Official change to summer plans:

I'm not going back to California. After finals are over, I leave for a 3 week trip to Eastern Europe, and then return to Pittsburgh to work for Red Team for the remainder of the summer. I apologize to everyone I promised I'd see this summer, but working on this project is an opportunity that I couldn't refuse (especially when the alternative involves spoiled little girls and summer camp food).

I just lived through 4 exams in the past 3 days. I've got a couple of nights to recuperate, and then it's time to start studying for finals, which begin next week.

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I decided I don't really feel like updating too specifically.

Long story short: Carnival was hectic, but fun. Driving through Pittsburgh sitting on top of buggies hanging halfway out the trunk of a camry was an interesting experience. Saturday night was pretty messed up due to a drunken fight and an unlikely escort back to my dorm. If you want to know more, you'll just have to ask me yourself. Now it's time to sleep, if I want to have any chance of being coherent tomorrow- I seem to have been lacking that quality for a few days now.

It's been a crazy week.

Last night was insane. I'm still trying to sort everything that happened out...

No time to update, really- I have to help tear down the booth in a few minutes. I just figured I'd let you know I'm still alive and hopefully I'll update about the whole ordeal later tonight, if I get my work done at a reasonable hour.

We're going to California :-D :-D :-D

Prize for winning the ASME Region V Design Contest: A trip to Anaheim, CA, to compete on the National level at the 2004 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition next November.

I'll hopefully get a chance to write about my trip later tonight when I get this lab report done.

I don't know about you, but if I'm about to vomit the last thing I'd be thinking is, "Hey, I'll go vomit in the washing machine!"

Fucking lame.

Over the past 24 hours there has been 17 cases of "gastrointestinal symptoms including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea" reported to CMU health services. Food poisoning, anyone?

Due to the aforementioned event, most people either ate off campus last night or ordered take-out. I, however, put myself at risk by eating on campus due to (1) laziness, (2) an absurd abundance of meal blocks, and (3) frugality.

So far, no sign of food poisoning for me.

The week has been rather eventful. I spent a good deal of time machining and welding for Red Team's Darpa Grand Challenge entry. Everyone was (surprisingly) nice to me, except for Jim the engineer who said (upon witnessing I can tig weld and use a mill):

"Wow, who could ask for more in a girl? I can just imagine sitting here drinking a beer as you do all my work for me."

That ranks pretty high on my "asshole-ish things people have said to me in an engineering setting" list.