Further affirmation that we are moving somewhere tropical when I graduate.
For at least 8 hours of my waking hours every day I live not in my house, but at school. I figure it is about time that I posted some pictures of where I live.
View from my building of the fountain
Front View of the EE building
Side of EE Building
If you live somewhere cold you gotta have walkways between buildings
All summer long I have been dreading taking the Qualifying Exam. The Qualifying Exam is offered once a year and is considered to be the Iron Gates through which all EE graduate students must pass. The lucky make it through alive on their first attempt, while others succeed at their second. The rest, well, they are cast into the fiery furnaces of entering the workforce.
Technically speaking, you are only required to take the test after completing two academic school year semesters as a graduate student. Having entered in January I only had one under me, so taking the exam was not a requirement for me and realistically I am not even qualified to take the Qualifying Exam. Upon my arrival at Purdue everyone I talked to said that I should just try it anyways, as if taking a four hour exam is like a walk in the park. The exam consists of up to four questions from each of the eight areas of EE offered at Purdue. In the exam you need to answer two questions from your area of study and then pick any other two questions. My field of study, Fields and Optics, had only three questions so I easily decided to take those and then figured that I know enough about computer engineering to be able to answer a question from that set. I spent all summer studying for this exam and the dreaded day arrived.
