Terre Haute (sounds like boat with an H)

Hey guys welcome to Rose-Hulman Tech Institute. I figured that using a blog would save me writing emails, and i wouldn't have to clog your inboxes with pictures. So i'm here... its pretty sweet actually. The campus is gorgeous, the parks are nice, the tempurature is perfect, not too humid (right now), the teams are great and the professors are super friendly. Yes i am the but of a lot of potatoe jokes, but atleast i dont call shopping carts "buggies" or water fountains "bubblers"??? Whatever... I want to thank you for all your support and prayers, God is definitely at work here. I never expected to say grace at the first meal we had as a team (led by the faculty). I also been able to pray with my roomate who just broke up with his fiance. Anyhow... i am really excited to see what the next 7 and a half weeks hold. (this is a picture of the dorm i am in)


As far as the project goes i am on a team with two other people researching Lateral load resistance and Progressive Collapse classification of existing structures. Long winded... but it pretty much means were trying to figure out a way for inspectors to rate an older building to figure out if it needs to be improved upon so that strong winds, terrorist attacks, etc, wont destroy the whole building. (progressive collapse is like what happend to the World Trade Center) Yah... i am not completely out of my comfort zone, but i am pretty much learning stuff all the time. (this is the chapel and lake that i can see from my dorm)

The schedule is fairly relaxed, the dorms are big and nice, and we have been fed like kings. Every night this week we have been at a different professor's home for dinner. Tomorrow we're going to our professor's home who is from Ghana, so we are going to be eating some african food tomorrow. Pretty cool. Anyhow i am supposed to have read like 109 pages by tomorrow, which wont happen because we've been playing volleyball with our professors and their families. (did i mention that i get my first of 3 thousand dollar checks tomorrow?) hehe. Life is rough. :D (this is the auditorium... i'll get my own pictures on here in awhile)