Recent content by HokieGirl

Not gonna lie, I was really bad after the test. I looked at my drink that evening with condensation running down the side of the glass contemplating the heat transfer! But, six months from now (God willing and you don't have to retake the test), you will have forgotten most of those formulas...

Oh, it's making me sick to my stomach thinking of where you all are now. I was there in April. Only, add sobbing that I was making a huge mistake thinking I could do this every few days to the list! I would suggest checking your tabs and making sure you have your books tabbed like you want...

FWIW, I took the Mechanical MD PE in April in Virginia. I took the Lindeburg sample exam 2 weeks before the exam (I think, but I can't remember exactly) and got about a 34%. Reworked every problem in great detail (maybe cried a lot that I was making a huge mistake thinking I could do this) and...

Lily, I have a note in my book that I added that said "use when less than several hundred psi." That probably doesn't help much, but that was my guideline. Good luck!

In Virginia it was report at 7:15, start at 8:00, but then you have all of the things you have to fill out and get all of the rules read to you and we didn't get started until 8:20. Stop at 12:20, but you can't get up until all of the tests have been picked up and counted, which took about...

I can't remember what I saw during review or test, but I remember being very worried about stokes and poise. I must have seen stuff during my review that made me paranoid. If you have MERM 12th edition, page 14-6, App 14.J (especially look at the footnote), and page 19-1 have conversions. I...

I used an "expanding folding crate on wheels" http://www.staples.com/Staples-Expanding-F...DP4320:CL159733 No worries about it sliding off of a dolly since it's built into the dolly. It's a nice size and it has a "lid" to it so you could add another box on top if you wanted and bungie it...

Units, units, units. And, being careful when you enter things into your calculator. I ended up with extra time in the morning session and I went back and just double checked some of my equations. I had entered one into my calculator wrong. It was a classic error for me. The equation I wrote...

I really only studied for 3 months and I made it, although I claim to have started studying much earlier. 3 months is when I buckled down and got to it. Yes, it's a lot of material to cover in 3 months, but on the plus side, you only have to put the information in that bucket of your brain...

Okay, so what I was trying to say, I've put in an Excel file. Hopefully that will clear things up a bit. Looking only at the section of annual maintentance in years 11-20, you do P/A to bring back to year 10, which is right before you started paying your maintenance. Then you have this big...

DELETING THIS POST AND WILL RESPOND BETTER LATER. It didn't show up as I wanted it to. Sorry.

Virginia is fine with you bringing example problems solved. I know some states won't let you bring things like the 6-minute solution books, but Virginia is okay with it. Make sure you put any of your charts or tables in 3 ring binders, too. A guy taking the exam the same day as me got his...

In preparation, I would recommend doing all of the problems in the Lindeburg practice exam, but don't time yourself. Try to do each problem without looking at the solution. I would certainly recommend taking the NCEES exam like a practice exam. Do it a few weeks before the actual exam. Set...

I do hope that everyone who found out at least said nice things about you! I'd hate to hear "I never like Jeb anyway." I would hope the Green suitors would find your family before it ends up on the news, but I know that's not always the case. We had an issue many years ago (maybe 7 or 8?)...

Chuck's right. You start paying it on year 10. So, when you bring it back to "present" with the first part of the equation (P/A,i=5,n=10), you're really only bringing it right before you started paying it, which is year 10. Then, you have to bring that number back to present. Personally, I...