I almost let the blog go, but I realized that I had actually posted a few posts on it. I am in my last Fall
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| My senior seminar signed off! |
semester of the Aerospace undergrad. I cannot tell you how unreal that feeling is. It is exciting and very terrifying. At this point in every soon to be graduating senior, the unknown is a huge black hole that is threatening to swallow you whole. There are many options and doors that you want to open, but the bottomline, are you valuable enough to be given the keys to open these doors presented to you.
Many doors lay open, one of great importance to me is Graduate School. I would love to go further with my career. As self centered as this sounds, I am destined for greatness. I truly believe this. This "greatness" that i speak of is nothing like ruling a country or winning some kind of Academy award, but achieving the goals i have set forth for myself. Truly and entirely inspiring kids, especially young women into the field of science and engineering, to be apart of a *manned* space expedition, whether it be on the vessel or the project manager of the project. Grad school is something that i
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| MSU Space Cowboys at USLI Competition 2013 |
have been seriously considering for the past few months. I recently found out about a particular program called Space Studies. I believe that degree is what I need to take me further. So I am planning on applying at University of North Dakota as well as the International Space University (in France) for a MS in Space Studies. I think I will excel in the degree considering my experience with my rocket design team Space Cowboys.
Another door, or I suppose a couple of doors are the possibility of an actual job. I have been applying like a mad woman. As Lockheed Martin's Alan Lowrey put it, "You are trying to get a job, you are starting your career." These are words that are very hard to live by because as someone who wants to be in manned spaceflight, that is not an easy job to just luck into as a new graduate. We will see how everything goes.
I take the GRE in December after classes have let out. So I am going to begin studying for that soon. I will probably have the most trouble with the verbal section. I haven't had to think along those lines in years. I also have some exciting news coming up within the world of MK. That will be announced pretty soon. I will most
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| Me in front of a SaternV at Marshall |
likely talk a lot about it on this blog. In the world of Aerospace undergrad. It is Panel Project time! Which means we are building an aluminum panel with stringers. This had to be designed, analyzed, optimized, fabricated and tested for our Structures III class. It is a rite of passage for all seniors in MSU Aerospace. It has been challenging and I know it will be rewarding at the end of it. Just gotta make it to the end. My group is testing our panels this coming Thursday November 14th. We still need to finish routing the bracers as well as plaster the endcaps. Then we will be ready for testing. After testing we are off to writing the final report. The experience I have through rocket team with writing technical reports should be help and make this go smoothly. The end of the semester is coming quickly. Soon I will be in my last semester of my undergraduate degree and moving on to the next chapter of my life. I can't tell you how sad that makes me. I have made amazing friends my journey through my undergrad. It terrifies me what is to come. Especially if it is moving out of the south or where I am our of Kingdom (SCA). But what I know to be true about myself, whatever comes my way I will hit it with force, grace, honor and courtesy.
Here we go.
“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.” - Neil DeGrasse Tyson
