Walkin' In High Cotton

Since you last heard from me, a lot of testing things have happened. I apologize for not writing about it sooner; it's just happened that my head has felt like it's been stuffed full of cotton since the evening of the FE exam. I'm going to blame part of that on not enough sleep, part of that on the smoke smell permeating my room, and the other part on the usual wild temperature fluctuations at this time of year. I'm getting better. I'll press on.

Friday night was interesting. The FE only accepts four or five different models of calculator. I didn't own any of the right kinds, so in my silly disconnectedness with reality, I assumed that most of the stores would still have those types of calculators on the night before the big test, when hundreds of engineers were in the same exact situation I was. Needless to say, after a night on the town and the Juxta concert, when we went to Wal-Mart, there were no calculators. Thanks to Gina, Sarah, and Katie, though, for keeping me in a good mood. Sarah called the Radford Wal-Mart, who had one of the models I needed, and Gina drove us all down there for a last-minute late-night calculator-fetching trip.

The eight-hour FE exam was about as fun as you'd expect an eight-hour test on everything you learned in Engineering in the last five years to be. I honestly don't remember much of it, since I entered the Test-Taking Zone somewhere in the early morning hours of Saturday. I do, however, think I did well enough to pass... but I'll know for sure in 10-12 weeks. The Industrial Engineering part was certainly a lot easier than the "general" portion, thanks to stupid thermodynamics stuff that I don't have a clue about.

Yesterday was a blur, but the Wesley Band performed its last praise set for the year last night. It's been really fun getting to play my bass for more than just Singers every week. I had a great time, guys! "Hands of the Potter" sounded awesome. Best of luck getting things worked out to play more Sunday nights next year!

Today had another "last-time-I'll-do-this" vibe: pulling College Trick #3 to get up really early and finish studying for an exam. That's right, after the Environmental test today, I'll be free from tests until exams! That's not saying much, since there's a load of other stuff to do, but it's still something.

This promises to be a more fun week than last week, as long as my supply of allergy drugs holds out. Look for some interesting tidbits leading up to Wesley Weekend!