OK so let me start by describing the Detroit trip. For the record from my previous entry, I am currently 6-4-2 on the PTQ season with Trinity. (Skip this section if you don't want to hear about Magic...but it's my journal lol). I "Improved" that to 10-7-2 with a 4-3 finish in Detroit. Tom barely missed top 8, but I was never in it after my only mistake on the day. How crappy. Here were the results: W vs. Desire 2-1, L vs. Aluren 1-2 (mistake), L vs. R/G Goblins 0-2, L vs. Rock 1-2, W vs. Life 2-0, W vs. RDW 2-0, W vs. Fecundity Saprolings? 2-0. Woo-ee what a great showing. Of course if I want to make top 8's and ever make a pro tour, the time to stop making mistakes would be THE NEXT TWO WEEKS! Next week is the Indy trip. Speaking of, there might be a jaunt across town tonight to drop off 1 DAMN WALL OF BLOSSOMS because apparently Mike's collection which he is selling to Star City Games has to have this card and a few others I wanted to buy from him. I do not understand the problem, but whatever he can be an ass sometimes. So on to not-so-better things...
Actually let me start with the good news. Midterms came back and as usual my classmates were stunningly bad in ME. The Controls midterm average was 67 (the one I was 0 minutes late to and nobody in the class finished when time was called) and I got 88. Top grade was 90. Only 2 A-'s, 7 B's out of 55 students. Guess I will put that class on the backburner. Oh wait we have a long HW and lab report due every week in there, guess not blowing it off. Then today we get back the tough nuclear power plant operations midterm. He was really unfair in what he tested us on and I made a couple stupid mistakes which probably cost me 10-12 percent. But I digress there are 5 people in the class and the grades were 84.5, 83, 83, 66, 58. I got an 83. Well can't be too mad then. Have not got the take home one back yet, what a shocker considering that professor cannot seem to have HW's returned in a timely fashion. That one should go well, but watch it go poorly. Darn karma.
Now the bad news. So Sunday night and all day seemingly Monday I worked on the design of the rotational base of the crane for our senior design project. My design is very simple because I cannot spend any more time on it and I have to get something down that will theoretically work (even if I could use more detailed analysis or better bearings etc). My professor keeps telling me not to kill myself because we only have a limited amount of time left to complete this project...but I cannot help thinking I'm bringing the group down. Of course if Samples had not taken 5 weeks of the quarter to design the boom (which I was waiting on) then maybe I could not be so rushed. And I still have the patent search and codes and standards write ups to do as well as the final report. This sucks, but I'm still confident we will get something of decent quality for design and we should get a decent grade in the class because our project is the hardest in the class by far. But I'm totally stressed out on that...which makes spending time on my lab report and tonight my controls class HW (for 5 hours damn professor...we keep telling him to make the HW shorter and he keeps making it longer) seem like it is taking away design project time. Oh well you dig your own grave and school is not really that bad. I'm just bitching to relieve the stress...I feel so much better now.
And then today, I got my letter from Notre Dame. It did not look good as it was thin. Acceptance forms and papers don't come in thin letters. I open it up to find I got put on the provisional list. Calling it what it is, I am on the waitlist. Which means if I had applied say a month earlier, they probably would have made a decision one way or another but now I am an unknown. I pay these Catholic bastards (sorry for the religious slam) 65 dollars to tell me whether I am in or out, and they say "We Don't Know." So now I have to contact them, let them know I'm still interested (duh) and wait for another decision in April. Just for reference, I am supposed to let Cincinnati know by April 1 if I want to go there by submitting a deposit. This is bullshit. Waitlisting or provisional listing or whatever you call it, it's bullshit. I understand I was probably good enough to make the incoming class, but now they are kind of full and I am borderline. But still...they don't realize how bad this messes up your plans. What if I get waitlisted on my other good schools or not get in at all? What do I do then? Mumble Grumble Grumble Rabble Rabble Rabble!
So the update for those not paying so close attention:
ACCEPTED: Cincinnati
STILL PENDING: Michigan, Chicago, Northwestern, Ohio State
WAITLISTED: Notre Dame
DENIED: none yet (I'd like it to stay that way, but it probably will not)
So it's back to the grind. At least after some well deserved relaxing. I'm looking forward to our plant simulator tour this week as we get to actually do some cool stuff in school for the first time in a while. Well I hope it is cool. Our professor today told us the classes we are teaching and the slidesets we make have been sent to Cincinnati University where they have a similar class which uses our notesets about a week after we make them. This is funny because they are going on the tour with us...will have to apologize for the crappy powerpoint slides lol.
