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 .