So-Called Internship.

Well. I am having my ‘internship’ at my department. I am following my lecturer. Supposed to learn how to use this VLAERO+ and VSAERO software in preparation for my 3rd year Design Build and Fly design project sponsored by Boeing (a total of 19 of us will handling it).

This VLAERO+ software is killing me.

400+ pages thick User’s Manual, none of the lecturers have used it before, its so rarely used that there ain’t any books at the library where I can borrow nor is there any forum which provides you with more friendly help.

I am on my own, with this book of ET-like language instructions.

Shit. And there’s some bug with this software which I had to e-mail the technical support in US on my own coz like I said before none of my lecturers have used it before. Turns out I have to download the latest version. The one that the the lab technician gave me isn’t updated. BUT, I can’t install the latest version. I don’t know why. Sigh.

And I can’t e-mail the technical support guy rightaway as I ain’t sure whether there is some special way to install it as I am sorta using this software ‘illegally’ coz my lecturer gave  me the one of the very few license to it.

Gah.

I am so stuck.

Even following the tutorials is hard. I don’t know how the input data comes about and how to interpret the results. The method behind the software is just too confusing. One semester of Foundations to Aeronautics is so little, close to zilch compared to what I am about to face.

I have been spoonfed throughout my primary, secondary and even tertiary education.

It’s about time I took initiative to do what a almost-to-be-final-year-student is supposed to do .

Long Time No Post.

Few months has passed since I last blogged about my fall. It stills feels loose, but sigh, I guess there’s nothing much I can do about it. I am starting to play basketball again.

A few more days till I’m officially an adult.

I am already starting to feel old. Parents are already asking me to think about what I want to do after I get my degree. So far, studying in Hong Kong has really made me realize that living on my own isn’t going to be as hard as I thought it would be.

I used to dread opening my mouth to ask questions. Even asking for a larger size for a T-shirt would scare the crap out of me. But now, I go to the Immigration Tower alone for a reissuance of my No Objection Letter, take public transport all the way to Shatin for my first ever internship interview (which I screwed up anyways, oh well), ask technicians at the department for help (last time I used to be scared to go to the computer laboratory alone) etc.

Google Map does make things a whole lot easier for me too. Ha!

Lol. I am not sure what to blog about. I should be starting to work on the VLAERO+ software so that I’ll have some data to show my lecturer but I, as usual, am still procrastinating. There are many things I want to do. I want to practice basketball, nap a lot, read lots of novels, read up on the 400+ pages VLAERO+ software manual, play ping pong, PRACTICE GUITAR REGULARLY***

So much to do, yet most of my time is being wasted away by sleeping A LOT. It’s like I got infected from my hamsters or something. I wish the crazy one would infect me with its enthusiasm of working out on the wheel. Then I wouldn’t be complaining of being out of shape.

On a more random note: I realize my parents are somewhat strange, eccentric in some sense, which makes me wonder whether my ‘eccentricity’ (if any) comes from them. Gah. But the world does not evolve around me. (I have no idea what I am yakking about).