Final Countdown...

Well its my last night here in Birmingham. Its been a fun trip and I think I've gotten a lot of work done as well as getting a lot of learning done. I had some fun along the way too. I met a lot of people here through roommates, work, and friends and they will all be missed. I had a pretty fun night last night at my friend Diana's housewarming party with almost all of the people I have met while I was here. We just hung out and played music with the projector in her living room and splattered glowstick fluid all over her house haha.

As I get ready for my trip tomorrow I have been thinking about how much I have been traveling in the past year: Last summer I drove from Morgantown to Houston, TX with the microgravity team;

then I did an internship at NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Chincoteague,VA until mid-December;

Went to Salt Lake City with some friends and family until Christmas;

Went to Vermont with the snowboard club for a week in January;

Took my first trip to Colorado with the WVU Snowboard Team during the first week of March;

Came back to Colorado for another competition week with my family in April;

Went to Vegas for the International Wear of Materials Conference with some people from the lab;

Took a few day trip for the Autonomous Flight Safety System (AFSS) Project with S.P.A.C.E.;

Flew to Vegas with Nick and his family for a quick vacation;

Flew from Vegas to Salt Lake City to meet my friend Zach and drove from SLC back home to WV;

Left for the Outer Banks with some friends a few days later;

Came home for a week and came straight to Birmingham. Its been one heck of a year! So thanks to everyone who came on these journeys with me or enabled me to do so in any way, it really has been unforgettable.

See you in Morgantown...