I'm So Bad

am sorry folks. I do not update much, especially this quarter. School is heating up for a big finish this week and I stay busy on weekend between Magic and Athens, so it's all good. Just have to make it to Friday night next week alive and then I'll be good. I wrote down a to-do list for the rest of the quarter (basically next week) and I was shocked to see just how much I'll be getting done. Here's the list...
ME 571: HW 8 (HW 7 took 10 hours), Lab 8 Report all this week. Final Exam Monday next week 7:30 AM
ME 564: Final Report (50-80 pgs), Final Oral Presentation Wednesday, Patent Search Writeup (5-7 page paper), Codes and Standards Writeup (2 pg paper), Meyer-Briggs writeup (1 pg paper)
Grading Job: Grade HW 6, Quiz 6, CAI Project 3, and HW 7 over next week or so
NE 708: HW 4 due Tuesday, Final Exam in class Thursday (or take home because I have all kinds of time next week to do that!)
NE 735: Update slideset I presented when I taught class last month (let's just say this is more than a few tweaks), HW 6 due tuesday, in class Final Exam Thursday.
And I'm in Athens now and in Detroit tomorrow. Well, guess you make your own week bad :-)
So this week was good and bad. I was really busy working 16 hour days Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday went better but I got a waitlist letter from my dream school, so you can expect that did not make me very happy. I mentioned how much I hate waitlisting, so I will not rant more. I really want to pull a 4.0 or 3.9 this quarter so that I can send my new grades to these schools and show them I've been working my ass off. Oh well guess we will wait and see. Any recommendations on how I should go about expressing more interest to these schools so that I have a shot at getting off the waitlist? They say more recommendations and maybe a statement about why I want to go there, but I don't know what to say.
Trinity failed miserably again this week in Indianapolis. I played flawlessly but had bad luck all day. Record was 4-3 and I played Life (1-0 W so lucky no Sanctuary or Biorhythm in my board due to stupidity), Gro-A-Tog (2-1 W despite bad hands), Desire (1-2 L he got lucky), Aluren (2-1 W should have lost with my bad luck but I outplayed my opponent), RDW (0-2 L five Firecats beats Chalice), Opposition (2-0 W), and Desire (1-2 L). I cannot believe I went 0-3 against RDW and Desire. That is so unlikely. Tom's Trinity article hit the web yesterday which means everybody knows my deck and the surprise factor is probably gone completely. So one or two more PTQ's and the run will be over one way or another. I want at least one chance at a top 8...gotta keep playing well and the luck will hopefully turn around this weekend in Detroit. Season record is now 14-10-2.
Well it is time to run. Doubt I'll talk to you again before all my finals and final presentation of our crane project...so wish me luck! Have a great week!
-DF