Springtime Weather Woes

I'm not a big fan of springtime weather throughout the day. It's mainly the fact that it's usually around 30 degrees outside in the morning when I head out to class, and at midday it gets to be a comfortable 70 degrees. This usually poses a dilemma in the morning when I decide what to wear for the day. Ideally, I would wear a coat for 30-degree weather, but later in the day when it's 70 degrees outside, it's quite awkward wearing a coat or lugging one around. However, if I decide to start the day dressed for 70-degree weather, then I will probably catch a cold or something and get sick, which is also not desireable.

Last night

We were walking from West Campus to Collegetown, and behind the law school my friend and I find a small purse lying on the edge of the path. We figured someone lost it accidentally and is probably going to look for it sooner or later, so we took a look inside to see if we can get the person's name. She had her ID card in there. We then decided to be technologically savvy (and a little creepy I suppose) and look up her name online via my friend's Blackberry to see if there's a phone number we can call and get the thing returned to its righteous owner. Just as we were about to call the number, she walked by us going the other way and recognized her lost purse that we were carrying, and all was good.

Ok, this was a pretty dumb story. She was kinda cute though.

Spring Break Commences

After three weeks of exams, labs, projects, ridiculous homeworks, CUSat babysitting, trying to find a job and such, spring break is now upon us. Since I haven't updated in over a month, I'm going to try something new and do this in pictoral form.



CUSat testing at Cornell has ended, and the satellite is now at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque. Launch is currently slated for February 2010.



I finished the short stack at Hughes again yesterday morning. The pancakes were filled with bananas. However, Nicole is still a beast because she arrived 15 minutes late and still finished the short stack first. As seen in the picture, the pancakes are as big as Nicole's head.



Today was Dragon Day at Cornell, where the architects try to show that they're better than engineers. The dragon looked like a dragon this year. A major disappointment was the lack of large fires (aka burning the dragon). Apparently Cornell is trying to be more environmentally friendly or something like that.

Short Stack

I finished a short stack of pancakes at Hughes Dining for the first time this morning. You might think that 2 pancakes are nothing, but these pancakes are as big as the paper plates that they are served in, so they are huge like Snorlax. I've had the short stack at Hughes several times before, but I've never finished one before today (usually I'd make it to around 70% completion). I think a major factor in me finishing the short stack this morning was the banana filling.

CUSat - Part II

We are currently in the third week of classes. I've found that I'm busier this semester so far than I was last semester, even though I'm taking less classes. This could be because the pre-ship review for CUSat is approaching, and there is lots of work to be done in preparation for that. So, here are some more highlights of things that have happened during the past month in CUSat:

• More GPS receiver tests on the roof of Thurston Hall (and out the window of Upson 205, but that's not very exciting because it's indoors and the window has to be open during the test, which makes the room super cold)
• Ordered 1 meal per day for the team before classes started. Because I took everyone's orders everyday, I now have an idea of what everyone on the team likes/dislikes in their food, which I'm sure is something that not many other people can claim.
• Ran a hardware test in the clean room. This means wearing the clean room coat, hairnet, gloves, and electrostatic discharge wrist strap for 4 hours. After the test, I took a very satisfying leak.