One man’s attempts to improve himself
Time for some catching up.
The good news:
Our last tax return showed NMSU that I need lots more financial aid.
NMSU gave me lots more financial aid, including work study money.
I now qualify as a New Mexico resident, so I can take more than six credit hours and still pay in-state tuition. I’m signed up for […]
This morning I had an email from the engineering college that Honeywell has awarded me a scholarship! It will more than pay for textbooks (a surprisingly large expense) and supplies for this year. Thanks, Honeywell!
Here’s the essay I wrote for the scholarship application.
I am a freshman in the Aeronautical Engineering program at NMSU.
Enrolling […]
I was applying for scholarships at NMSU and realized that I should probably have my resume up on gdunge.com for interested parties to read.
Check it out under the About tab.
Yesterday I came to the disturbing realization that I enjoy calculus.
Why disturbing? Because when I went to college the first time, I did not enjoy calculus. In fact I hated, hated, hated it. Especially Calc II, the class I’m now taking again. The one I’m enjoying.
For twenty years I believed that […]
(Apparently it’s supposed to be “unto” but it didn’t sound as good that way. Sorry, King Henry V.)
I’m all signed up and ready for the next semester, which starts tomorrow. I’m taking pretty much the same thing - the next sections each of Calculus and Physics.
I finally coaxed my grades out of the […]
So it was August and I was browsing the NMSU web site looking for a job. (I interviewed with their IT department before we moved here but never heard back from them.) Instead of a job, I discovered that NMSU had just started a four-year aeronautical engineering degree program. “I want to do […]
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