showdown time!

So, what do I blog about today? Am sitting at the library…am dead beat but I don’t wanna go back to my apartment just yet. I have to be at the laboratory at sharp 8:00am tomorrow coz the TA is gonna stop by to educate me and get some stuff into my thick head! Which means I wont get any sleep tonight. If I DO end up sleeping I wont be able to come around anytime before 11:00am. But if I don’t sleep I’m in for massive disorientation coz I gotta stay at the lab all night tomorrow (The return of the dorky lab partner). And seeing that I have my mid term on the 7^th…I’ll end up losing lotsa precious time the day after. Wow! This is perhaps the first time in my life that I am forecasting and scheduling things up to 2 days in advance.
I am extremely concerned about the lab work though. I am not a software enthusiast…especially when I am pressed on time. In fact, I loathe software. (Not all software…I like entertainment oriented software!) For the first time in my life…I’m regretting taking up a course. Why cant I just stick to fabrication? Why cant we electrical engineers work in sync with computer science students to get a job done? Why can’t I design an integrated circuit and have someone else synthesize and simulate it? I don’t mind deciphering the output graphs either…but I just don’t like the process associated with getting the system to barf em out!
When I work with software…I have no idea as to why I am doing what I am doing. Today, I used 3 new tools without knowing why I am using them. They worked pretty well…I can give em that credit…but like I said, I can never understand software. There is just SO much going on behind the scenes that it’s annoying. And when I question people about it all they say is that…”THAT’S the characteristic of the tool. THAT’S why it’s better than the other CAD tools around. THAT’S the way its been designed.” . And they’re right. My question was probably as stupid as someone asking…WHY do we have to click on the Mozilla Firefox/Internet Explorer/Netscape icon to surf the net?
Anyway, guess I gotta suck it up and make it work anyway!