Time is winding down here like a trickling cold spring. I already have feelings of missing the summer rapidly being replaced by the joys of the exciting fall semester coming up real soon.

After the summer, I’ll wholeheartedly miss:

• the community of nerds
• the few amazingly mental and livingly appreciative friends that I’ve made here
• the free golden breakfasts and dinners (seriously)
• the lack of humidity and the cool, crispy delicious mornings
• the vacant worries about so many obligations – the vacation-like atmosphere
• having the top fire scientists merely a few feet away to talk to and learn from
• peeking through the vast fire science library – like no resource that I have seen before
• the ability to SSH into a sea of 40+ linux computers to calculate my FDS curiosities
• sitting by the pond having lunch with a dear friend, dear deer, geese, and a shady tree in the breeze

This fall, I explodingly and excitedly look forward to:

• sharing what I’ve learned here for the rest of my life, scholarly and real-life related
• getting to teach classes!
• learning more and more about Fire Dynamics Simulator and the beauty of the dynamics of fire for the rest of my life – I’ve only been working with FDS for a year now, after all, I know nothing…
• the sickening number of trips, and thus, experiences that I will be able to take around the world
• growing with the dedicated students at UHD who wish to be something in the fire protection world
• writing non-stop all week long
• meeting more and more progressive people in the world
• moving into a new house and making the most mentally conducive, fire studying, brain leaking, progressively thinking, and soul soothing place in my universe
• wondering how the weather will be in Massachusetts in a year
• having a comfortable amount of money to perform my goods in life

It really has been a fantastically mind-expanding experience. It’s not over yet! I still have two projects to work on, a presentation to give, a paper to publish, a lab notebook to fill, and many more days and nights to grow.

Also, I am bursting for Wednesday to come, when I get to visit one of the coolest and most robust smoke detector laboratories as well as the headquarters for the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and meet the director and such!

If you ever wonder what else you can do in life, take a moment to just start writing what you are thinking.

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