Have a good week everyone. Don't know when I'll be back again.
-DF
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Friday, February 18, 2005
Middle of February, Long Update Time
Well it has been a hell of a week. Let’s see where to begin? How bout I go all the way back to Sunday, that seems appropriate since that’s where my week went downhill. Well it was bound to happen this week, but my sleep deprivation and crappy work did not start until Sunday. So Sunday our Tuesday afternoon midterm becomes a take-home assigned Monday afternoon and due in class on Thursday. It looked like a harder HW set with just as many problems and the same type, but the turned out to be pretty hard (well one of them)…but that’s getting ahead of myself.
In retrospect, let’s go back to Saturday. Kelley and I had a disagreement (it was not really a fight) over how I might not be able to come down tonight (Thursday) and Friday due to volunteering and work. So I was not in the best of spirits when Mom showed up, but it was cool for her to finally see the apartment I’ve been living in since AUGUST! She was astounded at how large my room was…it really is huge. And it’s the biggest room I will ever have for sure. But that’s OK because I have a lot of crap to fill space. Wow I cannot stay on track. Anyways, Mom came up and we went out to BD’s Mongolian BBQ but they were very busy so we decided to grab some Wendy’s before the hockey game and eat out afterwards. We won the game and swept BGSU, so that was cool. It was a very good game though, perhaps the best one I’ve seen at least for edge of your seat finish. We came back and Mom slept on the futon. I offered the bed, she refused. Oh well. While I’m thinking of it, I want to mention how awesome the sports teams are for winter quarter at OSU. Our women’s basketball team has been #2 in the nation for a long time and is one LSU loss away from the top for the first time ever. Our men’s basketball team has taken a disappointing season (postseason ban, thanks Jim O’Brien) and turned it into a proving grounds that Thad Matta our new coach can turn the team around. It is the same guys as last year but we are playing so much better. We are 7-5 after beating Indiana on Tuesday and we have 4th in the conference currently…a far cry from last season’s horrible 9th place finish and embarrassing losing record. I will see my first basketball game of the year hopefully in our last game of the season against #1 national powerhouse Illinois. I hope we ruin their undefeated season, that would be so sweet. Our hockey team is one point back or tied for the conference lead with Michigan, and that is amazing. We will be getting at worst the second seed in our 12 team conference tournament so we have a great shot to play Michigan for the title which we wrested from them last year. Go Bucks!
Sunday Sunday Sunday! I woke up very early thanks to a call from my irritating friend, the man, the legend, back in black, Akil Romeo Steele. Yes his name is real. Yes his first name rhymes with his last. And yes he goes by Romeo. Anyways, he calls me at 5:50, an hour before I intend to leave to tell me he will be meeting us at Cleveland instead of riding with us. Thanks. So we all get to Cleveland. It was fun, but none of us made top 8 and Chris and I should have. (This next sentence is for me and can be ignored my non-Magic dorks out there). So after going to the Columbus PTQ and having the following results (L to RDW 0-2, W vs. WW 2-0, L to Affinity 1-2, L vs. Goblins 1-2, W vs. RDW 2-0) and the Friday Night Magic this week where I met some good new friends (W vs. Goblins 2-1, W vs. RDW 2-1, L vs. Teen Titans 0-2, L vs. Teen Titans 0-2, W vs. Enchantress 2-0)…I was feeling pretty confident about my old Elf deck. Here’s how it went in a nutshell: (L vs. G/W Aggro-Cataclysm 1-2, W vs. Rock 2-0, W vs. Affinity 2-0, W vs. Reanimator 2-0, D vs. Rock 1-1-1, W vs. Enchantress 2-1, D vs. Tog 1-1-0). The last round I was up a game and had the match until the opponent won in extra turns to make it a draw. A similar thing happened to Chris in a win and get into top 8 match. In my case it was a mistake of not tapping down a swamp. Me and my opponent came in 13th and 14th which was not top 12 where the prizes were. How lucky. He was a real jerk at the end of the meatch and is badmouthing me on the Magic websites for slow playing him which I did not really do. Oh well. (End Magic Rant…sorry much more than one sentence!)
