| | I'm at home! If you're in Charlotte and you want to do something between now and the 27th (or if you're in NC, for that matter, I have a car), let me know! | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Today I saw, "El Bicho" scribbled into a desk with some sort of knife (or dead pen, or fingernail, or who knows what), and actually thought, "what does that mean?" Then of course I said it and realized. Oh. Hhhhhh. Sometimes, I do the dumbest stuff.
Well, it does mean "tiny beast." Sort of. But yeah, maybe it was just some stupid kid playing with phonetics? It's so hard to tell.
Mmmmm...well, MIT has turned on the weather machine just in time for C(ampus) P(review) W(eekend) so that all the little prefroshlings can be brainwashed into believing that we ever have nice weather here. I'm sure that as soon as the majority of the tender young things is gone, Administration (TM) will promptly shut down the weather machine and charge us all $17 to keep on budget. Yes, sir.
Today I got a good score on a test which was exciting. Also it turns out that that was my midterm which is awesome because as a rule, I don't do well on tests here. In other news, I write like a second grader now. Style: F-.
I've decided that putting your feet up on a stool in front of you and looking between them is the best possible way to view a movie, especially if you are wearing cool sneakers. Makes you flexible while you wait! Also, don't break the deep freeze, it's old and full of freon and that will make you die. Well, not die, it's just that if you're around it, you can't breathe. It doesn't actually damage you (or so I'm told--call BS, anyone), it just suffocates you. And everyone knows that suffocation isn't damage, especially if it gets you off. Anyhow.
Hopefully by this time in two days I shall be lounging in a giant hammock or some other such bedtype contraption. Ah, rest. What a gentle evil, what a liar.
EDIT: WHAT is this crap with not accepting HTML tags properly anymore? A big FUCK YOU to livejournal! | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
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Boy does it make...and I'd say physics AND math. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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| I think I might hate livejournal.
I wish I were a real writer. | | comments: 11 comments or Leave a comment |
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| I still exist! I do!
Things about me now:
1. I should be writing my equation sheet for my exam in four hours. HAHA!
2. I'll be home Saturday night, in Greensboro Sunday, and then in Charlotte until Jan 1.
3. I'm going to Mexico for January. Spanish improvement, I think so.
4. That's about it. WOW I AM BORING.
Hmmm...call me when I'm in Charlotte.
Oh yeah. No real snow here yet. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
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| | Oh, yes, an exciting update you have all been waiting for. Oh wait, no. I just wanted to announce that I have six gmail invites (one already went to Erin because she got an early request in), so if you are just dying to experience the religion of gmail, leave a comment or email me at hanreitz at mit dot edu. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
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| | I got a gmail e-mail address. How exciting. If for some reason you want to contact me on gmail rather than on another e-mail address, let me know and I'll send you my address. Wouldn't put it here! Maybe if I start actually getting e-mails, I can get some invitations and give you guys gmail. If you want it. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Ah. I am finished with exams and I got some sleep today, which was wonderful. The day is much improved from twelve hours ago. As for RingComm, I was passed over without so much as an interview--short and sweet, no buts about it. Oh well, I guess I will have a lot more time now than I was going to for extracurriculars...or whatever. I'm coming home this Saturday--if you're going to be there, leave a comment and we'll do something. | | comments: 6 comments or Leave a comment |
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| | Today I did something which may have been stupid. I applied for the Class of 2007 Ring Committee. What this means, if I get appointed to the Committee, is that I will be spending a whole hell of a lot of time deciding what the Class of 2007 ring (the MIT class ring is called a Brass Rat) will look like. It also means, apparently, that I'm going to have to work with quite a few people who are not my usual social group. That's okay, I am loud enough to stand up for myself. I just want to see the 2007 ring not be filled with crap like the ones from a few years in recent history have been. I want to provide a balancing influence on all the frat boys (I know, I too thought MIT wouldn't have them, but it does) and West Campus girls, all the little best-friendy types who want to make the ring "cute." I don't want a cute ring. I want a ring I can wear when I am middle-aged and not be totally embarrassed about. I mean, all of the rings have a beaver on them, but that's not embarrassing, it's just different. What I find silly, and what I don't want on the ring I wear, are tons of little symbols and inside jokes which only serve to crowd the design, and furthermore, mean nothing to a large percentage of the MIT population. The dorm in which I live, East Campus, is traditionally underrepresented on Ring Committee, as are the other "East Campus" dorms--Random and Senior Haus--characterized by a certain attitude that many on the outside view as an "MIT attitude." The sort of "East Campus lifestyle" is what the MIT administration really advertises, so if/when you hear about "hacking" (practical jokes of grandiose proportions) or weird parties, you're almost surely hearing about the eastern part of campus. What MIT hides is its very normal, very high school West Campus, which is the part of MIT that is very well represented, along with fraternities, in our student government and on Ring Committee. I want to change that, if only a little. If it takes up a lot of my time, that's fine, because I am not really involved in any extracurriculars except my research, and the hours there are flexible. I want to be on Ring Committee. I also just found out that I get a free class ring if I am on RingComm. Everyone thought that was why I had applied, which was not true. Oh well, whatever people may think my motivations are, I really just want to eliminate the possibility of a really bad ring, and I think I have some pretty good ideas about getting the student body's voices weighed into the Ring Committee's decisions. Once they read my application, I will have an interview, and from there, who knows. Hopefully I will be appointed. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
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