As I sip my Pepsi and listen to my fixation song of the week, I bring a great life update and a thought dump about it. That being said, I would like to announce...
I got an official date on the last day of my school program-- October 28th!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Essentially, that means I am now in the homestretch for my trade school journey...
Because this blog wasn't here to document those last 4 quarters as they happened, I will choose to summarize all of them in bullet points right here:
(please ignore most of the photos being sideways. I dunno how to fix that just yet :/)
1st quarter (dubbed by me as "Age of Machinery")
- Dabbled into multiple machines you'd probably find in a shop; including lathes (my favorite), drill presses, a fly cutter, etc. Learned how to use them and how to maintain them.
- SO much hands on... (that's a good thing!)
- Got practice with kinds of hand tools and learned about threading
- An amount of plumbing practice, but only a few things
- Oh, and the pipe threading machine!! That was fun!
- Huge class, low materials
- Boys talking about whatever
- Pizza on the last day of the quarter instead of a final :D
- 4.0 GPA AND 100% ATTENDANCE!!
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| Milling practice! |
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| Pipe threading machine! |
2nd + 3rd quarter: (combined because they belong together- "Twins of Electricity")
- The quarters of all things electrical! Say WATT!?
- Learned a lot of electrical; from bread boards to ladder diagrams motor controls (frankly, though, wiring the actual things still confuses the HELL out of me x_x)
- I enjoyed breadboards enough that I bought myself a small one! I use the set sometimes to play around with basic circuitry
- PLC programming, which is like coding but for industrial processes! I enjoyed it but also got frustrated multiple times. Lol
- More boys
- Also financial literacy :3
- Small amount of hydraulics and pneumatic trainers (not enough of 'em)
- Conduit bending and fake residential wiring scenarios
- Self control tested! Full honesty!
- Class is still huge, and we still don't have enough materials! This is a consistent issue in the local campus. They are reportedly working on this, though, don't get mad at them.
- Had donuts on finals week instead of a final (hell yeah dude!!)
- Attendance dropped a deminimis amount due to unforeseen circumstances-- got all Bs though :)
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| Solderless circuit! |
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| Schematic diagram of the basic circuit! |
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| First installation of a receptacle... whoa... |
4th quarter (Quarter O' HVAC): (no photos obtained)
- MORE boys. The class got bigger. Help-
- This quarter was HARD...
- Learned about the inner workings of different HVAC systems and the four main parts they have
- A billion simulations about gas furnace troubleshooting and general HVAC ones used to challenge you
- Learned about the refrigeration cycle and the four main parts involved in it
- Not a lot to say, it was a lot of stuff related to heating and cooling...
- General ed related to job hunting/career skills and computers; I think I needed that...
- Did you know that cold is attracted to heat?
- Information about rigging and forklift trucks, too :)
- A LOT of focus on EPA 608; later got EPA certified universally! ("It's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it." - Mr. Young)
- Summer break for 2 weeks-- had a cookout at school before we went. This period also presented my birthday! (June 18th)
- Where I learned "demininis" from
- Ushered in the finals week and got As on both of my finals, finished the entire quarter with all As.
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