Blog Entries

Friday, 14 August 2009

  • IDAHO

    Idaho is swell. Visited Yellowstone, going to visit Canada this week.

    Internship went well. Won the poster contest, and got a textbook scholarship for that. Going to present my work at a conference in Slovenia, which will be fantastic.

    Ready to start work on my thesis. The campus here is full of not-science majors, which is weird. Mostly its nice, but sometimes I wish people wouldn't look at me weird all the time when I tell them what my major is.

Tuesday, 02 December 2008

  • FINALS HELL

    uggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! So much work to do!


    There's this program nuclear engineers use to create temperature-dependent data libraries to make MCNP run. MCNP is a monte-carlo method neutron transport code. The program I'm working with is called NJOY, and I am NOT ENJOYING it.

    I also have an 18 page paper due tomorrow, a semester long nuclear system modeling project to finish by Friday, a Russian (as in written in Russian) final paper due Thursday, a 10 page paper due Tuesday, and a final next Monday (yeah, a week early).

    Whew . . . at least it will be over in just a few weeks.

Monday, 03 November 2008

  • emotions?!

    So, I've always assumed that most people around me are 'faking' emotions. This is probably because I fake what I think is the normal emotion to experience in a given situation, because I don't really go through alot of emotions myself. I'm pretty much always happy. I just sorta assume things will work out, so getting upset accomplishes nothing. And thus far in my life, I haven't really had a situation where this hasn't held true.

    But then today, one of my friends was telling me about something truly awful that is happening to him and his wife. And I don't know how to respond. "That's life, move on" seems harsh. Giving him a hug and offering to help seems generic. Saying "I understand" is a total lie. I don't know how to respond to these devastating situations because I've never been in one. Or the few times in my life that I guess qualify, I just chose to ignore things until it was over. And by then, things had worked out.

    Meh, I guess there's no point to this post. Not many people really read xanga anymore, so I guess I figured it was now less weird to post such musings.

Sunday, 05 October 2008

  • Great Movie

    Pu-239 is an excellent movie. I highly recommend you watch it. It's the only realistic theatrical representation of radiation sickness I have ever seen. And some of the lines are just so succinct, you just can't help but to appreciate what this guy is saying. Here's a link.

Thursday, 11 September 2008

  • Fall 2009

    I'm a senior, and it's super exciting. I have a bitchin' schedule of awesome, interesting classes. I have a research grant. I'm applying to grad schools. I'm training to be a reactor operator. Davy and I are engaged. Life pretty much rocks right now!

Thursday, 14 August 2008

  • Reactor Operations

    So, this summer I worked at the nuclear reactor on campus. It was so much fun. In the fall, I will be taking my NRC senior reactor operator's license exam, and then I will be able to handle the controls of the reactor all by myself. Look out Rolla, kenzie's got the wheel!


Sunday, 20 April 2008

Tuesday, 01 April 2008

Sunday, 30 March 2008

  • Spring Break

    I went to visit FIT for break, and it was great fun! Chelsea and I stayed with Jamie, met her roommates, hung out with Dustin and Killian at the beach, ate dinner with Brando and John, and just had an all around good time. I got my stomach sun burned though. :(

Wednesday, 20 February 2008