Trying in School

I think I’m going to approach the coming semester in a way generally new to me. It is my aim to engage the content of my classes. This is the content I would like to be well versed in. Employment will be the test of my abilities to master the courses in the coming semester.

Nuclear Material Science and Engineering
Nuclear Power and Public Policy
Nuclear Reactor Design
Nuclear Reactor Lab
Nuclear Science and Engineering Seminar

Fuck yes.

The seminar is one credit hour, the rest are three. I’m quite excited to learn this stuff. My two graduate courses last semester were not exceptionally more difficult than those of my undergrad. I purchased the books for the public policy course a few weeks ago. This is the mandatory grad-level English class for those in the nuclear department. I tried reading into the required anti-nuclear energy book but that didn’t last too long and now I’m five chapters into the pro-nuclear energy book: Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy by Gwyneth Cravens.

I feel the book is too much like a story. By which I mean, it has much more of a plot than the textbooks I read. The author is toured around nuclear reactors, refineries, mines, and disposal sites by the well spoken nuclear engineer, then she researches the topics and presents her results among a sometimes wordy story of the characters travels.

Ha, I wrote a book review, that’s funny.

Yep, I’ve been reading and chilling in Pueblo for the past while and now I’m ready to engage the content of the semester soon upon us.

Edit comment: The "I think..." and "I feel..." paragraphs of this post are written very differently; I suspect I might even engage the English class.

Peace -- Mike