Grad school is amazing sometimes.

Last week I gave a presentation on a group project for my Advanced Thermodynamics class.  It was a small project, but our group looked like it put in 10x as much effort as anyone else, mostly due to my info-packed slide and the 5 minutes I spent explaining it.  After the class, I was shocked when I had several people come up to me, shake my hand, and thank me for the presentation.  Now, here it is a week later, and I still have people coming up to me and telling me what an amazing job I did.. only because they are grad students who are in engineering because they adore the subject, and seeing someone put that much work into something they are that passionate about moved them to the point that they needed to tell me so.

Anytime people devote themselves so entirely to something they have a passion for, I am in awe.