Need. Sleep.

I keep thinking things are going to be better next week. I'm not sure why I keep thinking that and I guess I've finally reduced myself to stop thinking that.

It was a pretty tough week. Barely got sleep. Thursday night I didn't actually get sleep (thank God I slept an hour during lunch), and I went to bed at 12 on Friday night. We have so much work it's crazy. But that's college, right? Luckily I was mostly in an ok/good mood during the week....Thursday night I worked almost all night  on the MIT Clean Energy competition. We have so much work to do with that but it's all fun and such a priceless learning experience. I'm really learning more through that than any of my classes right now. The deadline for submission is the 26th...oh man how close that is!

Flying last weekend was fun! Did touch and goes with one go around and one simulated engine out when we were flying past the runway to turn around and land. That was pretty fun because I had to fly over the airport and do a sharp turn right over the runway and land. Good stuff!

Today we went up again and did touch and goes at the airport but this time I was controlling the radio as well. I still need work on talking over the radio but oh well. It got pretty busy up there! There was also a student flying....I believe it was a Cessna, and he made a mistake and ended up about 50 or 75 meters away from me, flying parallel to me. There were lots of times when the controller told me "no delay on the go" (basically after you touch your wheels on the ground, get your ass up in the air) and to go as fast as possible on the approach because there would be a jet coming in to land on my tail. Oh man, it's crazy sometimes. Also, something that was pretty funny...I was aligned with the runway and number 3 for landing. I was pretty far from number 2 so I wasn't too worried, but number 1 and 2 were so close! Number 1 landed, and number 2 was almost over the runway. Then we hear "3 Yankee go around." We see him going around, but number 1 is doing a touch and go so he took off immediately. Anyways in the end they were both pretty much flying one on top of the other until the controller had one of them side step to the right a bit.

Well, here's the good news.

The next time I fly I'll be going SOLO!!!!

w00t!!