Finally

Houston, Magnolia, Tulsa, Irving, Little Rock, Camden and Nashville. What do these places have in common? Well I went to all of them for interviews. I must say that the Houston trip was the most fun, although Nashville wasn't half bad either. I did get rentals with the Houston and the Magnolia trips, so that was interesting. On Friday, I signed on with Lockheed in Camden. I will be working with the HIMARS group. It took some bargaining, but I made it through my four offers to finally get what I think I deserved. Although the salary isn't as high as hoped, the sign on bonus is big and the cost of living is small. I'm a little timid about Camden, but it's close enough to LR, that I think I will be okay. Plus the job will be sweet. I'm so glad I didn't sell out on the first big offer I got. Although I had lots of long nights and sweaty interviews, I finally got what I was working for.

Classes are coming to an end and I am excited for the summer. I'm going to Cancun for a week and Ukraine for three weeks. I'm pumped about both. I am a little worried about money, but hopefully it will come through for me. Back to classes, I think I did okay this semester. I will end up with a B in Russian History and probably a B in Flight, but oh well. I should get A's in everything else. I have worked my butt off in Russian Hist, but the teacher is super tough. Oh well, I learned a lot.

Iron man comes out on Friday and I will be at the midnight showing...and I am stoked!

Also, I have had the song "drama queen" by Family Force 5 in my head all day. You should check it out.

Free at last, free at last...well almost

The honor's paper is almost done! I am so glad I have toughed this one out and get to graduate with honors. I've really enjoyed the research and I am learning a lot of interesting stuff. Just need to input a few more sources. CP is done as well. Basically all I have left to do is study for finals. The only one I am super worried about is Russian history. That class is amazing, but the teacher is impossible.

Speaking of amazing, this weekend was great. I went on the spring retreat with the RFCs and had such a great time. I got to hang out with Laura Bealle, Fawna, Hannah and Chelsea. Those were the main ones, I also got to hang with the rest, but those were the main ones. Fawna is such a wonderful girl, as are the rest of those mentioned. Although the A-frame floor was rough, it was nice being able to feel like a part of God's wonderful creation. I could type about my weekend forever, but I will spare you and just tell you one exciting story.
About 930 on Saturday night we heard some music start up across the river. It was really loud and bumping. Jedi decided we should canoe over and check it out. So we go in all covert and slide onto the bank. Within about 3 minutes some guys are walking our way. We start running for the woods and they start yelling at us. "What are you guys doing here?" We don't know what to say. "We were just seeing what was going on." "This isn't your land you can't be here" "We are on the other side of the fence" "That's not your land either" "We can leave if you want." "You guys better get out of here." "Okay". Well the only problem is that the guys came past our canoe, so we can't get back to the other side of the 50 degree river without going near the people again. So Jed and I slowly and quietly sneak back to our canoe and get off the shore. Well Jed isn't done. He wants to see what's going on and why they stopped the party and such. We decide to go upstream a little and check out the cabin. To make a long story short, we ended up not docking on that side of the river again and the party died down. we think it was a bunch of underage kids drinking, bc right after we left we could hear them throwing bottles into the back of a truck and they went further inland. It was super fun, and super cold.

I need to get back to studying German. I haven't studied enough for my oral exam tomorrow and I need to do well on it. The grader is super tough. Have a great week!

It's a turtle...it's a turtle

This weekend was pretty well amazing. I watched two movies this week: enchanted and Shoot em up. I stayed on campus Friday until 5 or so and then I played Smash Brother Melee on Wii against some friends and then played Cranium until 1 or 2. To end it all, I had the word cocktail dress. I started with dress, which looked more like me dropping my pants and then went to cocktail. I tried to do a cocktail drink, but they couldn't figure that out so I heard Josh say "I'd just split it up." So I did and it was crazy the words I got from my team. Anywho, one of the freshmen I teach came and he was cool to hang with. Yesterday I was at the student center most of the day helping the freshmen around and eating crawfish. My family came up for a bit and then left before I could do my devotional. Oh well. Last night after devo we wanted to do something a bit different and so we rented a game from HAstings. Finding that sucker was an adventure. We ended up settling for some Resident Evil knockoff, that turned out to be decent, at best. Today I mostly studied for a test and worked on some papers. Tomorrow will be much of the same.

Job update: I have two offers. One of which is really appealing and the other is okay. I am expecting/hoping for two more. I am almost certain one of them will come and it's in Irving. The other is with Lockheed in Camden. I am hoping for that one. I have some potential with Honda in Ohio, but we've gotta get things moving on that one. Not sure about living in Ohio. We'll see. It's Honda, so that'll be cool.

I've got to hit it. The past couple of days haven't been grueling, but they've been used heavily to get some stuff done. I watched some formula one on Saturday for a German write up, so that's the kind of stuff I have been busy with. So is the life of a senior mechanical engineer with honors. Wouldn't trade it for anything.