So I walked out of my Comm Sys final and asked the guy that was standing outide, the first one to leave, “So, was I in the right classroom, or did I just take the wrong test?”  Yeah, it was that bad.  There were 20 pts that were gimme, then there were 4 fair questions that were like ones we had seen and studied; I kicked those in the butt, except for a forgotten equation on one.  Then there were these other 4 questions, like nothing we had seen, nothing we expected, and no one I talked to had a clue on them.  Myself included.  Comms Sys is fun; I like the material, I like modulation techniques and FSK, and I understand the concepts well enough to explain most of them to other people, but these questions made me hate it.  I gave up 2 hrs 25 minutes in, the 3rd person to do so (with the first only a few minutes prior) on a test that was supposed to be capped at 2 hours.  He kicked everyone else out at the 2:30 mark.  Nutso. 

Worked on the robot tonight, and tried to get it chasing the actual mouse.  Found out quickly that the mouse wasn’t hearing a 5ms pulse and had to up the pulse length to 15 ms.  Also found out that the turret, as good as it tracks a constant IR beacon, doesn’t track the mouse very well; especially when the mouse is only transmitting a few times per second reliably.  Worked on implementing a new control system so that the turret would track faster and compensate for platform rotation, but didn’t get this to converge on any fixed value.  Daly and I spent a half hour in front of the all-knowing dry erase board with a couple of Coronas and solved most of those problems.  We’ll try them out tomorrow night after the Systems and Controls final, which I should go study for now.  Well, maybe after just one relaxing game of BF1942.  Yeah, that sounds really nice.