Yesterday, I heard Lee Hood talk about his time as an undergrad at Caltech back in the early '50s. During his talk, he mentioned how his first roommate had flamed out because he spent 20 hours a day playing bridge. Apparently whether it's card games or computer games, some constants remain through time.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-plaschke-caltech-20101016,0,7937895.column

Ah, nostalgia...

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For details and enlightenment:

www.mmchivitosmm.blogspot.com

Note that it is quite long, so detailed reading is not required. 

Done with midterms! YAY!

I have a bottle of sparkling blueberry juice awaiting me ^_^

Tomorrow's the first day of school! Ack!

You know how people line up for hours for movie premiers and rock concerts? Here they camp out to listen to Kip Thorne's lecture on black holes, gravity waves, and Einstein's theory of relativity.

It's been a whole week since I moved into my new room at Caltech, and I must say that I'm finally starting to settle in. Today's actually the first day I've had prolonged periods of *free time,* so I thought I'd stop for an update (I was suffering from serious HP fanfic withdrawl till I could settle down in front of a computer on Thursday =P).The ( Read more... )

Well, I'm off to Caltech for orientation bright and early tomorrow morning. I've got everything packed (I hope), and everything seems to be in order. Wish me luck!

So call me obsessive compulsive, but I've already started to pack two ( Read more... )