Snorkel the Echidna
Billy the Joey
Another, older joey
Me with Billy!Today was the first day of class. I think this was the first day in 15 years of first days of school that I wasn't nervous out of my mind. It's nice to know that I'm finally getting the hang of it all.
I started the day off with Electromagnetic Theory, followed it with Robotics, and finished off after lunch with Signals and Systems. So far I have no native English speaking professors. Instead I have German, Arabic, and Chinese accents to augment my cultural experience. I was secretly hoping that in Australia electrical engineering would be a hip and happening major with maybe more than a 10% female population. I was disappointed, but not really surprised.
Robotics was a little disappointing; instead of building robots, we're just going to model them with MATLAB. However, there is another robotics class that sounds a little more interesting that I might try to switch into. In the other class they're building robots that are supposed to navigate around a track using a GPS system.
St. Thomas More College (my dorm) had a speed dating session tonight to help everyone get to know each other. It sort of worked. I saw a lot of faces, but now I'm mostly really hoarse. About 45% of the college (dorm) is international, and about half of those are from Singapore. The rest are Australian, and most of them come from the country. I want to ask them what it's like to farm sheep, but I don't want them to think I'm too weird just yet.
In the beginning are some pictures from our trip out to the bush on Saturday. We saw two joeys, and echidna, a wallaby, and some falcons. The video is of an echidna, and his name was Snorkel! Australian wildlife is pretty impressive. It's all really quirky.
That's all for now--
SIGNING OUT!
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