About Me: School Edition

I am a student at Boise State University. This is my fourth year attending, and I am majoring in Materials Science and Engineering. This fall semester, I am taking 12 (?) credits. They are:

• MSE 310: Electrical Properties of Materials
• SPAN 101: Spanish 1
• MSE 465: An Introduction to Mathematica
• MSE 497: Communication in Nanotechnology
• MATH 360: Engineering Statistics

My favorite class by far is Statistics, much to the annoyance of my study buddy. :) I am greatly enjoying all of my classes. I can't believe there are only a few weeks left of the semester! If I stay on top of my classes, I might be able to graduate as soon as Spring 2011! Some days that sounds so close, and other days it seems so far away.

I was fortunate enough to land a job working in a research lab under Professor Bill Knowlton. He is a brilliant man, and I am so thrilled that I get to earn such valuable work experience as an undergraduate. If you don't know, undergraduate research is incredibly rare in universities. This is what makes BSU one of the top schools in the country for engineering. The hours are sooo nice compared to what I'd been used to. I was working 19 hours a week, and now I only have to work a minimum of 7 hours. I get to do things like fabricating electrodes in a clean room.

School is hard work, and it's not for everybody, but I am definitely glad that I chose this route. Most days. ;)