THE LAZY SUSAN!!
Trust me when I say this, the lazy susan is awesome. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_Susan) Whoever came up with this idea is either brilliant or extremely lazy. A rotating tray to place on a table sounds pretty dumb right? Well wait until you are seated at a large table and need someone across the way to pass you the salt, then you will see its geniusness. I'm still waiting for an idea like this to materialize in my head, but for now I will continue brag about other people's awesome inventions.
Update: still no response from UCLA.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Catching up
As with my last post, I am in an effort to catch up to the posting requirements for my engr407 class. Matt has 7 total posts, and excluding this one and the previous one, I have 7 also. Not knowing entirely how he is going to grade it, I don't want to leave anything to chance and considering he said we can still post, here I am a half hour after class posting it up.
Quick story:
January 15 I received a phone call from UCLA's Anderson School of Business wanting to interview me for acceptance into their program this fall. After a short conversation, I was left under the impression that I would receive an email or phone call within a week to outline the interview time and details. A week later, I emailed the director of admissions to ask what the situation was. Three and a half months later I recieved two phone calls and two emails, all while in class, asking to interview me. First, I was pissed that they would just call and pretend like they hadn't completely ignored and forgotten about me, but that I realized I had an interesting situation at hand. I am all but packed to go to UVA's Darden School of Business in August, but tuition there is $45,000 a year. OUCH! So I had my interview with UCLA on the phone and presented an ultimatum (sp?) "The only way I will come to UCLA is if I am given a full scholarship." My exact words. Well I was told after the convo to expect a reply within the week. A week and a half later, still no response. Hopefully they are just getting together my scholarship papers, but very doubtful.
Quick story:
January 15 I received a phone call from UCLA's Anderson School of Business wanting to interview me for acceptance into their program this fall. After a short conversation, I was left under the impression that I would receive an email or phone call within a week to outline the interview time and details. A week later, I emailed the director of admissions to ask what the situation was. Three and a half months later I recieved two phone calls and two emails, all while in class, asking to interview me. First, I was pissed that they would just call and pretend like they hadn't completely ignored and forgotten about me, but that I realized I had an interesting situation at hand. I am all but packed to go to UVA's Darden School of Business in August, but tuition there is $45,000 a year. OUCH! So I had my interview with UCLA on the phone and presented an ultimatum (sp?) "The only way I will come to UCLA is if I am given a full scholarship." My exact words. Well I was told after the convo to expect a reply within the week. A week and a half later, still no response. Hopefully they are just getting together my scholarship papers, but very doubtful.
Project Showcase
As I am sure most teams found, articulating an idea to a group of strangers is quite difficult, especially if they do not quite get what your idea is. I came across this a couple times and after several attempts to explain, I finally just had them try to guess how many m&m's are in the jar.
Overall, everything went well. We were handicapped on the first go around of judges because only a few members of our group were there. The second time around, we didn't see them coming and most of us were already engaged with others, which left Austin as the lone gunman. Of anyone in our group, he was probably the best to do it, but still, they took us by surprise and by the time we got over, he was balls deep in the presentation. I can't say that I am happy with our 4th place finish, our entire team put a lot of effort into it, but we did all that we could and I'll have to take what they give us.
Overall, everything went well. We were handicapped on the first go around of judges because only a few members of our group were there. The second time around, we didn't see them coming and most of us were already engaged with others, which left Austin as the lone gunman. Of anyone in our group, he was probably the best to do it, but still, they took us by surprise and by the time we got over, he was balls deep in the presentation. I can't say that I am happy with our 4th place finish, our entire team put a lot of effort into it, but we did all that we could and I'll have to take what they give us.
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