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Again, a week has past. Been busy working on my junior design project, programming, and writing. Here's what it's been like the past few days:

MONDAY: Handed in all my miscellaneous work for writing (glad to get it out of the way). Headed to lab to finish up the rest of my junior design project, trying to work out the kinks. Some of you aren't privy to my engineering life, so I'll tell you.

Remember those toy slot cars you would play with as a kid? Well me and my lab partner Mike are using one of those in conjunction with magnetic switches and a microcontroller so that we can calculate the cars velocity, distance traveled, laps taken, and which of the two cars won the final race. We also programmed it to detect false starts and to let the user know if the car is off the track. Fun stuff huh? Apparently our project resulted in winning best junior design project from IEEE for Syracuse University.

We really just wanted to play with toys...

Though I believe the award should have gone to my buddies Brian and Keith who designed a robotic inchworm that could be used to step silicon wafers into a helm (no gears = cleaner wafers). They did win best implementation (congrads!). Check out footage of the inchworm here.

SUNDAY: Nothing, can't really remember it. I did laundry and work. Exciting huh?

SATURDAY: Woke up at 8:00am to present my Junior design project at open house for prospective students and judges (see above). By three in the afternoon everyone who came to present was dead tired. We all left early, before the award ceremony, thinking we weren't going to win anything. Who knew!

In the eve I attended Ted's 21st birthday party. I was a fun time. Also met up with my buddy Todd who will be graduating this semester. I spent my time at the party discussing mopeds and playing pool.

FRIDAY: Stayed outside running around and enjoying the weather. Late that Night I headed to a student art exhibit to see some of my friends works. Most of it was illustration and all of it was impressive. Unfortunately I lent out my camera for the weekend so I don't have any photos to show you.

That was my week, the rest of my time was spent sleeping and working. I'm finally catching up to work. Which is good, considering how I have about three weeks left.

Goodbye for now. And watch out for food service distributors.