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Today was our suites turn to do Study Break for the floor. Maiya helped me make hundreds of salmon, tuna, and the classic: cucumber, sandwiches. We also toasted "English Muffins" and brewed the biggest pots of tea I've ever seen, with seven teabags in each! Stupidly I was too preoccupied to take a photo.
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I think today is the first time since September that my desk has been clear of junk. It has been under an 8" deep blanket of clutter for as long as I can remember and I was actually able to clean it today!. How did I clear it? Take a look at my room... |
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Today was stupidly windy. Trees blowing over, boats getting blown off the dock, etc. The first hour of our sailing lesson was therefore sitting inside discussing racing tactics - which are incredibly cunning. They then tried doing a "how to rig a Laser" demo, but it was so windy we kept being maimed by flying ropes. One of the more foolhardy members of the varsity sailing team turned up, so they threw him in the boat and pushed him off. He lasted 8 seconds before capsizing the first of at least dozen times. The instructors were laughing their heads off, and were hopeful he would do a "death-roll", but it never happened. |
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For Jess' birthday we went to Fire
and Ice up at Harvard Square. You pile up a bowl with raw meat,
fish, seafood, vegetables, noodles, and random stuff, then fill up another
dish with the sauce of your choice, then add them to the queue on the
grill. The chefs then cook about 30 meals at once on a 12 foot diameter
hot-plate, and minutes later you've scoffed it and are loading up another
bowl. This way you can get a week's-worth of hearty meals in one evening!
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It was a beautiful sunny afternoon when I woke up today, so I went sailing with Mark and Beracah (well, they went in one boat and I went in another). |
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...when you wake up again and find none of those white marks on the blackboard in front of you make sense. You begin to wonder if there's some pattern hidden in there - if these are some sort of symbols or hieroglyphics. You know the kind of day I mean...
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Days like this are another reason why I should update the website every single day: I can't remember what I did today other than a couple of hours of sailing, which was fun, so here's another dull photo of some Tech Dinghys sitting on the dock... |
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I thought I should make an effort this week. I got about half of each problem set done, and aquired two new study-buddies (brilliant timing: we have nore more homework!) |
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To celebrate my brothers birthday I went with Ricardo to the Boston Ballet's performance of Madame Butterfly, danced to the music of Puccini’s famous opera which I recently saw at the MET. Apparenty, "Stanton Welch is the hottest choreographer ever to emerge from Australia" It was a good job I knew the plot, because I was so tired after last nights stupid PSets, racing Rhodes 19' s in my last ever PE class, and walking all over Boston [hence the photo] to get ballet tickets, that I slept through the first act! [no time for coffee until the interval] |
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Soldier of the revolution, I'm told. God knows what he did - but he has a statue on Commonwealth Avenue. |
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(and bed) It's just over a week since I cleared my desk by putting stuff on the floor while I sort it out and file it. The junk is still on my floor and the desk is deep in clutter again. Funny that. |
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One of the I-Lab projects involved putting a load of motion sensors on the top of a flagpole in Killian Court, and broadcasting the data over the internet, similar to my heat exchanger. To predict the sailing conditions on the Charles, I made myself a Labview program which takes the 10Hz data, processes it, and plots the r.m.s. wavyness of the flagpole over the last hour. Only after a year at MIT would that seem simpler and more logical than looking out the window :-) |
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Isn't that pretty? The skyline glowing yellow, with a
huge great colourful rainbow. |
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This is the view when you fall asleep on the back row of classroom 4-231 in a 10.213 lecture. I guess today was the last time I'll ever get to see this same view. <sarcasm> sniff, sniff </sarcasm>. |
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I stayed up all night developing films etc., then at about 4am headed
up to the roof of building 7 with a hacker guide and a kung-fu expert
who wanted a photo of them kicking on the dome before they graduated,
and we waited for the light to arrive. |
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18th May Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
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All that effort of (re-re-re-)designing the hoodies paid off (see 19th March). They are now officially the coolest garments on campus, and everyone wants one. Graduate students, undergrads, faculty, admin. are all fighting over them and asking where to buy them. I wonder if there's room for a little entrepreneurship here... Just a reminder: everything on this website, especially (but not limited to) the logo design, is copyright! ask for details |
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I slept all morning and spent all afternoon chasing around payroll offices and travel agents, discovering that my summer plans have been jinxed by a fortnight with no available flights from Boston. By the evening I decided it was time to revise for finals, so I went to the Burton-Conner "Library", hole-punched all my 10.301 notes, then had a teabreak :-) |
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It's official. The beginning of the end. Today I had the first of my FOUR final exams at MIT. I then somehow forgot about the fact that I had three more finals in the next two days, and proceeded to spend about 8 hours in the dark-room printing photos, mainly of the CMI group photos I had organised that Tao took at lunch time. |
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Read all about it here! |
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My twenty-ninth exam at MIT was definitely one of my worst. But hey, it was also my last! Straight after the exam we went to a "farewell" get-together at the MIT Museum. Thank you CMI, it's been a great year :-) |
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Please get/keep in touch. I'd love to hear from whoever is out there looking at this site. |
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