So off to the week. It all starts with a Monday I do not remember much. But I know there was a lot of wank wank going on at the last minute to throw together another progress report and presentation for our senior design project. Berens gave this one and it was ok. I should do better the next two weeks, but we’ll see. Then it was off to Lancaster to Valentine’s Day dinner with Kelley at Olive Garden. We had a 2 hour wait, but I showed up a lot sooner than Kelley so I got to start studying for my NE power plant midterm then. The dinner was fantastic and I got a bunch of new DVD’s, so I cannot complain. It was a nice break from the hustle bustle that was only beginning. I got back and studied until 1 AM then passed out. I wake up and take the midterm at 8 AM. It did not go very well, at least by my standards. I really could have messed up this flow diagram or I might have gotten it all right. I do know a few things I did miss and those add up quickly on this test. After that test I did some more work and started working on my take home midterm. I got the first three problems done and started working on the fourth one but could not figure it out. This took many hours. Then I had to start studying for my ME midterm Wednesday morning. I did as much as I could, but I really did not spend much time on this one. So I wake up the next day at 7:22 AM. Class is 7:30 and is about a 12 minute trip from leaving the apartment to walking into class. I run upstairs, wake up my roommate and tell him to move his butt. Then we get out and rush to class. 10 minutes late, but the professor did not start the test until 3 minutes before we walked in. Nobody in the class got done with the test. Again this test did not go well as I rushed through the last problem and will lose around 10 points for dropping one term out of an equation at one step of the long problem, I skipped an 8 point problem, and 12 more points were guesses on a hard problem (looks like 70-80…which is only disappointing because I know I am above average in this class and might lose that on this exam). So then it was off to lab which is useless every week and then we had a project team meeting. If we get this stuff together it will be a miracle. Then I worked on the take home midterm for another 5 hours. I was not working hard at this point because I was sleep-deprived, sitting in front of the TV with the guys, and just not feeling great, so 1 hour of work took 5. Then it was off to small group where we talked about prayer. Yay! Berens had to wake me up the following morning to go to our 7:30 AM class late…I really need to catch up on sleep.
So finally Thursday has arrived, and our morning class sucked. After class we worked on doing the lab report calculations and graphs for next week. 4 grueling hours later, we are off to Moe’s in a blizzard. Absolute white-out. 20 minutes later we are going back to class and it is sunny and beautiful. God, that irony has got to stop this quarter in Ohio. We sat through the first hour of class and then left during the break, leaving our midterms on his desk. A couple other people were doing the same thing so I do not feel so bad. He knows he bores us, so oh well. Then back to the apartment where I get everything packed and start my journey to Athens. I get there about 5:30 through crappy traffic and Kelley and I head out for Marietta. While she did choir practice I did schoolwork and graded papers. We finally leave Marietta, dropping by a local shop for a bachelorette party Kelley is attending this weekend (gifts for the future wedded lady) and Wendy’s because we were starving. We laid down to bed around 10 PM. Let’s just say we were sleeping or watching movies or being lazy until 6 PM tonight. Heh I needed that and it was great to spend time with her. Then we had to rush off to dinner (yummy sex on the beach in large sizes J) and I left town. I almost cried on the drive back because I did not want to leave. It’s only going to get worse, but at least in 2 years and 5 months we will never have to say goodbye again like this hopefully. So I rush up to Columbus, making it to my professor’s house on the north side at 9:20 which was just in time to pick up the papers I wanted to work on tomorrow (as opposed to not getting them until Sunday). Of course this was before I realized I was driving to Detroit tomorrow for the PTQ. So much for doing work on the way up. Hopefully Tom Lapille and I have plenty to talk about, as we have over 6 hours facing us on the way up and back tomorrow. I hope I win the whole darn thing, especially after getting screwed last weekend. I’ll write another entry at some point, but you never know when so just leave messages if you got a minute. I love reading them. Have a good week! I know mine has to be better than this one.Oh BTW, I got into Cincinnati Law School this week. Still have not heard from the other 5 schools, will keep updated.
