heywood floyd wrote:
Hi,
I am a college student and I am considering making my own mirror, I was
wondering how hard it would be to create a 8" F/5 mirror from a pyrex
blank, I understand that it would take a great deal of time, but is
there a good chance that I could never do it?

You should be able to. Some web sites:

http://astro.umsystem.edu/atm/

http://home.clara.net/smunch/tele3.html

http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/drmac/Scope/theory.html

http://members.shaw.ca/fvas2/

And there are many more.

Phil