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Friday Fun Indeed

Today, I took my first Hydrology exam and wow, it was pretty tough.  I had studied throughout the week, going over all of the homework problems we completed, looking through the notes, and reading parts of the book over...

E-Week and More on Concrete

On Saturday I attended the annual Engineer’s Ball which concluded Engineer’s Week which was last week.  This year the E-Ball (as they call it) was at the Scheman Building instead of the Great Hall in the Memorial Union like...

Concrete and Accounting

Hopefully after this blog entry I can get back into my normal blogging schedule.  I have been pretty busy the past week and this weekend.  I don’t have any exams coming up until this Friday but I had and still have a...

The First Dynamics Exam

I know that I haven’t written a blog for quite a while now but I really have a good excuse for it; I had my first Dynamics exam on Monday plus the career fair yesterday.  I studied all weekend for the Dynamics exam and I...

What Would We Do Without Grandmas

Today I finally got a hold of my other grandma on the phone.  She lives kind of in the same area as my other Grandma so she was talking about the storm at the farm as well.  She lives on a farm and has been there for...

Oh How I Love Bridges

Earlier today I was sitting in the Kiewit study room trying to do Dynamics (again) and I was watching this screen in the middle of the room that had a slideshow on it.  Every once in awhile it would bring up the Pacific...

Late Nights and Homework

As the title of this entry implies, the past few nights and days have been pretty full of homework and staying up late.  For most of the day on Thursday I was in Howe working on Dynamics problems and trying to...

The Beginning

Hi, I’m Mitchell and this is my third year here at Iowa State.  I grew up in a small town about 40 miles north of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.  I enjoy running, biking, reading good books, playing a few video games,...