Life has this awesome way of keeping you super humble.
My humility lesson is staring at my face. It's name is physics 105.
I left class both Tuesday and Thursday totally jazzed because newsflash, "I GOT IT!".
Then I started to do the homework....
And now how am I supposed to figure out the x and y coordinates of where the shell exploded relative to its firing point without even so much as the acceleration of the final velocity of the shell? I mean seriously?
Or better yet, how do I find the speed a ball thrown at 37.4* needs in order to reach the same height the first ball thrown straight up in the air reached? And I don't even have any info on the velocity or acceleration of the first ball (which I could've used to determine how high it ended up getting).
Moreover... when am I ever gonna use this again?
Never? oh, ok... uhhhh why am I in college?
In all seriousness though I'm actually enjoying my classes more than I thought I would this semester. Physics is actually pretty cool especially once you "get it". You get this wicked sweet "I-can-explain-why-ANYTHING-moves" feeling. Granted it's only the 2nd week of school, so I probably won't be saying that later.
Funny enough the movie Despicable Me has cemented a physics term for me. When Vector is first introduced on to the screen he says "I go by Vector. It's a mathematical term, represented by an arrow with both direction and magnitude". I have no idea why I remembered this from the movie, but now every time Prof. Stokes says "vector" I think...
So far I've been keeping pretty busy. It's so nice to be able to have things to DO these days. Stressful yes, but I'd take stress over boredom ANY day. I got called to be the Relief Society Secretary on the first official Sunday here and that's been a good...learning (*ahem, ahem)... experience already. Last night the presidencies had a huge meeting at the Bishop's house were we essentially created a ward draft and filled EVERY possible calling with people. That was really neat to watch come together. Seriously, in 3 hours we built a ward. hollah.
I figure by now that most of the people already know Mr. I's true identity from his visit to WA... so I can drop pretenses now :)
Kyle's been great :) It's so super nice being in the same state... kinda odd sometimes. Odd as in "are we really here together now?" type of thing. Not odd as in a bad odd. Never a bad thing :)
We're actually taking physics together. He of course understands everything immediately after it's all explained. Sometimes I think I'm dating a sponge because he literally just absorbs information that well.... meh. So yeah, things there are going well :)
Ummmm lemme see..... roommates are fabulous! I'm living with both Liz and Carly again, but we got a freaking awesome new roommate named Hillary this semester. She's so cute! We secretly call her Hilla. Because it's kinda like "hollah!" AND because Liz accidently called her that once. It's like a cross between her nickname and her real name.
Yeah anyways....
The first weekend back we got a huge group of us together to go to the disco skate. You got a discount for dressing up! I forgot how much I liked roller-bladding...
This past Labor Day weekend was full of... well taking advantage of how little homework I had and how much free time. So I slept and read for most of it. A luxury I know I'm going to wish I had in about a week. Actually like right now.
Yup well, so that's life as of the first nearly 3 weeks of being back in p-town. It's crazy how fast those weeks have gone by. Time seems to be slipping past my fingers at a crazy insane velocity recently (yes, I totally just dropped a physics term. oh yeahhhh!). Maybe I'm like... getting old or something?
My humility lesson is staring at my face. It's name is physics 105.
I left class both Tuesday and Thursday totally jazzed because newsflash, "I GOT IT!".
Then I started to do the homework....
And now how am I supposed to figure out the x and y coordinates of where the shell exploded relative to its firing point without even so much as the acceleration of the final velocity of the shell? I mean seriously?
Or better yet, how do I find the speed a ball thrown at 37.4* needs in order to reach the same height the first ball thrown straight up in the air reached? And I don't even have any info on the velocity or acceleration of the first ball (which I could've used to determine how high it ended up getting).
Moreover... when am I ever gonna use this again?
Never? oh, ok... uhhhh why am I in college?
In all seriousness though I'm actually enjoying my classes more than I thought I would this semester. Physics is actually pretty cool especially once you "get it". You get this wicked sweet "I-can-explain-why-ANYTHING-moves" feeling. Granted it's only the 2nd week of school, so I probably won't be saying that later.
Funny enough the movie Despicable Me has cemented a physics term for me. When Vector is first introduced on to the screen he says "I go by Vector. It's a mathematical term, represented by an arrow with both direction and magnitude". I have no idea why I remembered this from the movie, but now every time Prof. Stokes says "vector" I think...
So far I've been keeping pretty busy. It's so nice to be able to have things to DO these days. Stressful yes, but I'd take stress over boredom ANY day. I got called to be the Relief Society Secretary on the first official Sunday here and that's been a good...learning (*ahem, ahem)... experience already. Last night the presidencies had a huge meeting at the Bishop's house were we essentially created a ward draft and filled EVERY possible calling with people. That was really neat to watch come together. Seriously, in 3 hours we built a ward. hollah.
I figure by now that most of the people already know Mr. I's true identity from his visit to WA... so I can drop pretenses now :)
Kyle's been great :) It's so super nice being in the same state... kinda odd sometimes. Odd as in "are we really here together now?" type of thing. Not odd as in a bad odd. Never a bad thing :)
We're actually taking physics together. He of course understands everything immediately after it's all explained. Sometimes I think I'm dating a sponge because he literally just absorbs information that well.... meh. So yeah, things there are going well :)
Ummmm lemme see..... roommates are fabulous! I'm living with both Liz and Carly again, but we got a freaking awesome new roommate named Hillary this semester. She's so cute! We secretly call her Hilla. Because it's kinda like "hollah!" AND because Liz accidently called her that once. It's like a cross between her nickname and her real name.
Yeah anyways....
The first weekend back we got a huge group of us together to go to the disco skate. You got a discount for dressing up! I forgot how much I liked roller-bladding...
This past Labor Day weekend was full of... well taking advantage of how little homework I had and how much free time. So I slept and read for most of it. A luxury I know I'm going to wish I had in about a week. Actually like right now.
Yup well, so that's life as of the first nearly 3 weeks of being back in p-town. It's crazy how fast those weeks have gone by. Time seems to be slipping past my fingers at a crazy insane velocity recently (yes, I totally just dropped a physics term. oh yeahhhh!). Maybe I'm like... getting old or something?
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| Liz, me, Carly, Hillary on 'Runway Sunday' |
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| First day of school! |
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| Disco Skate Night! |
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| Oquirrh Mountain Temple, Utah |
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