I got confused just writing the title for this blog post, but it’s true: this is the last post I’ll be making for the first (blogging) week of a semester at Fontbonne!
Which, frankly, is crazy.
Then again, this semester will also be crazy, and I suspect I’ll be ready for the end when it comes.
(…Who am I kidding. I love Fontbonne, and I expect to be bawling when things start to wind down in May. I’m currently accepting donations for my Kleenex stash.)
The gen-ed Biology class I’ve successfully avoided for the past 3 years has now caught up with me, and Life Science is coming at me with a vengeance. (I knew I couldn’t evade it forever, but I thought I could at least try…) I’m also taking my last undergraduate Computer Science class, Operating Systems.
Then I’ve got two senior projects, one for my Applied Math major and one for my Computer Science major, which amounts to two 15-page papers and two “deliverables” besides the papers.
-For C.S., I’m making a device with a microcontroller that sits on top of a washing machine and sends a text message when the load is done.
-For Applied Math, I’m going to construct a mathematical model based on statistical study of the population migration out of Saint Louis City and into the County between 1950 and the present.
I’ll also be working as a Programming Intern at an area brewery, helping the Fontbonne IT department for a few hours a week, and doing a bit of cryptography research with the Computer Science department.
The semester has lots of work in store for me, but I consider myself really lucky: I get to take on some very neat things and work with some very neat people.
So as the semester is off and rolling, my final words of my last first blog of the semester are:
Good luck, everyone! Here we go!
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