So here I am, sitting at my computer, in the sweet-ass board room that I get to book for a couple of hours every week, trying to do a Fracture Mechanics assignment. I feel like an idiot. I'm trying to plot a stress-strain curve, find a few moduli (is that the plural of modulus....I have no idea) and a few calculations that I learned 5 years ago and it's taking me bloody long time.
In the "Real World" we have programs that will do that shit for us so we can right to the meat and potatoes of the issue: Will the damned thing fail?
Right now I miss the "Real World". Maybe my assignment would be finished by now if I had that program or an attention span longer than a walnut. Excel is powerful but it just doesn't cut it right now.
On the plus side, today was an awesome class. They just keep getting better. The prep work is hell, mainly because I'm relearning the material and need to understand it so well that I can explain it, but it definitely pays off. I think I had 11 out of 19 students that either spoke up, provided an opinion or asked a question today. That's slightly better than 50%. EPIC!
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