Friday, October 21, 2011

Fall

Sunshine.  Crunchy leaves.  Crisp Autumn air.  New orange sweater.  Mmm fall.  Maybe we'll go for a hike tomorrow and take advantage of the nice weather. 

Nate said his interview went well.  He was really excited about the school and the area.  So now we wait and see if he is accepted there.  And maybe more schools will want him too. 

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

The future is coming...

Well life keeps changing.  Nate is in Iowa at a medical school interview.  I'm so happy for him that he got an interview.  He has worked so hard for a chance to go to med school for so long.  Its wonderful to see someone recognize his good qualities. 

That said, it scares me to have to move to the middle of Iowa, where I don't know anyone, with no mountains or lakes or people who recycle. 

My thesis is humming along.  I have to defend by the end of next month, and I finally have a few graphs and results in my report which is really exciting.  I hope that I understand everything well enough that they think I am worthy of a masters degree. 

Not sure exactly what I want after graduation.  I mean I need a job of some sort and I think I want to design, but I kind of like researching earthquake stuff.  There aren't that many people that know a lot about earthquake engineering.  And a lot of the few that do only design to code.  I wish I could be more confident in the knowledge that I do have. 

Anyway.  That's been on my mind lately.