Dateline 3/15

Sort of a mixed day. I just got back from an industry networking inner where I discussed the current state of hiring biomedical engineers (outlook good). It included a really good free dinner (chicken marsalla, among others) and I got to where my new sport coat that I got for Christmas so it worked out well, even though it probably won’t lead to a job.
On the academic front, I got an exam back in control systems today and did pretty good, at least beating the average. I also got my research paper back in writing class, but that was not too good. Apparently, I have great ideas and good research but the grammar was terrible. This is not completely surprising because I dashed it off between studying for midterms and never really had a chance to look it over. I seem to have set a new record for number of dangling modifiers in an essay.
In other news, I finally got in touch with AHRC and the director apologized and said that she would send in my recommendation letter by Friday. She claimed that the reason that it took so long is that she had to run it by personnel (as per company policy) and she did not get it back until recently (a convenient cover for "I forgot about it until I got your voicemail message" if you ask me) Either way, that’s taken care of. In addition, my father has negotiated me buying a car, so it looks like I am going to have ‘95 Toyota Corolla to drive this summer. He says that it is in "perfect mechanical condition". We will see.
Now I need to go draft a fabtasy baseball team in a league with some friends from Rochester...