In retrospect, let’s go back to Saturday. Kelley and I had a disagreement (it was not really a fight) over how I might not be able to come down tonight (Thursday) and Friday due to volunteering and work. So I was not in the best of spirits when Mom showed up, but it was cool for her to finally see the apartment I’ve been living in since AUGUST! She was astounded at how large my room was…it really is huge. And it’s the biggest room I will ever have for sure. But that’s OK because I have a lot of crap to fill space. Wow I cannot stay on track. Anyways, Mom came up and we went out to BD’s Mongolian BBQ but they were very busy so we decided to grab some Wendy’s before the hockey game and eat out afterwards. We won the game and swept BGSU, so that was cool. It was a very good game though, perhaps the best one I’ve seen at least for edge of your seat finish. We came back and Mom slept on the futon. I offered the bed, she refused. Oh well. While I’m thinking of it, I want to mention how awesome the sports teams are for winter quarter at OSU. Our women’s basketball team has been #2 in the nation for a long time and is one LSU loss away from the top for the first time ever. Our men’s basketball team has taken a disappointing season (postseason ban, thanks Jim O’Brien) and turned it into a proving grounds that Thad Matta our new coach can turn the team around. It is the same guys as last year but we are playing so much better. We are 7-5 after beating Indiana on Tuesday and we have 4th in the conference currently…a far cry from last season’s horrible 9th place finish and embarrassing losing record. I will see my first basketball game of the year hopefully in our last game of the season against #1 national powerhouse Illinois. I hope we ruin their undefeated season, that would be so sweet. Our hockey team is one point back or tied for the conference lead with Michigan, and that is amazing. We will be getting at worst the second seed in our 12 team conference tournament so we have a great shot to play Michigan for the title which we wrested from them last year. Go Bucks!
Sunday Sunday Sunday! I woke up very early thanks to a call from my irritating friend, the man, the legend, back in black, Akil Romeo Steele. Yes his name is real. Yes his first name rhymes with his last. And yes he goes by Romeo. Anyways, he calls me at 5:50, an hour before I intend to leave to tell me he will be meeting us at Cleveland instead of riding with us. Thanks. So we all get to Cleveland. It was fun, but none of us made top 8 and Chris and I should have. (This next sentence is for me and can be ignored my non-Magic dorks out there). So after going to the Columbus PTQ and having the following results (L to RDW 0-2, W vs. WW 2-0, L to Affinity 1-2, L vs. Goblins 1-2, W vs. RDW 2-0) and the Friday Night Magic this week where I met some good new friends (W vs. Goblins 2-1, W vs. RDW 2-1, L vs. Teen Titans 0-2, L vs. Teen Titans 0-2, W vs. Enchantress 2-0)…I was feeling pretty confident about my old Elf deck. Here’s how it went in a nutshell: (L vs. G/W Aggro-Cataclysm 1-2, W vs. Rock 2-0, W vs. Affinity 2-0, W vs. Reanimator 2-0, D vs. Rock 1-1-1, W vs. Enchantress 2-1, D vs. Tog 1-1-0). The last round I was up a game and had the match until the opponent won in extra turns to make it a draw. A similar thing happened to Chris in a win and get into top 8 match. In my case it was a mistake of not tapping down a swamp. Me and my opponent came in 13th and 14th which was not top 12 where the prizes were. How lucky. He was a real jerk at the end of the meatch and is badmouthing me on the Magic websites for slow playing him which I did not really do. Oh well. (End Magic Rant…sorry much more than one sentence!)
So off to the week. It all starts with a Monday I do not remember much. But I know there was a lot of wank wank going on at the last minute to throw together another progress report and presentation for our senior design project. Berens gave this one and it was ok. I should do better the next two weeks, but we’ll see. Then it was off to Lancaster to Valentine’s Day dinner with Kelley at Olive Garden. We had a 2 hour wait, but I showed up a lot sooner than Kelley so I got to start studying for my NE power plant midterm then. The dinner was fantastic and I got a bunch of new DVD’s, so I cannot complain. It was a nice break from the hustle bustle that was only beginning. I got back and studied until 1 AM then passed out. I wake up and take the midterm at 8 AM. It did not go very well, at least by my standards. I really could have messed up this flow diagram or I might have gotten it all right. I do know a few things I did miss and those add up quickly on this test. After that test I did some more work and started working on my take home midterm. I got the first three problems done and started working on the fourth one but could not figure it out. This took many hours. Then I had to start studying for my ME midterm Wednesday morning. I did as much as I could, but I really did not spend much time on this one. So I wake up the next day at 7:22 AM. Class is 7:30 and is about a 12 minute trip from leaving the apartment to walking into class. I run upstairs, wake up my roommate and tell him to move his butt. Then we get out and rush to class. 10 minutes late, but the professor did not start the test until 3 minutes before we walked in. Nobody in the class got done with the test. Again this test did not go well as I rushed through the last problem and will lose around 10 points for dropping one term out of an equation at one step of the long problem, I skipped an 8 point problem, and 12 more points were guesses on a hard problem (looks like 70-80…which is only disappointing because I know I am above average in this class and might lose that on this exam). So then it was off to lab which is useless every week and then we had a project team meeting. If we get this stuff together it will be a miracle. Then I worked on the take home midterm for another 5 hours. I was not working hard at this point because I was sleep-deprived, sitting in front of the TV with the guys, and just not feeling great, so 1 hour of work took 5. Then it was off to small group where we talked about prayer. Yay! Berens had to wake me up the following morning to go to our 7:30 AM class late…I really need to catch up on sleep.
