Monday, September 18, 2017

Week of September 11th

    This week didn’t stand out much as an interesting or otherwise not. The longer I hang around these aerospace people, the more I feel like an outlier. Everyone has devoted significant time and energy towards their major before they even started here. To say it is intimidating is an understatement but at least I know that all aerospace knowledge I acquire is from exclusively MTSU and I can accurately gauge the quality of my education here.
    On the topic of intimidation, the number of pro pilots here compared to any other major imaginable is astounding. In most of my aerospace classes, the pro pilots are the largest group by significant margins which really leads to difficulty in finding people to socialize with within my own major. I’ve really thought over this whole UAS club and I think that’s the only way I’ll be making any UAS friends outside of class. This club really seems to be a great tool to use to further my experience in the field and with some of the projects that they have in the works, it really strikes me as another robotics team kind of experience that I had in high school.

    I feel like it’s also kind of interesting that many people talk about aerospace in the sense that it is one giant team sport. All the different little sects work together for a common goal and that everyone more or less works together but this just isn’t the case for the UAS people. We have a set of objectives that are about as separate from the rest as it gets which I find interesting.

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