Hi Walter,

Well, considering that I'm the president of a student organization, team
leader for a research project team (Autonomous Flying Vehicle), have a part
time job, and am taking 15 credits (including two labs, and a projects
class) on top of that, and that I have to write and submit applications for
3 grad schools and two fellowships, I think I'm pretty close! I average
about 5 hours of sleep per day and I know what you mean about amassing
sleep debt until a day when you can afford to sleep.

Bear in mind, too, that I'm not a workaholic by nature, I just kinda got
roped into these things one by one until I realized that I too much to
handle and can't get out of them!

Seriously, though, I think modern engineering schools such as Cornell's
have a problem with workload (perhaps it was always this way?). For the
past couple of months I have learned FAR less than I did earlier in my
college career, when I had more time. Too many times I have just had to
guess at homework answers, or skip learning something, not because I
couldn't do it, but because I didn't have the time.

Sean


At 01:38 PM 12/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Don't worry you'll get busier.
>
>Running a consulting/development company is like doing
>a Masters degree every three months using all your free
>time to apply for new jobs. You know when you are getting there
>when you have to plan three weeks in advance which morning
>is available to catch up on sleep missed in all of the all
>nighters in the last project.
>
>w..
>
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