So today I finished writing my simulation, well sort of...
It runs and it works, but I still have some things I need to add in for it to be fully complete, but it is at a point where I can get with my professor and decide what data we need to collect. So it's looking like I actually will finish this thing this semester and be done with school, for a while anyway.
So wish me luck because now I have to start focusing on the paper portion. :-(