What the hell is this?

Congratulations. You've found my blog.

These pages chronicle my mystical journey through the world of graduate engineering research. I don't really intend for this to be read by anyone at all since its going to be larded up with arcane acronyms, abbreviations, incomplete sentences, and nonsensical technical bullshit that I've made up. The plan is for a lot of stupid ideas, and a lot of personal bitching. Mainly, I started this blog because:

1. Some day I'm going to have to write all this down again without all the technical nomenclature, such as "asshat," that I intend to use liberally here. Such a compilation, a dissertation, is essentially just an extra long blog post formatted for the 18th century. Hopefully cataloging the rubbish coming out of my head will make that easier when the time comes.

2. I try to avoid complaining out loud in public like the crazy guy who stands ranting in the middle of campus every morning, and my roommates have heard it all already and have problems of their own. So might as well moan anonymously to posterity and the internet at large.

3. At the end of the day I'm usually not sure what I've done, if anything, other than refresh engadget and autoblog. Having to put together out a little summary each night helps me organize the organic chaos of research and lets me focus on what to do next.

4. Picking up where I left off on a Monday morning is difficult when I've had some kind of a crazy weekend. Rare in grad school I know, but they happen occasionally.

I look forward to the day when, bitter and defeated, I can look back at this waste of cyberspace and chuckle at how silly, childish, naive, and quaintly optimistic I was.