE research. ever again. my research is on the effects of water on esterification in catalyst-free biodiesel fuel production. it sounds impressive and interesting, but when it gets down to doing it, please let it not be me. in the next month, i have to do my paper and presentation. i'm not excited. it also doesn't help that my grad student left me (and the country) for a month, the hplc machine broke the day she left, and i've never written one of these lab research paper things before. oh, did i mention that i accidentally set the glass lab on fire? yeah. that'll probably be the highlight of my research experience.
my involvement in the society of women engineers (swe) is pretty serious now, and therefore very time-consuming. i'm the director of the corporate information sessions committee. i love my officers! they're all so great to work with. winter semester is usually fairly slow, since not that many companies are hiring then. fall is always craaaaazy busy, with career fair and multiple sessions most nights, but i'm optimistic that my young and relatively unexperienced committee will be up for the challenge. they'll have to be because i'm a volunteer co-coordinator for the career fair and i'm pretty sure that's going to be a big job as well. i haven't been transitioned yet, but i heard it's crucial that we get volunteers in the hundreds. i'm excited to get my own walkie-talkie the day of! there's something about the enormous-ity of the career fair that makes it quite thrilling to put on.
so i've been going to harvest mission community church (hmcc) steadily this year. it's really a great church and i'll never cease to be amazed by its intensity and what God has done there. it's really something special. we're currently in the process of purchasing the University Reformed Church (urc) building on campus! it's like literally a block away from where i'm going to live next year on catherine street. oh and my small group is super cool. woo getLIFTed! living intentionally for transformation! good times, good times. something that i do need to work on is spending time with Tempo (that's the name of the group consisting of people in my grade) and attending their prayer gatherings.
alright. my history reading response needs to be written. i should probably do that now. sigh. back to my life.
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