Uh oh...

Well, I hope my winter classic forecast turns out better than my 5 day for this week:

12/14- Sunny, windy, COLD. High, 38 Low 30. Winds 30+ MPH (CORRECT, except for the snow flurries on Monday night)


12/15- Sunny, cold, still windy. High 40 Low 30 Winds 30+MPH and decreasing(Partially Correct, temperatures off by more than 10 degrees)

12/16- Sunny, still cold, still windy. High 41 Low 29 Winds 20 MPH and decreasing(WRONG...didn't see the clipper on the computer models)

Below are my revisions for the next two days:

12/17- Sunny, cold, windy High 32 Low 19

12/18- Partly Cloudy,  High 34 Low 18

On another note, my 1st semester at community college is finished, and I know why it snowed today.  It snowed because I'm currently carrying a 4.0 GPA.  Yup, A's in both classes.  Scary huh. 


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The things your parents tried to tell you...

I'm a bit frustrated this morning. I realized this week that I'm not going to be able to take chemistry next semester. Chemistry is the first of many sciences I need to persue my degree in meteorology.  I need one more math pre-requisite before I can take Chem101. I considered doing the math I need over the January short semester, but after talking to the instructor about it, and hearing what it's like to cram 3 months of work into 4 weeks, I'm fairly sure that it's a bad idea.  I'm frustrated because this will delay the process, that is already going to take forever because I can only go to school part time. 
I've never been this motivated to go to school.  I guess it helps that I want to get out of IT with a passion. For the first time in my life, I'm wishing I would have listened to my parents and advisors when I was at Towson and taken a far more challenging curriculum.  YAY.

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College Update

I took my 1st unit exam in my algebra class last night.  I was actually nervous, considering I haven't taken a math test that counts since 1993.  I got 13 out of 15 correct, 87%.  Honestly I was hoping for better. The reality of it is, 87% because its on a heavily weighted test, brought my gaudy 97% class avg down to 90%, which was disappointing to me. One of the TA's was talking to me, and her point was "Hey, its still an A", but it really sucked to see my average dip so severely thanks to only two wrong answers.  I think I underestimated how hard it's going to be to carry an "A" in my classes....but I'm on a mission.  I'll have some more meteorology posts coming in the next few days.  My load at work hasn't allowed me to get any published in a while.  Until next time!


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A change in career path

Those of you that know me know how much I dislike my current employment situation and my current employer. I know, I know, it could be worse, I could work at BP.  I have spent at least two blog entries talking about needing to make a change. I decided a few weeks ago that the change I need to make needs to be a big one.  I am giving up on IT after ten years or so and going back to school.  My goal will be to get a degree and a new job in the field of Meteorology.  Its something that I have found fascinating for years, and it's something that I think I will enjoy doing.  I have a long road to make this happen, but it starts in the fall as I start by catching up on maths and sciences at Howard Community College.  I'm really looking forward to this new change and new challenge in my life.  I will continuing to work in IT to pay for school, as I attend in the evenigs and on the weekend.  The amount of advanced math and science I have to take is pretty daunting, especially since I avoided it like the plague the 1st time I was in school.  I've already been "catching up" on the math basics for the last few weeks, and it's actually fun, that bodes well for me.   My goal with this is to get all the way through the Masters program in Meterology and end up working someplace like NOAA or the National Weather Service.  Wish me luck!

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