Well, finals are over. Now the major work begins. Right now, I am currently being funded by the Technical Assistance Program here at Purdue. They pay my tuition and pay me a stipend. In return, I do consultant work for them. Through the Technical Assistance Program, businesses in Indiana bring an industrial problem to them, then they give it to the department that it is relevant to. I do whatever work is necessary and then write a report at the end. This is all on the side of doing my normal thesis work. Luckily, I am done working with the TAP program at the end of this month. From then on, Cummins, Inc. will provide all of my funding. I will be up to my eyeballs in work. This summer is basically dedicated to getting all of my results which will go into my thesis. I hope to write the thesis this fall and graduate in December. The sooner the better. The work that I will be doing this summer will be electropolishing off micrometers of sample, then taking the sample to the x-ray diffractometer and measuring the residual stress at that position from the surface. The process will be repeated until I have a complete residual stress profile. So much fun! Can't wait! In the meantime, I will be keeping my eye on the job market in the Portland, OR area, so that I can move out there when I graduate. This weekend I will be heading down to Fishers to clean out anything I have left in my closet. My parents will be closing on the house they bought on May 30th, so I will be helping them move during the month of June. That's the latest and greatest with my parents. They are so incredibly excited to move into a house after living in an apartment for the past 14 years. My sister is currently in the process of moving to Fort Louis, WA, where she will be living with her fiance, Aaron. They plan to get married in the fall sometime. So much going on with my family. That's enough for now, hopefully more will come shortly. Adios.