So finally Thursday has arrived, and our morning class sucked. After class we worked on doing the lab report calculations and graphs for next week. 4 grueling hours later, we are off to Moe’s in a blizzard. Absolute white-out. 20 minutes later we are going back to class and it is sunny and beautiful. God, that irony has got to stop this quarter in Ohio. We sat through the first hour of class and then left during the break, leaving our midterms on his desk. A couple other people were doing the same thing so I do not feel so bad. He knows he bores us, so oh well. Then back to the apartment where I get everything packed and start my journey to Athens. I get there about 5:30 through crappy traffic and Kelley and I head out for Marietta. While she did choir practice I did schoolwork and graded papers. We finally leave Marietta, dropping by a local shop for a bachelorette party Kelley is attending this weekend (gifts for the future wedded lady) and Wendy’s because we were starving. We laid down to bed around 10 PM. Let’s just say we were sleeping or watching movies or being lazy until 6 PM tonight. Heh I needed that and it was great to spend time with her. Then we had to rush off to dinner (yummy sex on the beach in large sizes J) and I left town. I almost cried on the drive back because I did not want to leave. It’s only going to get worse, but at least in 2 years and 5 months we will never have to say goodbye again like this hopefully. So I rush up to Columbus, making it to my professor’s house on the north side at 9:20 which was just in time to pick up the papers I wanted to work on tomorrow (as opposed to not getting them until Sunday). Of course this was before I realized I was driving to Detroit tomorrow for the PTQ. So much for doing work on the way up. Hopefully Tom Lapille and I have plenty to talk about, as we have over 6 hours facing us on the way up and back tomorrow. I hope I win the whole darn thing, especially after getting screwed last weekend. I’ll write another entry at some point, but you never know when so just leave messages if you got a minute. I love reading them. Have a good week! I know mine has to be better than this one.Oh BTW, I got into Cincinnati Law School this week. Still have not heard from the other 5 schools, will keep updated.
Sunday, February 13, 2005
What a week it was and will be
This week we have 3 midterms in two days fitting around going to Lancaster to see my sweeite on V-Day and Tuesday's basketball game (if I go but I'd been planning on i for a couple months). When I left you I was in Athens....I now feel a million miles removed from there. And that blows. The guys did well in Boston, Chris took 32nd in the grand prix (250 bucks) and Tom Wood took my damn elf deck I designed and won the sunday PTQ. So he's qualified for Pro Tour Philly in May and I get to be shit on again. I swear I am just as good a player as him (and he says so too) but I just cannot seem to even make the finals of a PTQ. Guess my dream of making one pro tour was just a joke, but I'm still pursuing it for a while yet.
The week was ok. maybe more details later but Kelley called. She's getting shitted on at school and I made her even more mad today by saying I might not be able to come down next weekend. Argh to my job....well I gotta go or else I will fail miseably at the PTQ tomorrow. Maybe more of an update later...sorry so short.
-DF
The week was ok. maybe more details later but Kelley called. She's getting shitted on at school and I made her even more mad today by saying I might not be able to come down next weekend. Argh to my job....well I gotta go or else I will fail miseably at the PTQ tomorrow. Maybe more of an update later...sorry so short.
-DF
Saturday, February 05, 2005
Kent State sucks
Well at least their hockey team. OU beat them again tonight 7-1 for the weekend sweep and that means OU wins the regular season conference crown. Now they just have the conference tournament and national playoffs left. My Buckeyes also completed a sweep of Lake Superior State tonight and with MSU tieing UM twice this weekend, OSU is within 1 point of the conference lead. It really does not matter, we just want to stay top 2 and we will lock that up if we sweep Bowling Green at home next weekend. Sorry Em, I hope we kick your butts.
