NG 05/22/2023

    Blog Day 11

    I technically finished my senior project today because I hit the hours requirement! Looking at it now, 75 hours is a lot. I woke up this morning and got right to work doing some review on charting skills that needed to be relearned because I forgot over the weekend. This included courses including current and wind, I couldn’t remember when I had to do conversions and make triangles on the chart. I worked mainly in the Chesapeake Bay chart because it’s the area I’m least familiar with. When the questions tell me about a landmark, it’s hard to find where it is because I don’t know the area. After my morning session, I took a 100-question practice test on the rules of the road to make sure I hadn’t forgotten anything there. I printed some documents I needed to fill out and looked for help from fellow mariners on Reddit. I’ve found the r/merchantmarieners community to be very helpful when it comes to quick questions. I have so many random papers with my signature on it I’m not even sure I need them all but it’s better to be over-prepared than not prepared at all. 



Today’s Hours: 6

Total Hours: 77.5

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