MSU Friday

Today was another fun and successful MSU Friday. This event is a fun way to visit campus and experience what it's like to be a MSU student. This free event is put on by the Office of Admissions with their help from AdvoCats, staff and faculty on campus. Campus tours went on all day, there were tours of all the resident halls and facilities available for students, such as the new health and PE complex. Prospective students also had the opportunity to sit in on sample class that are available on campus. For example, Physics 205, Greg Francis demonstrated the bed of death as he set a cinder block on his chest while laying on a bed of nails and asked an assistance to swing a sledge hammer onto the block, you'll have to take to class to see if he lives. Other sample classes were "How to Explore Majors at MSU", "What is Music Technology", "Digital Application in Architecture", and many more in various areas of studied offered at MSU.
Students also took tours of facilities of anything from the Arts and Architecture Departments, to Fraternity and Sorority Housing, to the Space Science and Engineering Lab. Student Panel and Parent Panels were also offered for prospective students and parents to ask questions of current MSU students.
MSU Fridays are a great way to experience real classes, real people, and real experiences on the MSU campus. If you missed out on this one there is another one on April 3, 2009. Hope to see you there!

Here is the link to the MSU Friday webpage on montana.edu
http://www.montana.edu/wwwnss/msufriday.shtml

Bridge Building - Architectural Structures

Back in December. . . 2008. Our structures class built some bridges. Structures is a class we have been learning anything from tributary area loads to earthquake stress on a building. For our final project last semester we were required to build a bridge. It had to span 10 feet across a (frozen) stream behind the Architecture building. It also at a weight limit of 120 pounds and had to be assembled on site. My friends and I worked on this project up at my parents house, they had the garage space and all the tools we needed. It was fun coming up with a design, building it, and testing it. We had to load it up with 300 lbs of weight, ours held all 5 of us on it.

We are such an exciting group of people they wrote a news article about us on montana.edu

http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=6620

Check it out, there are some more pictures

Back to School.

Happy 2009!
First day of classes for this semester was Wednesday the 14, it was a good break. It was nice to stay in Bozeman, relax and sleep a lot. My brother and his wife were home for two weeks from Seattle, so it was good to see him. All my friends from high school were back in town as well, it's always good to see all them. Campus was quiet all break, the offices were open, but obviously not many students were around. It was a pretty cold break, some of the ski lifts were closed due to the cold and high wind speeds.
On Monday and Tuesday we had orienation for new freshmen and transfer students. Many of the freshmen had graduated a semester early from high school and decided to go right into college. Part of orientation is becoming familiar with the campus in many ways, we give campus tours, help everyone understand the registration process, and answer questions. I think everyone is excited for the new semester, it shoud be a good spring of 2009!

Paint

I painted my room over break. . . finally had time to do it.

Unicorn pearl, looks good huh?