I survived my first “event” at ISI. Every couple of months, the project I’m working on has what amounts to really big, week long demos of our project. These demos are for the funding people, which means they are a tad bit stressful on every one involved. It doesn’t help that the project starts at 9:00EDT, which is 6:00 local time. Getting in that early is not a good thing. But I survived.

And I got my first paycheck this week. Woo hoo!

Apollo 13 was on USA tonight. I’m convinced that every engineering undergrad should be required to watch either Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff before being allowed to graduate. If said engineer does not feel the need to go do something “because we decided to do it”, said engineer should not be allowed to graduate.