Meaning of Life, the Universe, and sleep deprived test taking.

This past week was the week that most people at school have been taking finals, or studying for them.  I on the other hand have been doing essentially neither.  I wrapped up a few presentations early in the week, took a low stress oral exam, and oh yeah, I almost forgot again, an easy final for my class (I almost forgot the day of... oops).  This has contributed much to catching up on other neglected tasks in life.  Ironically, all the freedom has had me so excited that I've had a hard time sleeping a few days.  One day, I even just wandered outside at 2 am to look at the stars.  The stars and universe are pretty dang amazing when you look at it.  It made me happy inside.  A good feeling

Continuing on with the big thing for the week though, I took the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, or FE.  So, in effect, I paid $150 to go take a test at 7 am on a saturday for 8 hours!  EWWWW.  This test isn't particularly hard and is one of the first steps in becoming a licensed professional engineer (my brother took the PE exam this week).  Oddly enough, Chemical engineers don't tend to need this license, but it'll be good to have should I ever need it.  Remember how I said this test isn't that hard, well it's true... as long as you've studied every type of engineering... civil, electrical, mechanical, and actually, the chemical engineering components are pretty easy (or too irrelevant for general engineers to need to know).  So in the middle of this test I found myself trying to understand, moments of inertia of beams, maximum stresses, and other things.  The wonderful part... I'd only slept about 3 hours the night before, just because I was nervous I suppose.  A lot of other guys must have been feeling the stress too, because by the end of 8 hours... that room STANK.  HORRIBLY.

In contrast to that stinkiness though, I feel the test went rather well. We'll see in a few months how I did.
Now though, I'm on my way to being done with my undergraduate career forever. Summer, you are mine! WAHOO!