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Admiral Regulus

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  1. I'm back from the dead to bring you this announcement:

     

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    1. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      Thank you so much for doing this! It means a lot! I'm back now though and I'm so happy! :wub:

  2. Well, this is pretty accurate.

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    1. MidnightFire1222
    2. TigerGeekGuy

      TigerGeekGuy

      How did you get this picture of me? :blink:

  3. This time last year, I had graduated and spent almost 6 months unemployed and looking for a job. I got very few interviews, no job offers, and was seriously starting to lose my mind from it all. I had just started running every morning to try to get in shape--I was considering joining the military so that I could have some job to support myself. I didn't really want to do it, but it seemed like the only option I had, and I was getting so sick of being turned down by every company I applied to.

    One day last summer, I was going to talk to a Navy recruiter to become a nuclear propulsion officer. I went to the recruiter's office to take some kind of aptitude/knowledge/qualification test, and as a complete surprise to me, it turned out that I got the highest score the recruiter had ever seen. I think part of that was because the test asked a lot of engineering related questions, so my education and background helped. But additionally, I had put a lot of effort into my studies, and that was really the first chance I had to show it. That meant I could have chosen pretty much any job within the military, and I would have been accepted.

    The result I got on that test made me think it wasn't so hopeless. In a way, it reminded me that I shouldn't sell myself short even though things hadn't been going well. Everything kind of started to change that day. I had been accepted into graduate school, so I decided I would take the risk and avoid joining the military in favor of continuing my studies. I lost out on a full time job with good benefits, but I thought it might be worth it.

    Later on last summer, I got to meet my girlfriend in person for the first time. Ironically, at that same time that was happening, a professor offered me a job as a research assistant if he could secure funding for a project.

    I'm halfway through my masters degree now. I started working for that professor, so my work funds my classes and living expenses. He's complimented me several times. He likes that I show up on time, I'm always interested, and I've very focused on my work (not all of this can be said about the other students he advises). I've made very good grades since starting graduate school, and this week I'm leaving for a summer internship. I almost didn't think it was possible, but yes, I finally managed to get one of those.

    In addition to preparing for that, I'm also planning a third vacation with my girlfriend this summer, and also working on the paperwork to begin my thesis in the fall. Life has been busy as crap with classes and research, but a year ago, I almost couldn't have predicted things would turn out as okay as this.

    Looking back now, I guess everything turned out as it should have. I just didn't know it at the time.

    1. MidnightFire1222
    2. TigerGeekGuy

      TigerGeekGuy

      Great to hear that everything's starting to work out well for you!

  4. Man, I feel like horsecrap today. Skipped work, except to make a trip to the machine lab to pick up some parts. Skipped classes too. Hardly slept at all last night, and am super tired today. I got some aloe to put on my sunburn, but even with that it still burns like hell. Now it's just more like my face, neck, ears and arms are in an oven rather than drenched in napalm.

    1. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      I guess that's better?

  5. Today was... possibly the worst day of work I've had so far.
    Had to miss two classes to help some other students do field testing of a robot. Missed breakfast this morning, couldn't have lunch, and didn't get to go home until much later than I expected. In total I spent nearly eight hours outside today... and instead of getting some of my owm work done, I managed to get what is probably one of the worst sunburns I've ever had. My feet are killing me from standing all day, instead of being nice and comfy in the lab.

    I'm home now, but I'm dehydrated, exhausted, and it hurts to move. Oh, and I still haven't had the chance to go to the post office this week... damn it.

     

    1. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      At least it's almost Friday right?

  6. I hate it when the post office requires you to sign to receive a delivery. It's so stupid.

    I was supposed to get a very important document returned to me in the mail today, but that didn't happen. The mail carrier apparently left a notice because... "sorry we missed you!"

    My ass. I've been home all day, and I never heard the doorbell ring. But I now have to go to the postal distribution center during inconvenient hours to pick this document up, when it could have just been left in the mailbox like... you know, all the other important mail that goes around.

    1. Arc Flash

      Arc Flash

      Hmm..sounds like my mail department here...or they deliver it to someone across town:lostit:

  7. How to classify any mathematical expression:

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    I was inspired to make this quick guide after my troubles in the past few days.

  8. It is amazing how unproductive a day at work can be sometimes. Finish printing parts? No, the printer broke. Solve partial differential equations in an analytic form? lol... I'm sure a solution exists, but I've been at it for 15-20 hours now and haven't found it.

    Another long day, another day of accomplishing nothing. Welp, I should get some sleep. Going to have to do it all over again tomorrow.

     

    1. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      Good luck tomorrow!

  9. I graduated in December of 2017, and spent most of 2018 looking for work. I was able to find a part time job tutoring, but it didn't go well, and for the most part, things weren't looking good. I knew I needed to rethink my life, so I decided I would go back to school for a master's degree.

    I didn't have funding for my first semester, and I questioned if it was a wise decision. Now, I can say that it was. I've been offered a full time job as a research assistant just this week. This upcoming Monday will be my first day of real, actual work--and for the first time ever, I will have complete financial independence. My tuition and fees will be paid for, I will be doing real engineering work, and I will have my own health insurance coverage, among other things.

