My Cousin is so Freaking Awesome
Today I went and talked to an adviser in the department advising office, and she told me to take at least one, preferably two hours of independent study this summer to make up the deficit in my ECE GPA. Earlier I had ended the unsuccessful negotiations with my one professor for a C+ instead of a C. He wasn’t going to budge. Anyway, as I was walking out, my faculty adviser, who is the professor of the senior design class (the class I have to take this summer) was walking in, so the head adviser stopped him and we talked to him together for a while. Dan, my cousin, had already talked to the Senior design guy (Prof. Swenson) and mentioned that I was going to come in and talk to him to find out what tips I could get on getting an A in his class. He gave me some great advice, and told me to aim a little lower with my project because the difficulty of the project doesn’t figure in very much (if at all) to the final grade. So after that I walked out thinking about who to ask about an independent study class.
When I got back to work (I work for my cousin upstairs in my departments electronics shop, 265 everitt labs if you ever want to visit) I told my cousin what had happened and he said that I should start looking for parts for my project now, and that he would go talk to a guy about the independent study. He comes back, says I should email a guy he talked to, because he might be willing to work with me, and that if I could jump on it now, I would be ahead of the game, and would overlap less with senior design that way. So I might be hooked up and ready to go, so I can get out of here this summer. And it is all because my cousin is a really cool guy, who helps me out a lot.
This is the same guy who basically got me my job in California where I met my fiance, and who has given me a job working for my own department which I have held for going on five years now. Basically he has helped me out at every turn in my life since I came to college. I’m totally going to have to make him stand up at my wedding and embarrass him by talking about how cool he is.
Well, that is my story for today…that and my Wacom tablet and new router came in today, which is cool too.