I am graduating today!

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 08:33pm

Yes it has been a long road, but finally I am graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering!

Mind you its 37 degrees outside (98.6 in Fahrenheit), and I will be wearing a heavy black cloak, and black pants with a shirt and tie, in the middle of a football field (Telstra Dome) and I have to sit through 5000 students graduating from RMIT.

So expect pictures of me looking exhausted on A&P Forum soon!

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-16 08:35pm

Congratulations on your big day, Stef.

Treasure these moments; someday you will be rummaging through a closet in search of your kid's winter boots and your carefree youth will be a very distant memory (I know it doesn't seem carefree when you're living it, but trust me, it is).

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-12-16 08:37pm

Congratulations. I can't wait till I'm there in a few years.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-12-16 08:38pm

Congrats and start working on the plan for a Death Star.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 08:48pm

Darth Wong wrote:Congratulations on your big day, Stef.

Treasure these moments; someday you will be rummaging through a closet in search of your kid's winter boots and your carefree youth will be a very distant memory (I know it doesn't seem carefree when you're living it, but trust me, it is).

Now that is freaking me out, because here I was thinking (back when I was doing my thesis) that I wish I was back at highschool again when everything was easy!

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 08:48pm

Joe wrote:Congratulations. I can't wait till I'm there in a few years.

Are you doing Eng as well Joe? Which university?

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 08:50pm

Montcalm wrote:Congrats and start working on the plan for a Death Star.

All in good time, my friend, all in good time. Interestingly I am trying to get a job with an engine manufacturer, especially those trying to get a scram jet working. In fact that is my goal, be there when the first Single Stage to Orbit vehicle takes off.

After that, we are half way to anywhere in our solar system!

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-12-16 08:53pm

Ah, engineering; the subject in which highly educated and astute individuals toil endlessly in extremely complex fields for 60,000 a year while watching C- liberal arts majors cut multimillion dollar book deals.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-12-16 09:07pm

Congratulations and welcome to the club

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-12-16 09:11pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Ah, engineering; the subject in which highly educated and astute individuals toil endlessly in extremely complex fields for 60,000 a year while watching C- liberal arts majors cut multimillion dollar book deals.

You mean those precious, lucky few who do not end up serving me at tables or attending to my shopping bag?

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 09:12pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:Ah, engineering; the subject in which highly educated and astute individuals toil endlessly in extremely complex fields for 60,000 a year while watching C- liberal arts majors cut multimillion dollar book deals.
You mean those precious, lucky few who do not end up serving me at tables or attending to my shopping bag?

Hehe, arts student's; Would you like fries with that?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-16 09:14pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Ah, engineering; the subject in which highly educated and astute individuals toil endlessly in extremely complex fields for 60,000 a year while watching C- liberal arts majors cut multimillion dollar book deals.

Interestingly enough, I've heard D students make the same argument in defense of skipping classes to hone their basketball skills.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-12-16 09:14pm

Congratulations

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98? Ugh sounds like my graduation day...just doesn't sound like you have the humidity.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 09:16pm

Ghost Rider wrote:Congratulations .

98? Ugh sounds like my graduation day...just doesn't sound like you have the humidity.

Nope bone dry outside...

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-12-16 09:17pm

Crown wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:Congratulations .

98? Ugh sounds like my graduation day...just doesn't sound like you have the humidity.
Nope bone dry outside...

Lucky bastard...so what's your plans now?

Vacation?

Job hunting?

Going back to school, for a Master's and youre nuts?

Post by **RogueIce** » 2003-12-16 09:18pm

*sigh* Another engineer? How many of those are there here again?

*checks current major: Engineering (Unspecified)*

Damn it.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 09:22pm

Ghost Rider wrote: Lucky bastard...so what's your plans now?

Vacation?

Job hunting?

Going back to school, for a Master's and youre nuts?

Extended Vacation in Australia / while my lecturer tries and finds me a position in Germany, at which point I will go on a 2 week vacation to Greece, to see all of my relatives, prior to commencing work.

Well that is the only 'plan' in action at the moment, but I think that I should also shop around for things closer to home, just in case.

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-12-16 09:25pm

Maybe we should have a private club. The men/women ratio is already correct. Just think, we could have entire threads solely dedicated to fuzzy logic!

Extended Vacation in Australia / while my lecturer tries and finds me a position in Germany

COME TO MÜNCHEN!

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 09:30pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:Maybe we should have a private club. The men/women ratio is already correct. Just think, we could have entire threads solely dedicated to fuzzy logic!

Extended Vacation in Australia / while my lecturer tries and finds me a position in Germany
COME TO MÜNCHEN!

I think you already took a position that he was trying to fill!

I am just trying to get my foot through the door at the moment, there are people in my course who just make me look like a dumb-ass, and they are having hissy-fits if they don't get what they want, I just want to get over there, find a suitable job, do it well, and then decided from there.

Others expect their road to be laid out for them 100% before they get there, which is a bit un-relisitic.

Oh Olrik, are you at Astrium?

Post by **Colonel Olrik** » 2003-12-16 09:35pm

Crown wrote: Oh Olrik, are you at Astrium?

No, at the Siemens research center. My contract starts January 15. I'm going to move about a week earlier.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-12-16 09:40pm

Aerospace Engineering? Fucking congrads and a half!

Um, I heard this weird whining whop whop whop whop sound from the compressor section of my left engine today. You wouldn't happen to know what that is would you?

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-12-16 09:43pm

Congratulations. I'm counting the days until I have my AE degree.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 09:47pm

Colonel Olrik wrote:
Crown wrote: Oh Olrik, are you at Astrium?
No, at the Siemens research center. My contract starts January 15. I'm going to move about a week earlier.

Ahh, that's right, I thik I have a friend or two that is goint to Siemens, but I think that they are going to Bremen, and not Munich.

Wicked Pilot wrote:Um, I heard this weird whining whop whop whop whop sound from the compressor section of my left engine today. You wouldn't happen to know what that is would you?

What makes you think they actually teach us stuff worth knowing? Acutally we all came to the conclusion that we got taught how to learn stuff on our own.

Howedar wrote:Congratulations. I'm counting the days until I have my AE degree.

Best of luck to you, take my advice and enter an AIAA design competition, if you get in the top 3, recognition is a good thing!

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-12-16 10:30pm

Congrats Crown. Now, you will be able to respond to those who doubt you like this:

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-12-16 10:35pm

YT300000 wrote:Congrats Crown. Now, you will be able to respond to those who doubt you like this:

<snippy image>

I like it.