Flashes of Panic

I guess I knew when I started this whole adventure that I was leaving behind my self-image as a humanities major and embracing my inner geek. But I’ve never had it confirmed so sharply as an hour ago, when I stopped by the CS building to pick up a bottle I’ll need for tomorrow’s Mt. Washington expedition.

I ran into two guys I run with regularly, and they said, “Hey, we’re thinking we should have a model rocket regatta.”

I said, “You mean, like the Estes rockets with the chemical engines?”

And within five minutes, we had not only decided that we had to do this, and set a date, but were planning to buy a department launcher (or build our own; it’s just a pair of alligator clips and closing the circuit on a 9V battery.) And we were planning to invite the EE and MechE grad students, too, because who knows what we could build and launch if we had access to a machine shop.

Let’s hope I remember to take pictures.

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