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Winter Projects

November 24th, 2009

While I finished the quarter last week, it really just means that the next month and a half I spend completing projects that went to the back burner. Here’s to completing them by the end of the year!

  1. Sand and paint dressers
  2. Apply to graduate school
  3. Get approval to take the FE
  4. Get through Thanksgiving Dinner successfully
  5. Organize the bedroom
  6. Organize the study/work room
  7. Clean the car out
  8. Get the gutters up
  9. Find and purchase books for next quarter
  10. Get things together to study for the FE
  11. Organize the utility room
  12. Paint the living room

Whew! I didn’t put every single thing that I want to do on there, because these are the most important. So I want to complete this list, and then I’ll add to it as time goes. Now I’m off to start working on getting some of these things crossed off the list.

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To-Do List

August 17th, 2009
  1. Study for my exam tomorrow.
  2. Decide if I’m taking my exam early (tomorrow).
  3. Finish C Project (final one!!) due tomorrow.
  4. Catch up on blogs I read.
  5. Vacuum the apartment.
  6. **Cross my fingers** that my prints come in today.
  7. Clean up the bedroom (where all of my clean clothes are currently strung across the floor).
  8. Clean up the kitchen.
  9. Celebrate Steve and my one year anniversary today! Probably going out to dinner. I’m excited.

Whew! I’m off to cross things off this list, and with Steve’s help on the  cleaning side I should be able to knock all these things out.

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Libraries – An Integral Part of Learning

June 23rd, 2009

Growing up I was an avid reader, and for summer vacation one year, I checked out the entire Babysitter Club series (over 100 books) and read nearly all of them within a few weeks I was at my grandmother’s. Now that I’m older and in college, I still find the same trend occurring. Just this week I checked out the six titles my library actually had on hand of the Cat Who series – a murder mystery series by Lilian Jackson Braun. Even though I own these titles, they’re mysteriously hidden in the mega storage room in my mom’s basement, and until we can find a way to organize everything they’ll have to wait to be read.

Not having my own copies to read was never a problem in my mind because there was always the library. With the expansive network, even if MY library didn’t have it, I could request the titles from another library. Even though I am a college student, my university library doesn’t contain as many of the fictional “fun” reads that I like to read during the summer (much like my childhood). So my local library is a frequent stop.

I was saddened to see Ohio Governor Strickland’s proposal to cut library funding due to the economic times. Like many people, Steve and I have had to cut back on spending, and one of the ways we did that was by checking out books and movies from the local library. I know countless others who have done the same.

However, there are ways to help:

Please contact:

Governor Ted Strickland
(614) 466-3555
(614) 644-4357 (Fax)
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Representative Jarrod Martin
(614) 644-6020
(614) 719-3970 (Fax)
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Representative Robert Hackett
(614) 466-1470
(614) 719-6984 (Fax)
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Senator Chris Widener
(614) 466-3780
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If you are an Ohio resident, please take the time to let them know how you feel.

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Spring Quarter 2009 is Finished!

June 13th, 2009

I couldn’t be more relieved! Fall quarter always seems to drag a bit, but you have the entire Christmas break to look forward to! Winter is freezing outside, so being cooped inside doing schoolwork isn’t that bad. Then spring quarter rolls around. By the end of it flowers are blooming, and the weather is nice enough to sit outside. Clubs and organizations are having cookouts to raise money, and it’s not the easiest environment to keep on studying.

It’s finished though! Here’s to a weekend of semi-relaxing because on Monday I open up shop!

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Women in Engineering

June 4th, 2009

One of the fantastic opportunities available to female students (males are included, too, though!) is the Society of Women Engineers. This organization is a national organization with chapters available in most all universities. From the chapter I’m with:

SWE is a non-profit educational service organization dedicated to making known the need for women engineers and encouraging young women to consider an engineering education.

One of the great things that many chapters do is try to inform and recruit younger girls (usually starting from 3rd grade) on up to take math classes and motivate them to pursue a career in engineering.

Engineering is not for everyone, but if you notice your child does have a strong background in the math in sciences, please help to nurture that. If there’s a university nearby, see what programs (many of them free!) they offer children. If only I had known when I was younger, but at least now I know for my future children.

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