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I am really late posting this but I am very happy for the 5 teams that were accepted into the CHI student design competition from IU. We know Michigan has 3 so that makes IU the dominate school in the competition. :)

I wasn't on one of the accepted teams but I am still going to San Jose, CA to support my classmates and to network. I am looking for internships now and will be looking for a job next year.

It should be a good time. I think we are all going to stay at the same hotel so we will be able to organize social activities while we are there.

I am probably going to take a few additional days in San Fransisco afterwards.

It seemed like everywhere I went today there were plastic buckets or plastic sheets to catch water leaking from the roof. It sort of reminded me of times after a hurricane. Often people would loose pieces of their roofs and have to put tarps on their roofs to keep the rain out.

Here it wasn't rain but melting snow on the flat roofs of the laundrymat and the mall. Many of the stores in the mall had tarps and buckets inside the store. Probably the worst was a jewelry store outside of Target. They had damage to the facade of the store and a tarp ramp leading to a huge gray rolling trash bin.

I went to the card store to pick up some cards for a few upcoming events and they had plastic tarps and buckets everywhere. I was surprised they were still open since water could quickly ruin most of their stock. They had some sections of cards covered so water wouldn't splash on them.

I talked to the lady working in the card store and she said there was a huge crack in the roof of the mall and when it went above freezing the accumulated snow started to melt and you know the rest of the story.

I could relate to the problem but in a different way since I usually associate problems like leaky roofs with hurricanes or really strong thunderstorms.

It is warming up a bit here today was in the 40s which compared to 10s and 20s is pretty nice weather. The snow is melting and will probably be gone soon and as long as it doesn't freeze at night and create ice patches things will be good.