Engineering nightmare

I went to bed at 4am this morning because I had to finish an assignment for my Engineering vibrations class. For those who don't know, this class is kind of like the torture scene in Casino Royale - you have to analyze the forces and rotations of objects including pendulums. We were given 1 week to do this huge assignment which was not enough time. To make things more difficult, I was forced to use MatLab to create a computer simulation of a car going over small vibrations in the road. I HATE MatLab! I can't use that program! It's so needlessly difficult and consumer unfriendly :(. Nonetheless, after teaching myself the program from various youtube videos and 'help' programs, I finally managed to finish the report. We were asked to apply analysis on the car which we owned. Out of pure spite of my lecturer, I claimed that I owned the BatMobile and found the various spring stiffness's of various Batman websites - you'd be amazed at how many Batman nerds put up information on the different type of BatMobile cars. Long story short, after I finished programming, I ran the simulation and found out that at exactly 43.5 seconds after the BatMobile hit a speed bump, the car would spontaneously explode with one of the tires firing directly into the air 6*10^78 m. I was contemplating calling NASA to tell them that I found a cheap and effective way to get to the other side of the Universe in less than a minute. However, because of my horrible lecture quality and because I was working with half the class who were experiencing very similar problems, I'm sure that the Prof will mark very leniently. And now for something completely different. I'm quite frustrated at how unresponsive my cousins are being to my emails. It's very tough organizing a trip to Europe if I can't get a hold of them! Also, the more I think about it, the more I want to stay in Austin. I was thinking about traveling up to Dallas sooner to experience another big city - but somehow that seems a lot less appealing than staying in a liberal city with all my friends. I keep asking around for advice on where I can travel around Texas in my last few days, and I get very mixed answers. Some people suggest I go camping in 'big bend' or other similar places. And others suggest I just abandon Texas and move west to Louisiana. I'm not to supportive of either of these ideas because I don't think anyone would really want to go camping with me, and Louisiana is too far away to get public transport there and back. Perhaps I'll just look at backpacking places around Austin and couch surf on some of my friends couches. Either way, time is running out and I need to be more proactive! Fortunately I've got some time this weekend to work things out! If I end up talking to any of y'all on facebook, tell me to stop procrastinating and organize my trip around the US / Europe!