January 16, 2026

Back TO School!

Just came back to school.

Honestly, I am a bit excited but also scared at the same time. It’s an unusual feeling.

Holy SHIT! what a day to come back. First I woke up at 3:45 am and to correct myself I didn’t sleep till 3:45. Then at the airport I went in wrong TSA line and wasted 20 mins there. Then I gave my carry-on for checked so I didn’t have to carry it and DELTA AIR LOST THAT FREAKING BAG AND THEY ONLY SENT IT THE NEXT NIGHT WHEN I AM IN MY CLASS. When I landed in GTR, I missed my shuttle to campus as had to go back to fill the missing bag report and that added another 2 hrs in my trip when I really want to sleep. When the shuttle finally came and I sit in it there’s a FREAKING TRUCK THAT FELL DOWN THE HIGHWAY JUST AS I WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE THE AIRPORT AND IT BROKE THE BRIDGE(Driver survived). Like WTF was going on that day. Damn. Anyways I am back now.

I am excited because I have so many things to juggle through this semester; Try to get a co-op or a j*b(yes, censoring that j word there), fill out the transfer applications and write a ton of essays but I have already asked for recommendations with my profs so those are done for now, publish my paper and present it, working on my personal robotics project.

Instead of skimming through I want to write what I want to do even if it’s tiny.

  1. J*B. I don’t want to bum around the entire summer and the main reason is I want to learn how the engineering industry operates. I plan to open my own in future and I kind of want some reference. Money is also a part. I can’t lie. But truth to god, I want to learn more than I want money. I have applied to a engineering firm in Hawaii that will pay 20 bucks bc they do cool shit.

  2. PUBLISH MY PAPER - I have been working hard on it and I kind of want to publish my paper and get done with my research. I like Conv Neural Nets but I kind of want to be done with them for now bc I want to learn more about re-inforcement learning and robotics and this is getting in my way. I am putting way too much effort than I am getting paid for and it’s kind of tiring me out.

  3. ROBOTICS PROJECT - I want to learn re-inforcement learning by doing a project. I want to keep my UAV project on hold for now and make a bipedal with wheel kind of robot just to learn. I want to put a semester in it as I learn CAD, electronics and Manufacturing to support my UAV project. I know FreeCAD and Fusion but Fusion is sluggish and FreeCAD isn’t used anywhere in industry so I want learn OnShape for this. Let’s see how it goes.

All in all this semester is going to be busy and I can feel it already. I have like six classes in a day and two SI sessions the same day, which is kind of insane. BUT I think I will have fun nonetheless and I think that’s all that matters. I like to do stuff just for fun and I like it. I think that’s who I am. If I am bored and uninterested I just procrastinate or just don’t do it. This sem I have classes I am looking forward to and skill-sets I really want to develop. Let’s see how it goes.