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About Me Member Deviant of Many Talents Chris Shake22/Male/United States Recent Activity Deviant for 4 Years
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Starting Grad School

Mon Aug 31, 2009, 3:00 PM
  • Mood: Neutral
  • Playing: Freelancer (Discovery 4.85)
So, now I'm at RPI, and had my first day of classes.
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What sort of school has classes for 80 minutes two days a week, and schedules them starting every hour? Seriously, I've got 40 minute breaks between each of my classes, a complete waste. Round trip walk to my room is 30 to 35 minutes, and it's not like sitting on the quad is going to be a good option come winter. There's also a severe lack of benches inside the buildings.
[/rant]

One of the professors I already know I don't like, the short round guy that loves to talk about his accomplishments, and he's lecturing by showing PDF slides of handwritten notes he made a few years ago. Doesn't help that the first day was all stuff that I'd learned in a 200-level physics class back at Bucknell (this is a senior+grad mechanical engineering class).

Other than that, it's all going well enough. The other two profs I've had were good, and I've got the 4th one tomorrow. I also don't have any classes before 11am, so I'll be able to get research done in the mornings once I find an adviser and project.

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  • Current Residence: Central NY
  • Interests: Chainmaille, Programming, Theater tech, ΣAM
  • Favourite movie: Doctor Who, Penn&Teller: Bullshit
  • Favourite band or musician: Orbital
  • Favourite genre of music: Electronic
  • Favourite artist: Van Gogh
  • Favourite poet or writer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Favourite photographer: The people controlling the Hubble Telescope
  • Operating System: winXP main machine, archlinux headless fileserver, and an OS X powerbook
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod
  • Shell of choice: xfce4
  • Wallpaper of choice: The Sombrero Galaxy from hubblesite.org
  • Skin of choice: that stuff that's all over my body, I've grown attached to it.
  • Favourite gaming platform: PC
  • Favourite cartoon character: xkcd
  • Tools of the Trade: Pliers, Bolt cutters, a fractal generator, and POV-Ray.

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:iconmiro-kaisou:
FGS i miss you ;^;

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Lovely icon made by =prismchan.
:iconher-charms:
Thanks for the watch!
:iconnarrina:
Hi there! Thanks for the watch!

Lol, it seems like just about everyone from TRL and MAIL are over here. :)
:iconawchains:
Thanks for the watch!
:iconkitten-of-woe:
I have included you in my feature news article Celtic and Norse Knotwork. Please :+favlove: it so that more people can enjoy this fine art by you and the other artists. :thanks:

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:iconladymoonglow:
Thanks for the :+fav: on my ring! I so wish it were more stable though. It would be awesome as a necklace but I am afraid that will be many wasted hours if I attempt such a feat. Maybe in another metal......
:iconmiro-kaisou:
jeez your stuff is intricate oO,,
:heart:

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:iconprilandryn:
Thank you for the favorite.
:icontar-vanimelde:
thankee for the fav on structure :aww:

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:iconwillowdancer:
I love your work with chainmail.

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