Back to School

I've had a few interesting weeks.

I worked crushing uranium ore samples for three days. Just long enough for me to get to gamma radiation in my reading and have a chance to play with their old-school geiger counter, but not before I'd already crushed and milled over a hundred samples. And it's not easy work. The cotton masks they give you cut off a hefty percentage of your oxygen supply while you're working, leaving you constantly gasping for air when you've got two machines in full swing. I still can't breathe properly and it's been almost two weeks now. The machine that produced the most radioactive dust during the whole process was appropriately named "The Terminator."

So I went into work on the fourth day, told them it wasn't working out, then immediately went down to the college and registered for their engineering program. I've got a ton of ideas floating around in my head for different design geometries for traditional solid state devices, as well as some brand new concepts that I'll probably spend the next three years researching. Real exciting stuff... to me at least.

Either way, I've finished my first two days and am avidly reading over the material thats been supplied. I hope to stay ahead of the class, as I seriously slacked off during my 'searching' period at University. I think it's safe to say that I'm in more of a 'seek-and-destroy' mentality now.