Ideal Vacation

The ideal vacation for me would be a couple months in Europe traveling around with that special someone. Starting in France seeing the history from war torn country side to seeing the elegance of the museums in Paris. From there heading to Spain to see the tomb of Christopher Columbus and experience the sweet taste of Sagaria. Of course there must be a stop at the rock of Gilbralter to take in a breathe taking site. Moving from there over to northern Italy to go skiing/snowboarding in the Alps at the Austria boarder. Heading south in Italy to Florence to see the art museums and expirience the plentiful flavor of wine from private vinyards. Then to Pisa to see the leaning tower and get one of those stupid pictures where it looks like I'm holding up the tower. Heading to Venice now to enjoy the water ways and take a romantic gaundala ride. The opera is a must here in the floating city. Rome calls us with a magnitude of history. We can almost here the people of history as we travel the streets of Rome viewing all the desimated ruins. Especially with the personalized tour in the Coloseum, imagining the blood spilt in that amazing structure. Dining at some of the best restaruants Italy has to offer. Lasagna, spagetti and alfredo melting in our mouths. Heading away from Italy over to Greece now to see the Temple of Zeus and the Temple of Athena. Lying around on the beaches taking in a sunset or sunrise over the Mediteranian with your loved one by your side. Of course these are just some of the places that would be seen and expirienced. There would be plenty of adventures in between these. But Greece would be the best place to end this amazing trip.

Blog #8 Holiday stress

Normally every year my Christmas shopping is done by September. But this year I just finished for the most part. As my siblings get older they get harder to shop for because the gifts they want are way more expensive than they were when they were younger. Between trying to find the perfect gifts, decorating the house, putting up with other peoples holiday stress and getting ready for the Christmas feast can make life pretty stressful. As that family dinner gets closer you can feel that anxiety of having to deal with relatives you only see once a year by choice. The anxiety of gaining those five to ten pounds from all the fattening foods being devoured. Of course this is after the kids wake you up at five in the morning to open gifts from Santa making you exhausted for the rest of the day. On top of these stresses students also have the added stress of having to do homework and studying. My holiday stress really comes in the form of close family members borrowing money off me so they can buy Christmas presents. My mom borrowed $600 from me and my aunt borrowed $400 from me. So luckily my buying of gifts is done or I'd be hard pressed to get my shopping done. So my holiday stress has been transformed from worrying of getting it all done to when I'll get paid back. This $1000 came from my money I was saving for school and my personal present to my self fund. And luckily I get to go somewhere else for Christmas dinner and don't have to clean anything up. So lets recap, by the end of the season you are tired, broke, fed up with family members and starting to get chubby.

Blog #7

I found that my research topic was pretty hard to get through. My future career is a Robotic/Mechanical Engineer. I researched how robots benefit us and make quality of life better. Robots touch all of our lives in significant ways. Usually robots in factories help mankind the most by moving heavy parts, welding, and painting. I found the most impressive area where robots are making an impact was the medical field. Advances in robotic arms in labs which help the scientist do expirements that his hand can't touch. The robotic prosthetics are the most helpful in making the quality of life better for a person. Advancements in this area are being made everyday. Engineers are working on making it where the amputee can control the robotic limb by thought like a real limb. Also they're trying to get it where the amputee can feel heat or pressure with the robotic limb. Being in the military myself I realize the significance of the use of robots in keeping military personel safe. The UAV is the most helpful in spying on enemies far behind enemy lines. I found out you really have to know what you are doing when it comes to hydraulics, pneumatics, and electronics. The area where I'm going to have trouble learning is computer programming. Computer programming is like greek to me right now. Robotics to me are a glimpse of the future today. I found sites where people thought the future of robots are like a terminator style future. I feel it's more like I Robot where humanoid robots help mankind with thier everyday needs. To be an engineer you need to be more imaginative than most people. Hopefully I can contribute good things in this career field.