11/22/13...and the night before

OK, before I talk about the great things that happened today, I need to tell you a little story about last night.

So I've been really stressed with this entrepreneurial project, mainly because 1 professor just wouldn't green light the idea, and it was all for quite stupidly specific things. One being "well you can't lift a tire with cardboard." "So what's the coefficient of friction that you need in order to get the tire to slide?" And other overly specific things. All the other groups didn't have to give super specifics when they were trying to greenlight their idea. Oh, and this wasn't at the time of actually building the thing, it was when we were just trying to get the idea approved. Oh, and now we have 2 weeks to build a working prototype, and we can't start construction until we get the idea approved.

So I'm in the shower, knowing that tomorrow (today) was the last day we could get it approved. I'm stressing, knowing that my group and I need to get a final plan of attack, and we had to do it before class started. Then I remembered, I was meeting with my marketing group to work on our marketing project before that class. I lean over, rest my head against the shower wall, and...well...here's how I can describe it.

For about 2 minutes, all the thoughts in my head, all the thinking, all the worries, all the stress, just stopped. All I was aware of was the sound of the water running over me, and even then I wasn't fully aware of that until maybe 1 minute in. Then when I realize where I was and what I was doing, I finished showering and stepped out to dry off. As I look into the mirror, I became very fascinated by the facial expressions I could do. I was fascinated by the way my muscles altered my appearance. I stood there, playing with my reflection for probably 10 minutes, involving my hand and the towel after maybe 3-4 minutes. I was out of it. Then when I got out of the bathroom, I was fascinated by all the stuff in my room. I walked over to the pringles can, being cautious because I wasn't sure what it was capable of. Then when I noticed that the lid made a certain noise, I played around with it and eventually played "Under the Sea" on it. I did some other things until I decided it was bed time, but I was like a caveman discovering the world.

I'm not entirely sure what happened, but the best way to describe it was "my brain had a blue screen of death and it rebooted in safe mode. Really. Normally, I have like 3-5 "programs" running in my head at once, all competing for "resources." In safe mode, everything was quiet. My thoughts were completely silent. There was no filter for the sensory input, and it was interesting. I also couldn't talk. I don't know if I just didn't want to, or temporarily forgot how.

Well I went to bed, and when I woke up, things felt nice, like no stress. I tried "running" "entrepreneurial.exe" but it just wouldn't "run." Wow. Crazy. I was able to really do well with my group with our marketing project.

Then I get to the engineering campus, and I still can't get "entrepreneurial.exe" to "run." I tell my group members, "guys, this class finally bested me. Here's what happened last night, and I can't get 'entrepreneurial.exe' to run." Being engineers, they understood my jargon. They were able to present the idea well, well enough to get approved. Though that might have been the professors meeting before hand and saying "look, they aren't going to create the next great product, just let them continue so they can learn the rest of the process." Either way, approved.

Now for my really good news. Part of the project requires us to figure out the measurements needed for our lever. After a semester of reading, writing, and trying to prove our idea, I finally get to use math. I was so happy. I missed math.

I went to the pokemon league for the first time in weeks. It felt good to play again, even if I essentially did nothing but lose. I admit that I'm the worst trainer in our league. I don't care. I have fun and I still get badges. Later.

11/21/13

Today, well I really don't want to go through it. Had report prep and spent hours working on projects. I did laundry after being a "foul bachelor frog" for about a week. Had a college republicans thing, but so tired can't remember the guy's name that gave a speech. Later.

11/19/13

Another day, another oiy. My throat hurt. My nose was running some. But worst of all, I had pain in my abdominal. At first I was worried. Now, I'm thinking it might be me losing weight. I had report prep and management. Management was with an APICS meeting. That was interesting. At the meeting, my professor was the one giving the presentation and he canceled next week class right then and there. Cool. My group and I worked on our project, with that we basically proved that our product worked. Also, with hitbliss, I can now get breaking bad. Never saw it, but since I can get it for free legally, I thought I'd try it. Seems pretty good. Later.

