Solid Mechanics
It is pretty dire when I have so little clue what an entire module is about that I have to resort to wikipedia to get an overview. It turns out, 20 lectures in, that my course on non linear behaviour of materials is actually an obscure treatment of solid mechanics. It would have been nice if he had bothered to tell us.
It is still terrifying though. Our lecturer is so much of a mathematician and so little of an engineer that even with liberal applications of wikipedia knowledge I am still struggling to link his maths back to anything tangible. Two weeks to go till exam and I will either get it by then and get 60% or not get it and get 0%. Not 30%, not 15% but zero. And the only book he sites is some dodgy russian maths book that doesn’t exist in the library.
I just can’t wait to finish. I can’t wait to go kitesurfing. And I won’t even complain that we don’t get motar-boards at graduation in Bristol if I make it through…
