<p>I thought everyone would get a kick out of this! After doing some house cleaning, my mother found this poem I wrote in the 5th grade for a heritage project. </p>
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<p>While I seemed to blur navy and AF together, at least it follows with my nickname. 
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<p>Funny how my childhood dream came true though! :)</p>
<p>Wow, that's great Hornetguy. Pretty good poem for a 10-year-old.</p>
<p>We saw a picture of my son with a shirt on that said "Air Boss." He's a pilot and an air traffic controller now.</p>
<p>You should write to your teacher and tell her how things turned out.</p>
<p>Good to see someone else who had this kind of dream at age 11 like I did. 33 (yikes!) years later, I'm glad to say its been a wonderful life living that dream (even if it is as a WSO. Not exactly a co-pilot, but I'm still flying in an F-15E).</p>
<p>Funny how it is that if you set your sights early, and keep pushing no matter what, the Lord above can sometimes give you that chance to get your dream! </p>
<p>Best of luck to you, and I hope you get that dream as well (well, maybe not in an F-18, unless you do an exchange tour in your career. And wouldn't THAT be a great story! :) )</p>
<p>Aaaaaaawwwwwwwww!!! Kodak moment right there. :) Are you sure you don't want to be a humanities major, hornet?</p>
<p>hahaha. Nice. </p>
<p>hornetguy go fuzzy? That's almost as funny as me wanting to be a double-E major. Sorry redhead, but I don't think that will ever happen. ;)</p>
<p>lmao, silly kids these days. :) redhead, your mission is to learn the reaction mechanism for the epoxidation of an alkene, then you may come bug me. ;)</p>
<p>hahaha, nice comeback.</p>
<p>Time to support our classmate, Falcons... ;)</p>
<p>Sir, the answer is: Catalytic oxidation with oxygen or the reaction with percarboxylic acids can be used to yield epoxides. The epoxide functional group consists of a three-member ring with two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom. These moieties are found in many naturally occurring organic molecules, as well as in industrial starting materials. Epoxides are most commonly synthesized from reacting alkenes with peracids. One of the most widely used epoxidizing reagents is meta-chloroperoxybenzoic acid, or m-CPBA, because of its mild conditions and high yield. However, it also produces chlorinated waste and is potentially explosive. H2O2 is a better choice in terms of both atom economy and innocuous products. Both H2O2 and m-CPBA donate one oxygen atom to the alkene substrate. However, this is ~50% by weight of the H2O2 whereas only ~10% of the m-CPBA. Studies with various POMs show that they might offer safer, selective, and high yielding routes to epoxide synthesis.</p>
<p>Documentation:
"Alkene." [noparse]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkene.%5B/noparse%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkene.[/noparse]</a> 17 Jan 2008, 20 Jan 2008.
"Epoxidation." [noparse]<a href="http://ctarr.myweb.uga.edu/Epoxidation.htm%5B/noparse%5D">http://ctarr.myweb.uga.edu/Epoxidation.htm[/noparse]</a>. Fall 2003, 20 Jan 2008.</p>
<p>lmao, now let's go perform that in the lab. ;) Wow do I feel nerdy right now, but that's my major guys! :)</p>
<p>What do professors think of wikipedia? I know some of my teachers totally disdain the site, but I think it's great. Do teachers there make a big deal about it?</p>
<p>It depends on the professor. Some have no problem with it, while others ban it for all research.</p>
<p>What's been cool has been "watching" Hornetguy go from being an Appointee, to a 4 dig, now a 3 dig, and now in five short months a 2 dig. Lots of great advice along the way but it's amazing how quickly the discussion transitions from the Class of 2010, to 2011, now 2012 and with the summer seminar applicants 2013. Time does fly.</p>
<p>I've only been around for a year-ish I think (probably less), and I think it's weird to see kids asking about summer seminar when only 8 or 9 months ago I was on my way there! I'm sure it will only get more strange as time goes on.</p>
<p>:) That is weird! I looked a few weeks ago at my old pre-USAFA posts. Man, hard to believe I'm almost halfway through!</p>
<p>Hornet you'll out here at Nellis in your hot new F-35 for Red Flag before you know it. Then back for Weapons School after a few trips to Japan, Korea, italy and Germany. Oh but don't forget that trip to Indian Springs so you can do a tour with the Predators too.</p>
<p>My parents have a picture of me at the beach holding up a model of an F-15 I built. You never know...</p>
<p>Somehow I am sure you will both get the fighter of your dreams.</p>
<p>Aw, thanks for backing me up petko. :) I don't know about everyone else, but my 4 degree year really has gone by pretty quickly. It was over a year ago now that I got my appointment, a couple years since I first was interested in the Academy, and now in less than 2 months I'll be Recognized! First semester was done in the blink of an eye. I guess time flies when you're having fun, right? Ha!</p>
<p>If you're having fun now, redhead, you might just die from an overdose in the years to come. :P</p>
<p>OMG Hornetguy, that is the sweetest poem. Your mom must be missing you if she's rummaging around in your fifth grade work... :( I feel for her. My daughter just sent in her acceptance paperwork. She'll be there in June. Please be nice!!</p>