---
title: "The State of Now"
date: "2020-03-11"
author: "William Floyd"
categories: [
    "Personal"
]
tags: [
    "Personal"
]
---

Perhaps it is the slow pace of work over my spring break, or the ever mounting pressure to build a portfolio of content before I graduate, but it came to pass that I recently finished configuring this server.
Truth be told, I merely transitioned to a different VPS provider, as I had lost SSH access to my prior server, and did not trust the host to begin with.
But, whatever the case, here I am - as sporadic as ever, though perhaps a little older.

As such, perhaps some content should fill this - as of the moment - rather empty website.

***

Since my first posts here concerning a certain ill-fated rice cook (a project that I admit to never having brought to fruition), both much and not much has happened.
I am halfway through the 4th semester of my Mechanical Engineering degree at LeTourneau University, am happily in a relationship with a fellow engineering student (though I may not name her), and have become - at least somewhat - less of a pain to those around me.
Yet I *feel* that though I have learnt much over what is soon to be 2 years of education, I have at the same time also done nothing of interest.
The closest I have come yet are perhaps the engineering projects of 2nd and 3rd semesters, though I shudder at the memory.

Sleep is a most wonderful and valuable thing, but it was not something that I had anticipated lacking in my life as I entered University in the Fall of 2018.
To be sure, I had stayed up late before, but never before had I done so as regularly, or with such frequent severity, as in my 2nd and 3rd semesters.
For it was in the Spring and Fall of 2019 that I completed my only Engineering projects so far...

My first semester passed - in retrospect - rather peacefully, but Spring of 2019 brought with it University Physics 1 and Intro. to Engineering Practices (IEP) 2.
These projects will be given their own separate posts, detailing some aspects of them.

For now, I plan on writing up these projects, and hopefully I will document any future endeavours.