Waitlisting...WTF?

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