My OperaMIT and Life in general
Saturday, February 7, 2009 8:09:23 AM
I haven't been writing much, and there's a good reason for that. MIT is hosing (check #1 on http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=1123604&term=hosed ), and honestly I just learned (I think) how to cope with it recently. Even so, I'm still occupied by many other things and didn't have much time to go and observe things outside of the Institute. Doesn't mean that I dislike life "inside" it - in fact, I'm enjoying every part of it, even the hard work (don't you enjoy the hard work that you love?); but I'm just aware that there's also much more outside its realm.
Those familiar with me and AoNikki know that this blog is not an account of my personal life, but rather an account of people and observations in my life: my Special Olympics trainees and their efforts, my friends at UWCCR and their stories, Siam Plaza in Bangkok and its luxuries, the limbless man on the pavement of a crowded street, my Hungarian roommate, the lottery ticket boy next to my house in Phan Rang,... Unfortunately, recently everything I have to say has been about me. Let's admit it, since I came to MIT I haven't been going out enough to get to know people and observe life. I hope to fix this is a near future, but in the mean time... I'm just busy.
So the reason why I haven't written anything in the recent months is more "I don't have anything to write about" than "I don't have time to write," although the latter is also true.
After some thoughts, I decided to extent the content of this blog to "things in MIT... and outside it, too." At least it's the subject of interest to some people. I'm also most likely to shift the focus of my writing from "how" to "what", for this new implementation. Of course, I still want to write about "people and other observations," and I hope I'll be able to do so more often. But in the mean time, at least I'll give you things to read.
So, yeah, something to read! It's the 7th day after my first IAP (Independent Activities Period, I'd give you a link if I were not too lazy to look it up) at MIT! Classes started... or whatever.
Some background information: I'm in MIT class of 2012. I live in Random Hall ( http://web.mit.edu/random-hall/www/ , also check wikipedia on MIT undergrads dorm). I want to major in either 1-E ( Environmental Engineering) or 2 (Mechanical Engineering). I don't know what else to say.
My first IAP consisted of mostly radiation and coding. I worked at NW12 (MIT's research nuclear reactor) 20 hours a week, and took 2 classes: 6.096 (C++) and 6.184 (the 6.001 crash course), none of them for credit. But now I program in C++ and Scheme, and understand computational structure! I also hunted in Mystery Hunt with off-by-2-pi, Random Hall's team. It was awesome. I had an open art studio project for one week in TSMC under the MIT Western Hemisphere Project called Business As UnUsual (BAU2, check photo section for photos). I played a ten-day game with the MIT Assassin Guild ( http://www.mit.edu/~assassin/ ). I guess that was it in a nutshell.
Talking about the past is kind of boring. Let's talk about today.
My 1.016 "recitation" section was a lot fun. I actually have a journal hosted on http://scripts.mit.edu/ about this class : http://catthu.scripts.mit.edu/1016/ . An account of today can also be found there ( http://catthu.scripts.mit.edu/1016/?p=5 )
I stopped by the APO office ( http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/ ) for a while, sort of intended to help out with BookEX ( http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/bookexchange.shtml ) clean-up, but had to leave early for the weekly Spherio radio section ( http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/spherio/ ). It was my first time in a radio station, and it was really cool. I can totally write a whole story on this when I have time to get to it.
In my 7.014 (Introductory Biology)'s diagnostic test, the only question I could answer was "What was the last biology course that you took and when?" Oh well, I guess I'll have fun with this class. Will learn a lot for sure.
I got a shiny, hard-back Hitch Hiker Guides Collection book that I plan on reading this whole semester.
Oh, lastly, I love things with a website. It makes explaining much less work.
Those familiar with me and AoNikki know that this blog is not an account of my personal life, but rather an account of people and observations in my life: my Special Olympics trainees and their efforts, my friends at UWCCR and their stories, Siam Plaza in Bangkok and its luxuries, the limbless man on the pavement of a crowded street, my Hungarian roommate, the lottery ticket boy next to my house in Phan Rang,... Unfortunately, recently everything I have to say has been about me. Let's admit it, since I came to MIT I haven't been going out enough to get to know people and observe life. I hope to fix this is a near future, but in the mean time... I'm just busy.
So the reason why I haven't written anything in the recent months is more "I don't have anything to write about" than "I don't have time to write," although the latter is also true.
After some thoughts, I decided to extent the content of this blog to "things in MIT... and outside it, too." At least it's the subject of interest to some people. I'm also most likely to shift the focus of my writing from "how" to "what", for this new implementation. Of course, I still want to write about "people and other observations," and I hope I'll be able to do so more often. But in the mean time, at least I'll give you things to read.
So, yeah, something to read! It's the 7th day after my first IAP (Independent Activities Period, I'd give you a link if I were not too lazy to look it up) at MIT! Classes started... or whatever.
Some background information: I'm in MIT class of 2012. I live in Random Hall ( http://web.mit.edu/random-hall/www/ , also check wikipedia on MIT undergrads dorm). I want to major in either 1-E ( Environmental Engineering) or 2 (Mechanical Engineering). I don't know what else to say.
My first IAP consisted of mostly radiation and coding. I worked at NW12 (MIT's research nuclear reactor) 20 hours a week, and took 2 classes: 6.096 (C++) and 6.184 (the 6.001 crash course), none of them for credit. But now I program in C++ and Scheme, and understand computational structure! I also hunted in Mystery Hunt with off-by-2-pi, Random Hall's team. It was awesome. I had an open art studio project for one week in TSMC under the MIT Western Hemisphere Project called Business As UnUsual (BAU2, check photo section for photos). I played a ten-day game with the MIT Assassin Guild ( http://www.mit.edu/~assassin/ ). I guess that was it in a nutshell.
Talking about the past is kind of boring. Let's talk about today.
My 1.016 "recitation" section was a lot fun. I actually have a journal hosted on http://scripts.mit.edu/ about this class : http://catthu.scripts.mit.edu/1016/ . An account of today can also be found there ( http://catthu.scripts.mit.edu/1016/?p=5 )
I stopped by the APO office ( http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/ ) for a while, sort of intended to help out with BookEX ( http://web.mit.edu/apo/www/bookexchange.shtml ) clean-up, but had to leave early for the weekly Spherio radio section ( http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/spherio/ ). It was my first time in a radio station, and it was really cool. I can totally write a whole story on this when I have time to get to it.
In my 7.014 (Introductory Biology)'s diagnostic test, the only question I could answer was "What was the last biology course that you took and when?" Oh well, I guess I'll have fun with this class. Will learn a lot for sure.
I got a shiny, hard-back Hitch Hiker Guides Collection book that I plan on reading this whole semester.
Oh, lastly, I love things with a website. It makes explaining much less work.
