There's a guy who's been using the IW email for playstation purchases.

I know he's into:

• Call of Duty: Ghosts


• Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare


• Call of Duty: Black Ops II


• LittleBigPlanet

As far as I know he is not a past editor, past contributor, or anything.

It's not hard to make a disposable email for spam, why did he use this one?

Sony Entertainment Network support has been contacted.

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Term project statuses:

440: 7E/7D rerouting options (see also these two articles here) 15%. Group of 4.
Comments: Transit is very much a love-hate relationship. Transit is good! Everybody loves transit! The transit prof has a dozen people salviating to work with him for their master's! But I'm frustrated with it. Academics are not the ones who end up making transit decisions. You can work on a system you love and have it go nowhere. ION took ten years to plan and approve. Transit is a one-way road to heartbreak and burnout.
Status: Waiting for prof feedback on proposal.

460: Limitations of islet cell transplant as a treatment for Type 1 diabetes. 30%. 3-person paper, 3000 words.
Status: Writing detailed word count breakdown per subtopic. To be completed before end of reading week.

542: Motherfucking concrete overlays. 12%. 7500 words. Solo.
Status: ... I convinced myself that I'm going to tank it out during reading week. Honestly, when else am I going to write it? Chances of actually writing more than 2000 words are approximately 10%.

401: High-capacity cell tower design. Group o' four.
Comments: The only thing that makes this 'different' from normal towers is that it's got a huge ass shroud that adds a big fat lateral wind load to the 55m tower o' doom. It's supposed to make it more aesthetically pleasing but... I am having difficulty thinking of ways to make it nice or sustainable.
Status: Need enough material to write a progress report the Friday after reading week.

Ironically the only course that doesn't have a project is Construction management, which is all about projects.

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I did contact the two profs who are mysteriously somehow very interested in my application and looking at the Statement of Research Interests it's not as delusional an idea to go to UT as I previously thought. A) I can live at home, saving loads of money that I can BLOW ON TRIPS TO PLACES (seriously how did my dad end up in Europe in his youth??), and B) the potential for concrete projects, meaningful contributions, and strong academic guidance is high, but on the downside A) UT is about an hour and a half from my house, which could be bad but I'm sure I can take it, and B) I have to live with my parents and we drive each other mad for two years, or blow the travel money on a shitty apartment.

I trust Aneeqa's character assessments though so... perhaps this will go well when I meet them on Tuesday.