Two straight nights of dinner at Skipper's, and two straight nights of 42-ouncer Sex on the Beach. Yummy...wish I could get drunk off it but I'll save that for Halloween or something. Mom came to watch hockey with us tonight, and she'll get another dose of hockey when we go to the OSU-BG game next Saturday. The boys in Boston are doing pretty well, Shep 4-3 out, Akil 6-1-2 out, Wood 6-2-1 out (6-0 against everything but our worst matchup go figure), and Prochak made it in at 8-1 and Lapille made it in at 7-1-1. On the day the record was 31-8-4, very impressive team outing. Too bad one more player (Wood) should have made day 2, but we'll see if Prochak or Lapille can bring home some Boston cash tomorrow. So I gotta get off here and go to bed soon, early wake up call for church. Tomorrow I have a bunch of work to do on the senior design project...I'll probably be grading papers during the Super Bowl. Oh well I've had a good weekend so I'll accept grading papers for one last football game. Have a good one.
Two straight nights of dinner at Skipper's, and two straight nights of 42-ouncer Sex on the Beach. Yummy...wish I could get drunk off it but I'll save that for Halloween or something. Mom came to watch hockey with us tonight, and she'll get another dose of hockey when we go to the OSU-BG game next Saturday. The boys in Boston are doing pretty well, Shep 4-3 out, Akil 6-1-2 out, Wood 6-2-1 out (6-0 against everything but our worst matchup go figure), and Prochak made it in at 8-1 and Lapille made it in at 7-1-1. On the day the record was 31-8-4, very impressive team outing. Too bad one more player (Wood) should have made day 2, but we'll see if Prochak or Lapille can bring home some Boston cash tomorrow. So I gotta get off here and go to bed soon, early wake up call for church. Tomorrow I have a bunch of work to do on the senior design project...I'll probably be grading papers during the Super Bowl. Oh well I've had a good weekend so I'll accept grading papers for one last football game. Have a good one.
Friday, February 04, 2005
The Next Weekend
So I'm back. I don't know if anoyone out there is reading, but I'm back. Back to Athens and since dork over there has been writing in her diary for a half hour, I figured I would join the fun :-) Of course she put up some cute pictures...except the ones of senior prom. It's ok because I could have been there, but I spitefully got another date and I have an albumful of senior prom pictures back in my house somewhere. Oh well...the days before I realized what I had. Well you may not be able to tell, but I am in a pretty chipper mood.
So I survived the hell week. Here's how it all went down. So I told myself to get over being pissed at school work and professors, and just put up with it like always. Monday and Tuesday were long days, but I got all the HW and lab reports done. Wednesday was also busy as I had to lead my first small group for Chi Alpha. Ken was out of town due to a death in his family. Anyways, I lead the matter on The Lord's Prayer (so easy you could spend a month-long set of sermons on it alone, but I just linked it to prayer in over an hour of discussion) and a follow up on purity. Heh, me leading a discussion on purity. Almost as funny as me leading the prayer discussion into spirit-filled prayer territory. Or leading a small group funny. But it was a good time and we went out for smoothies afterwards. We'e going to start a revolution...either Ken takes us out for smoothies or we revolt and I become leader. OK just kidding but we were talking about laying the ultimatum down for him...just to give him a hard time.
Just over 7 hours later...an a little bit of sleep...I taught a 2 hour class at 7:30 in the morning on electrical systems of nuclear power plants. Hajek (the prof) did not correct me but twice I think and added to the discussion a few times but it was ok. He said I set a pretty good precedent for the others in the class to follow since everyone else has to teach on another topic through the rest of the quarter. It was worth 30 percent of my grade, but the prof seemed to like what I did...hopefully an A/B. I would be ok getting a B in his class as it is very hard but very interesting. senioritis has definitely set in...as my grades will not affect my law school entry anymore. So that's a good thing. But I survived the week, and next week should not be as bad. Over the weekend I have to grade a HW and a quiz for work, but I get paid for that. I also need to find time to research this weekend since our midterm report is due Monday with an oral presentation on our senior design project. Yuck...our crane has so many problems it hurts. It is like the professor gave us very hard specs to meet on purpose to challenge us. Well we are officially challenged lol. Of course I don't really care...but I have to do my part or else John Samples (our third teammate) will shaft me in team evaluations. I don't think he respects the work I do like all the bullshit reporting. I'm writing over half the report which is what I have always done on these engineering projects. I'll put in a fair share of the work, but my strength is writing technical reports so I put a lot of effort into those tasks and menial tasks like the patent search and code and regulations search we have to do. Oh well I would rather have him because he is a good guy and he cares about these projects.
