Mid semester exams

The mid semester break is over and like most people I've spoken to, I didn't do nearly enough study. At least my mid semester exams are spread out: 1 tomorrow, 1 next week and 2 the following week. Plus a few assignments thrown in there. Looks like there are some fun times coming up...

In other news, my parents just got back from a trip to New York. They went to an exhibition over there about the '8 Great Projects Under New York' (dad hasn't stopped raving about it). Basically New York's population has been pretty steady for the last 50 years or so and recently it has started growing again (it's just passed 8 million). So they've realised they need to start building more infrastructure (these 8 seriously huge projects) - it's pretty interesting stuff. There's a 9.5km train tunnel, a water filtration plant being built underneath a golf course and driving range (pictured below), a 13.5km train tunnel and a 96km long water pipe, 250m underground, with a diameter between 3m and 7m (pictured below), just to name a few.

And it's raining again! Almost 60% in the dams! :D