Brown -headed Nuthatch

There's a Brown-headed Nuthatch on my feeder. How fun! We have them in the pine trees in Poplarville and a pair built a nest in the old silver maple stump by the little house. They are the cutest little birds. They sound like rubber ducks and they move up and down (headfirst) trees looking for bugs.

I'm trying to figure out what classes to take this summer and it's not easy because there isn't much going on in the summer. I've signed up for Reliability Engineering with my old professor, Dr. Maghsoodloo. The class is heavily statistics-based so I'm pre-studying statistics now to be ready for the class this summer. The class is really interesting. You calculate the probability of component failure and then combine the probabilities to determine product reliability. I took it years ago!

I have to find 6 more hours to take this summer to keep my assistantship. There's a class in Computer Science called I-Phone Application Development, but it's at the same time as Reliability Engineering. There are some other interesting classes in Computer Science but they are not graduate level. If I had a research interest and a professor to work with, I could take some "research hours" with the professor. The LP professor is retiring after this semester. Too bad, because I think I could work with him. The Adaptive Optimization professor is another possibility--she's intense and demanding, but I am interested in the topics she studies and I don't think I 'll be bothered by intense and demanding.

At Dad's suggestion, I'm off to find K-D food for Coma. It is for old dogs with kidney problems.