All Winding Down… I Hope

Well, I think I can breathe a little easier now. These last couple of weeks have been pretty painful, and the end seems to be in sight. That business project I was talking about before ended up being something like 45 pages long, but we cut out some of the exhibits and stuff, so it’s now only 36 pages. You can find it here if you want to take a read. The stress was compounded even more this weekend because my group had to do the presentation for the project on Monday. So when the thing was all finished up and handed in on Friday, we basically spent the better part of the weekend planning out and practising the presentation. It had to be 15 minutes and no longer with 10 minutes for questions. Pretty tough considering all the information we had to present. We managed to get everything in I think, but the presentation itself was quite the story. When we got to the lab on Monday, the TA was first of all late (we all suspect he may have been doing some slight boozin’… he’s probly Irish), and then he ended up not having the key to the cupboard where all the a/v equipment was kept. So both we and the other group weren’t able to do the presentation. This was of course his fault as he was obviously supposed to be prepared. Anyway, he ran around trying to find a key and stuff, and some of the other students in the lab ran around the building trying to find a room with an open a/v cupboard. At last, a half hour into the class mind you (80min total for the lab), we find a room and all move over there. By the time we get there, we’re bordering on 50 minutes left in the class, and two groups had to present (we were presenting second). Oh, and the computer in the room just happened to be a complete pile of crap (who in the right mind still uses Win98 AND Office 2000?), so it froze between presentations. 20 minutes left. Great. So we bust through it and we still think it went pretty well. Hey, at least this way the TA will hopefully mark us more leniently.

On the same note though, from each lab (something like 50 total in the BBA program) a group is selected to go to the next round of presentations. From there, the top 5 or so get selected to go to the final round where they have to present to a panel of professionals. La de da… except there’s prizes (some cash… yea yea). From the groups in our lab, and not to sound cocky or anything, but it looks like our group is going to at least go on to the next round. Good news I guess. The bad part is though, these presentations land on the weekend of the 28th of March, the same weekend as the FIRST Robotics Canadian Regional. I had really hoped to be able to attend, but with this whole venture project competition thing going on, I don’t know if I can make it. Ah well, from what I’ve seen, Woburn has yet again built another great robot (drove it a couple of weeks back… fast as a mother…). Hopefully those guys will take home the gold this time.

Anywho, it looks like the school year is pretty much winding down. Just one last midterm/semi-final left for me to write on Saturday – Physics. I think it’ll be aight, gotta get cracking on it. Have a lab to write up and a computer assignment to finish by Friday, but I think everything will go ok.

Oh my goodness… and the weather! Dude, nothing like 15+ degree weather in the middle of March. Love it. Even threw the baseball around on the weekend for a bit. Man is my arm out of shape. Not even doing any hard throwing and it was pretty sore yesterday. Oh well, I guess that’s what comes with taking a season off. Can’t wait to get back on the field. What’s going on with the teams this year anyway? We should just do the TS team… haha… wouldn’t that be funny. Either way though, there will be the house of Tan in the infield. Definitely some good times ahead.

"I'm scared daddy, too scared to even wet my pants."
"It's okay son, just relax and it'll come." - Ralph and Clancy Wiggum