    It's difficult for me to express just how grateful I am that this is happening, and it's very odd to think that everything managed to fall into place after all. I'm not just relieved; I'm completely blown away by how awesome it is.

     

    1. MidnightFire1222
    2. Arc Flash
    3. TigerGeekGuy

      TigerGeekGuy

      That sounds amazing, congratulations!

  10. In the past 10 days, I have done literally nothing but sleep, eat, and work on end-of-semester assignments for school. Even that is kind of a generous statement to make--I ate nothing but microwavable trash food, and even my dreams were filled with thoughts of conformal maps and partial differential equations.

    Once I finished my last final exam yesterday afternoon, I went home and slept for a little more than 12 hours. It's over now. No more classes again until January. Today I'm cleaning up and eating some not-so-trashy food. It feels good. I feel free. I don't know what else I'll do today, but I suppose that's the beauty of it.

    1. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      At least it's done until next semester. :)

  11. That's quite a username you have there. And happy birthday too!

  12. What. Why are all images black and white right now? Has the web server gone back in time to before color was invented?

    1. Snow Frostflame

      Snow Frostflame

      Its been like this since yesterday. I like it, but now the artist I commissioned can't see my reference pictures very well. I thought it was amazing timing.

    2. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      It's an noire theme.

  13. That moment when you plot one of your homework equation systems into Matlab, and it looks like ET's face... lol.

     

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  14. Woke up from an awful dream this morning.

    It's weird. Sometimes prior events seem like a fluke or a one-time thing as they're occuring. And it's easy to downplay it in the moment, or forget about it when it doesn't happen again. But if I take a wider point of view, I see that there are patterns in memories after all. That one little thing is rarely just one little thing. It was so long ago now that it probably doesn't matter, but what happened then was more concerning than I thought. Odd, it took me a dream to realize that.

    Meh. Well, time to get ready for the day.

    1. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      How had was this thing?

  15. Today is Friday. Yay.

    1. Kyoshi Frost Wolf

      Kyoshi Frost Wolf

      It is Fridyay. :3

    2. MidnightFire1222

      MidnightFire1222

      Don't act too excited. You might implode from it or something like a supernova.

  16. This is it: one more free day. Then it's back to going to classes again tomorrow.

    On one hand, I'm ready for this break to be over. On the other, it would be nice to spend this last day doing something memorable.

  17. I woke up early this morning. I nearly browned my pants when the first thing I saw was something big staring right at me from the back porch.

    A minute later, I managed to get a picture through the window.

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  18. Well, I did it. It took a few hours, but I wrote a program that can solve any sudoku puzzle using constrained guesses. It works on even the most difficult puzzles, and it's pretty fast, too.

    The source code is available on GitHub, here.

    Now, I'm back to being bored again. I need something else to do.

  19. Another slow day today. But, I had an idea. I was thinking of perhaps trying to come up with a probability-based algorithm for finding the solution to sudoku puzzles. But, I'm not sure that would really work. I'm debating whether or not I want to take myself down this rabbit hole right now.

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    2. Admiral Regulus

      Admiral Regulus

      I tried. Not very well, though. The code isn't well written so it's pretty difficult to trace.

    3. Brony Number 42

      Brony Number 42

      What are you coding in?

    4. Admiral Regulus

      Admiral Regulus

      Matlab, lol. I was using that just because indexing matrices is simple and easy.

  20. Your user avatar is unbelievably cute.

    1. CheeryFox

      CheeryFox

      Yeeeeeeeeee!

    2. Wannabrony

      Wannabrony

      I agree, I love this avatar too! ^_^ For this avatar, we need to thank @The Recherche for finding it for me. :squee: 

  21. I thought yesterday was boring, but today is even more boring. I really wish I had someone to talk to. Will gladly accept PMs if anyone else is interested.

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    2. Admiral Regulus

      Admiral Regulus

      Frozen, delivery, or homemade?

    3. Kyoshi Frost Wolf

      Kyoshi Frost Wolf

      Technically delivery out of those choices? They don't do delivery but it is a place here in town, a gas station actually, but the brand of pizza they make is the best I have ever had, Hunt Brothers Pizza. :D I potentially will have to walk uptown and get it, but it is soooo worth it.

    4. Admiral Regulus

      Admiral Regulus

      That sounds nice. How far of a walk is it?

  22. Bored bored bored. Bored bored bored bored bored.

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    3. Kyoshi Frost Wolf

      Kyoshi Frost Wolf

      Idea. We should take boredom and hit it with a board. How can we be bored hitting boredom with a board? :D

    4. Admiral Regulus

      Admiral Regulus

      Alternatively, we could bore holes in a board. That would be very boring.

  23. Well. There have been better days. There have been worse days.

    Relationships are hard.

  24. Sometimes I sign into MLP Forums to find find 10 or 20 notifications. Sometimes, it's 100 or so. Other times, I don't sign in at all...

    Then there are days like today. Today, I found thousands of notifications. And with one quick click... it's gone.

    Hello people. :muffins:

  25. Oooooh, I member!

    1. Member Berry

      Member Berry

      'Member when there weren't so many Mexicans?!? :D

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