Written on October 28th, 2008 at 2:05 am
i’m pretty homesick right now.
i’ve gotten accustomed to staying up late and taking midday naps. i’ve gotten accustomed to do work with insanely small levels of sanity. and i’ve managed to keep myself busy with volleyball, mit, and the musical that’s nearing show dates. on top of that i spend time with friends and play long matches of chinese ping pong and push ups. there is no doubt that i love mit, but right now a break would be nice… thank you for daylight savings time and for the four day weekend that is veterans day and thanksgiving. amen.
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Written on October 11th, 2008 at 12:52 am
I miss you.
three day weekend
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Written on October 2nd, 2008 at 7:51 am
Yay! I got an A on my 5.112 exam (that is chemistry for masochists)!
MIT is all about benign masochism. And last night was a busy night–and this afternoon will be busy as well. I have to worry and study for a two hour exam in physics. I don’t really want another exam… So you can take it for me (please?).
If I’m not ready for it by now I will never ever be a physics major. Today my brother turns ancient so I might go bother him tonight. Yeah, he’s in Boston so I won’t be so bored and lonely. And yay! My financial aid check finally cleared. Now I can feed myself and buy stuff and pay back the people that I owe money to… Yay.
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Written on September 28th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Every Sunday, I go buy groceries.
Every Sunday, I go buy groceries.
Every Sunday, I buy lots of groceries.
And I don’t have a car. So that means that I have to some how walk a mile back from the grocery store with thirty dollars worth of food and luckily for today’s Sunday, in rain.
Well, it rained earlier. And only sprinkled on the way back.
What was the best way to do this? Bike plus backpack, plus a small background knowledge of torque and bikeriding equals bags on handles and hanging of the backpack, riding along on a lowered bike seat, pedalling and sometimes strolling along trying to not hit pedestrians (or cars) along the way.
But that’s over. And that was probably entertaining to watch, with my legs positioned sixty degrees from a normal position and quick and strange movements and adjustments in steering.. yeah, must’ve been pretty interesting to watch.
So now, this week I have volleyball twice a week, a normal stretch of classes, lots of laundry to do, TWO EXAMS (chem is one hour and physics is two hours in the freaking evening), and an essay to revise. Not to mention a few psets and some evil demon-reading that I have to do for my HASS (writing) class.
Oh, and somehow I’m supposed to bake more pudding cake, and tacos in the middle of the week. My life sounds amazing this week. And I’m sure that sarcasm did not translate well over the internet. </sarcasm>
I hope your week sounds harder so I can stop complaining. I’m pretty sure someone here will be pulling out more hairs than I will. If your week sounds better, tell me anyways so I can complain to you about stuff you’ve already read. It’s a good thing.
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Written on September 26th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Last night I decided to audition for the Cole Porter musical, Kiss Me, Kate. And I had to sing, dance, and act. And sight sing. and dance. Dancing was terrible for me. And everything else was fine. I never thought that I’m be participating in a musical, having never done Drama in high school, but this is going to be much fun.
Oh, I nabbed the part of General Howell. So that means I sing in one song and I don’t have to dance in that number… but somehow I have to find the general in me. It’ll be fun/interesting.
So what about paper airplanes?
Well at MIT, we like to recycle paper from abandoned, leftover Athena printer paper. And since the tuition at MIT is quite hefty… The 5.11x classes get to do a nice activity to review.
Sit with your recitation groups… Make airplanes.. and throw paper airplanes at your professor. And the first one to hit the blackboard gets to answer a review question.
Yes.
I’m too lazy to write well right now.
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Written on September 22nd, 2008 at 11:58 pm
I’ve been away from home for a month now.
I’ve been doing fine on my own, cooking my own food, eating out sparingly, finding value in supermarkets, and organizing time to serve my needs.
I’ve been looking for a Christian community, search and sampling different events, seeing God work in arranging people that I can connect to on some level, and bring my values and ideas to the table.
I’ve had a quiz and an exam, multiple p-sets, and no failure yet, so I’m doing well. But this is only a taste of the evil crap that MIT will bring in the future. And so far it’s been doable.
People are really the most treasured thing here at MIT. And also three-day weekends in which you can spend with other people. I actually spent my three-day weekend writing an essay that I’m proud of and might still have some issues here or there but truly takes from my experiences and meshes that into something creative and analyzable.
Whatever. I’m tired and I just wanted to let you know that I’m doing fairly well. I just got my financial aid check so that made me really happy and I set up a monthly budget for the rest of my semester.
I really want to buy a projector, but I’m really lazy to do anything about it.
Classes are fine. Recitations are sometimes bearable. Problem Sets take lots and lots of time.
Come to MIT. It will be fun (somehow).
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Written on September 17th, 2008 at 9:16 am
I hope my dented ‘93 Camry is being put to good use back at home…
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Written on September 13th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
I’m really sad. My pudding cake that I’ve made twice before in my life… well, tonight, it was not good. And I tried eating it.
And I was overwhelmed by chewy, puddingingly, and other weird textures that made my cake bleh.
I used nonfat milk instead of milk with fat in it, and I used this portable oven thing that made a really good blackberry pie yesterday, but not so much chocolate pudding cake today. And I mourn my cake baking skills. Well. I tried. Next time I’m going to try to find a real oven and maybe things will get better. I hope.
Tomorrow… DIM SUM. YES.
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Written on September 11th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Is it sad that I’ve stopped caring about my recitation? Well, I think I’m only going to use the time to work on problem sets for all my classes and for a quick review of certain topics that were not so clear to me.
I’m currently typing this in my recitation. For you non-MIT folk, a recitation is basically a large lecture split into smaller groups for review, question and answer sessions, and practice. I don’t like most people’s questions so I choose not to listen and do other things for an hour.
Earlier this week I cooked good stirfry. And soon I plan to cook pasta and eventually tacos.
I just realized that I did the wrong problems in the book. Boo hiss hiss.
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Written on September 8th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I affirm, people need to know when to ask questions. Leave personal little trivial questions for office hours or after the class and ask bigger questions during (like those that concern troubling problem set questions) during recitation. Yeah, I’m getting a bit annoyed from that.
A side note: I finished a bunch of my psets. :)
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