This week was what most people call "the nitty gritty". We had to finish and perfect our Enmodes presentations all in less than 48 hours. For team Michelangelo, the struggle was a lot more real. We had come up with a new idea, and since over half of our team members were procrastinators; We were starting from the bottom. Most of our spirits were crushed, some blows were thrown, and there was lots of blood and vomit everywhere.
On Tuesday, we were quite hopeful, ya know. Staying until 10pm didn't seem all that bad. We had all the time in the world. Wrong. We were so wrong. After our first meeting with the professors our pride was nonexistent. And it only got worse the hungrier we got. At one point I'm sure I heard someone crying in the bathroom. The desks were trashed with failed sketches, terrible calculations, caffeine cans and coffee mugs. Regardless of the working conditions we persisted on.
The next day, we had just enough sleep that we managed to scavenge up some pride and optimism. We just had to gather the courage to present our shitty ideas in room full of professionals. No big deal. It was. It was a very big deal. We were still very unprepared. The room looked like a battle scene. Everyone had their laptops plugged into power cords, and at one point the the power went out in the whole building. Everyone was screaming and crying. We all lost our stuff. At 12am we decided to call it quits and just throw together whatever we could.
The realest part of this story is that two of our teammates failed to show up to the bus on the day of the presentation and Dr. Wasser had to kill a lot of time. It was so adorable.
I lied. Here's a happy picture of us not dead.
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