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I just found out that my unit, the 353rd Special Operations Group, received the USAF Outstanding Unit Award.

Yay for more pretty ribbons on my uniform! :D
 
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I think that guy on the left has reached max level. :lol: I'm just a level five n00b with my five ribbons; two medals, two ribbons, and one award.
 
I have an interview today in a few hours for a small on-campus development laboratory. I'll be apply for a programming position. My friend of similar programming stature already got an offer, and I'm hoping that I will to! (Considering the requirements and their apparent need for "competent" programmers, aka someone who can google and type in Eclipse).

I don't know if this will come to anything, but I'm still excited!
 
Got a job interview at a Methadone clinic.

I heard that I get my own office.
 
Got an 87 on my first Basic Thermodynamics exam. The way the class is setup, thats an A! I love being the CE that kicks all the ME's butts. (Although to be fair, I've got an advantage by being probably a year farther along than them, I've already had Fluid Mechanics...)
 
I will never understand this. Last year no graduate school wanted me. Now, just a year later - I already have three offers and I am trying to determine which is best.
 
_HighVoltage_ said:
I will never understand this. Last year no graduate school wanted me. Now, just a year later - I already have three offers and I am trying to determine which is best.
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You don't have that undergraduate desperation stink. It took me two extra years for them to like me.
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The selection process makes no sense and borders on random. A friend of mine tackled the whole "getting into a PhD program" methodically: She applied to the top ten schools in her field of interest as ranked by the Leiter Report. To make a long story short (and cut out lots of "OMG no one will take me" moments): She got rejections from most of the lower five and got accepted by most of the top five schools. Now she drives a NA Miata.

EDIT: On a more personal note, a got accepted to give a talk at an important conference. While it is the most highly-respected german laguage philosopher's conference, it also is the biggest (if my estimates are correct, there will be around 300 twenty-minute presentations like mine), which means that getting accepted probably was easier than it would have been on a lower-profile, specialist conference. Still, i call this a win.
 
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I have been hired by a start up company that is using gasification to convert waste to energy. Looks like the company could take off too, so hopefully all goes well. If they do take off I could get to travel all over the world working on the machines.
 
Congratulations! That sounds like a pretty cool place, just don't come home smelling like poo.
Seriously, turning waste into fuel is awesomesauce; but now I'm going to complain to you when it costs me $50 to fill my tank, you know that right?

I just checked my grade for my first 8-week condensed course (it's an entire Master's level semester course jammed into half the time).

Total points: 990.
Total possible: 1000.

Stupid 10 points. I think the only reason I got docked on that one assignment was because I challenged the professor when the presentation took a turn from factual information to making moral pontifications about marriage and kids.
 
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We are also working with another company that can turn the gas we produce into various liquid fuels, like gas or diesel.
 
Sent an email to a professor asking to use him as a reference, got a job offer. :blink:

It doesn't start until May, so if I don't have a site by then I'm going to take it.
 
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