Sigma Gamma Tau, the aerospace honors organization, held an event at the RLM observatory tonight. We went and looked at the stars from the roof, occasionally aided by telescope. It was a better view than I usually get from the ground, but it still wasn't dark enough to see extremely well. I thought about it and I realized that I haven't really been able to see stars anywhere I've lived since 4th grade. I think I used to be able to see them from my old house in Dallas, but I can't remember for sure- too young. But yea, then I moved to Plano and lived next to Carpenter Field, and they'd have those massive stadium style lights on at night. Similar story here in Austin, I guess. All that ambient light- I guess that's the penalty you pay for living near civilization, hahah.

But yea, I hate how organizations have all these things you have to do for "initiation." I mean, even if they are fun activities, the fact that you have to do it kinda takes away from the experience.

*So I had a Diff. Eq. test on Tuesday that I crammed all of Monday night for. I ended up doing better than I expected. I think for the first time in this course, I feel like I really understand something: the Laplace transformation. And I was doing a problem for one of my aerospace classes yesterday night, and I actually used Laplace transformations... I was so proud of myself, hahaha. But yea, I guess I'm having a lot of trouble in Diff. Eq. cuz I'm not seeing the direct applications of the material. Like taking Calc BC at the same time as Physics C in high school really put things into perspective, like oooooooohh, I get it, THAT's why you need the derivative and the integral! Yea, but the same isn't true anymore. In fact, my professor specifically basically said, "I'll NEVER show you any application problems related to your majors. You'll get plenty of that in classes later." But it sucks, cuz for now I've got very little incentive to remember stuff. =/ Suxorz.