Week of September 4th

            This week was the second week of my UAS education, by now my classes have moved onto the actual content of their respective courses. Thankfully they've been relatively easy so I've been able to figure out how I want to lay out my day but I am confident that they'll get progressively harder. On Wednesday, I went to check out the UAS club here on campus and it strikes me as similar to a robotics club which I was a part of in high school, save for the competitive aspect of my high school club. 

Within the aerospace community, I find it pretty interesting that everyone shares a mutual passion for aerospace and is generally excited to be going through this learning process. In high school, most people don't share a real passion to learn about anything but here that is entirely different. I would even go as far as to call this interest maddening since that's sometimes all that people talk about, even in casual conversation. If I could list every time one of the pro pilots has come up to me and started telling me stories about when they were flying or about how I “need to get a pilot’s license”.

I think a truly special circle in this aerospace community is the UAS group. Now I’m not just saying this because that’s my concentration but this really an especially passionate group. I’ve spoken to several people who talk about how they’ve dropped $1200 on a drone or how I need to do the same. One guy I spoke to even used his drone to do small jobs for people like photography at weddings or other special events.