i'll do my best to be brief in catch-up...
exams were what they always are - miserable, hehehe! but survived, i think (not sure what the final scores were yet) ... my brain is definitely getting more stubborn in its "ripening" age - i don't like to memorize things for the sake of memorizing - and yes, by the end of the term, there were things i just plain never quite figured out how to do, despite multiple attempts. like, calculating thermal comfort and drawing the shaded area of a window overhang based on the solar angle... just too many vectors for this brain... some things need to be accepted, at least until they come up again... and perhaps by then i'll have a better method at my disposal...
so, i suppose the big news is, I'M DONE WITH CLASSES!!!
the anti-climax to that is... i'm really not sure what's coming up next.
confident in my knowledge, not so much in my skills - i was hoping by now i'd have a better handle on exactly how much energy gets saved/produced using different technologies, particularly solar pv... but a systematic approach still eludes me... so i'm hoping whatever comes next will change that...
on a sidenote, i'm teaching english at the university :) after taking more than 70 college classes in my lifetime, i learned a thing or two about teaching, i think - and it's a refreshing change to be ON THE OTHER SIDE of things! i've been given free reign, which is also kind of nice - i get to develop my own stuff, so i'd say there's a fair amount of history involved...and trying to explain concepts like perspective, art vs. design (vs. engineering), expression, imagination, conflict/social change, rock & roll, satire, jazz, the media...hehehe! bits and pieces that have stuck from assorted lectures over the years...
speaking of which, time to finish off today's lecture/exercises...
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