So life is good overall. I'm in Athens like I said and that makes all things better. Especially considering I had to miss the trip to Grand Prix Boston because of earlier mentioned midterm report. If you want to follow the guys, their names are Wood, Steele, Schoeppner, Lapille, and Prochak and the coverage is on the magicthegathering.com webpage all weekend. Prochak and Shep are borrowing my favorite two decks, so I hope they do well. I actually listened to the Ludacris song with the video where he has popeye arms today. I love that background music...it actually gets me bumpin. Metallica is still better, but I gotta have my occassional rap song. So I think I'm going to wrap it up here. Have a good weekend everyone. I get to see the OU hockey game tomorrow night and then go home for the Super Bowl. Then back up to Columbus for the new week. I'm thirsty so I'm going to go have a drink. Of Water you dirty minds :-)
So I survived the hell week. Here's how it all went down. So I told myself to get over being pissed at school work and professors, and just put up with it like always. Monday and Tuesday were long days, but I got all the HW and lab reports done. Wednesday was also busy as I had to lead my first small group for Chi Alpha. Ken was out of town due to a death in his family. Anyways, I lead the matter on The Lord's Prayer (so easy you could spend a month-long set of sermons on it alone, but I just linked it to prayer in over an hour of discussion) and a follow up on purity. Heh, me leading a discussion on purity. Almost as funny as me leading the prayer discussion into spirit-filled prayer territory. Or leading a small group funny. But it was a good time and we went out for smoothies afterwards. We'e going to start a revolution...either Ken takes us out for smoothies or we revolt and I become leader. OK just kidding but we were talking about laying the ultimatum down for him...just to give him a hard time.
Just over 7 hours later...an a little bit of sleep...I taught a 2 hour class at 7:30 in the morning on electrical systems of nuclear power plants. Hajek (the prof) did not correct me but twice I think and added to the discussion a few times but it was ok. He said I set a pretty good precedent for the others in the class to follow since everyone else has to teach on another topic through the rest of the quarter. It was worth 30 percent of my grade, but the prof seemed to like what I did...hopefully an A/B. I would be ok getting a B in his class as it is very hard but very interesting. senioritis has definitely set in...as my grades will not affect my law school entry anymore. So that's a good thing. But I survived the week, and next week should not be as bad. Over the weekend I have to grade a HW and a quiz for work, but I get paid for that. I also need to find time to research this weekend since our midterm report is due Monday with an oral presentation on our senior design project. Yuck...our crane has so many problems it hurts. It is like the professor gave us very hard specs to meet on purpose to challenge us. Well we are officially challenged lol. Of course I don't really care...but I have to do my part or else John Samples (our third teammate) will shaft me in team evaluations. I don't think he respects the work I do like all the bullshit reporting. I'm writing over half the report which is what I have always done on these engineering projects. I'll put in a fair share of the work, but my strength is writing technical reports so I put a lot of effort into those tasks and menial tasks like the patent search and code and regulations search we have to do. Oh well I would rather have him because he is a good guy and he cares about these projects.
So life is good overall. I'm in Athens like I said and that makes all things better. Especially considering I had to miss the trip to Grand Prix Boston because of earlier mentioned midterm report. If you want to follow the guys, their names are Wood, Steele, Schoeppner, Lapille, and Prochak and the coverage is on the magicthegathering.com webpage all weekend. Prochak and Shep are borrowing my favorite two decks, so I hope they do well. I actually listened to the Ludacris song with the video where he has popeye arms today. I love that background music...it actually gets me bumpin. Metallica is still better, but I gotta have my occassional rap song. So I think I'm going to wrap it up here. Have a good weekend everyone. I get to see the OU hockey game tomorrow night and then go home for the Super Bowl. Then back up to Columbus for the new week. I'm thirsty so I'm going to go have a drink. Of Water you dirty minds :-)
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