11/18/13

Today was a crazy Monday. It hit me like a high speed train. I got up early to work on a project. Then after working on it for about 2 hours, still kind of got the "that's not good." So now we worked on some other stuff. We came to the realization that we've been marketing it all wrong. We fixed some problem points and rewrote the mission statement. Now all we'll do is video it working and then we will get the go ahead, mark my words. Later.

11/14/13

Today was fine. In report prep we worked on our survey project. After that we worked on our entrepreneur project. I'm looking forward to actually getting a "that's good" after 10 weeks of "no that's stupid." I worked with my filmmaking group president to try to get a room for the next semester. Later at night there was a movie night at the honors college. We watched Monsters University. Good movie. Later.

11/13/13

Today, well Wednesday. I had Entrepreneurial and Marketing. In entrepreneurial, we finally got our professors to say "well now that's interesting, I might buy that." We still need to do some fine tuning, but we might just have it. At this point, one of my partners and I both said "we're done trying to fix this as we would. Now, we're just going to do this so we can get a good grade. After we graduate, we'll take our rejected ideas to market and sell hundreds. People liked the idea and said they'd buy it." Maybe it's for the best. Our school rejects our ideas, well we still own the intellectual property then. It's like with Steve Wozniak and how HP said "personal computer, that's a stupid idea, we're not going to put our name on that, keep it." Who knows. I also watched "The Breakfast Club." Amazing movie. Might need to review it. Later.

11/12/13

Today was interesting. I had a test in report prep. Unfortunately I burned my self out studying for my marketing test so I didn't do the level of studying I wanted to do for it. Thankfully, my professor decided make it a group test. Being a group test, we dominated. Then I did some work on my management stuff. I had management. It was really cold. So when walking back to my dorm, I went full Kenny. Later.

11/11/13

Today was quite busy. I had to finish reading what I needed to for my marketing test. Finished it basically right before the test. I think I did really well on the test though. I'll be called out as a curve wrecker like every other test. As a multiple choice test, I could tell that my professor was running out of options with a couple of questions. One questions had 2 answers that were exactly the same, except the difference was "corporate" and "orporate." Yeah, a couple of people asked him if it was a typo, and he was like "no, it's intentional, and there's no such thing as 'orporate.'" There was another question of "Why will Black Friday stay alive as a concept?" One of the answer was "because [the professors] career depends on it." L laughed at that one. Funny. I came back and did some studying for my test tomorrow in report prep, and I did some, but not nearly enough to say "I'm ready," but I just couldn't finish it. I was just to burned out. Later.

11/7/13

Today was rough. I only had report prep, but after that I spent most of the day working on my design project and revising my part for the marketing paper. I spent hours working on both. Part of the design project is we have to show our projects to people and get feedback. I put my other group members in charge of that one. I've been doing a lot of the work, so skipping out on that was no problem. It was kind of funny. After they gathered their data, they came to my room and gave me the info. I normally don't wear my vest and hat when I'm just sitting in my room. When I answered the door, they were all "woah, this is the first time I've ever seen you without the vest and hat." Yeah. Later.

11/6/13

Today was ok. I had my entrepreneurial class and marketing class. Both fine. I filmed the commercial for my marketing project and edited it in less than an hour. It was kind of funny, we spent more time trying to find the guy's house we were filming at than actually filming. It turned out decent. We aren't graded on the quality of the production, we're graded on if we managed to convey a message and actually made a commercial. The video quality kind of sucks, the audio is pretty terrible, but it works. Later.

11/4/13

Today was quite normal. I worked on projects. I had marketing. I updated my information at the health center. Good news, I got my cafepress store up and kind of running. Still working out how cafepress works. Enjoy my humor shirts. Later

11/2/13

Today was really nice. I didn't have much homework today because, well lucky break in homework. I did some catch up on marketing notes. I skyped my parents. I called my grandparents, both sets, and wished one set happy birthday and thanked the other set for the Halloween card. I cleaned my dorm, which basically was gather up all the paper I don't need and the empty water bottles and recycle them. You can now walk around without worrying about stepping on something. I was kind of planning on doing laundry, but I decided to wait on that. Later.