Hello everyone, I am alive!
Hello hello hello.
MIT seems to have continued to be MIT since I left. Classes have not started yet (my two-week machining class starts tomorrow at 9am, but proper subjects lie far, far away at the beginning of February), but the rest of the mad, peculiar status quo seems to have been retained.
1. This weekend was...Mystery Hunt weekend! Mystery Hunt is basically a big, complicated puzzle hunt that pretty much the entire MIT campus participates in. It involves solving various puzzles that involve the typical word games/cryptic symbols/lists of names or dates or photos or 1970s Broadway Musicals that are linked in obscure ways, and also ones that involve cooking/dressing up as various things/giant scavenger hunts around Boston etc. There are about 50 MIT teams, some living-group affiliated, some not. I was hunting (unofficially) with the team from Random Hall, basically on a whim after my friend Josh asked me jokingly if I was on their time and I decided to answer 'YES'.
One of the challenges involved dressing 15 people up as cartoon network characters/people in the Sgt. Pepper album cover. Here, the Powerpuff Girls and others check the latest cryptic puzzle on the interwebs.
Random sombrero-man, Random blue-dress-girl, Wilma, Cyndi Bear, Yogi Bear, George Harrison.
This year's Mystery Hunt was sci-fi themed (surprise, surprise) and one set of puzzle answers was various types of alien food which we then had to make and present to the judges. Below were our wonderful "Burgers from Radioactive Cows" (beef, green food colouring, falafel, ketchup, peanut butter, shprinkles).
2. Also - it is snowing! In a wonderfully pretty way. Being from a place where precipitation is rather crystally challenges, I was obviously very .
Early in the hours of the morning on Mass Ave, me pottering along men shovelling shovelling away...
Early in the hours of the evening, passing the MIT chapel after rehearsal...
Pretty!
3. Gig season has started, yay! Yay for using my reduced rent and food money to, er, pay for $8 tickets to reasonably unknown bands at the Middle East. This week me and the gig crew went to see The Rosebuds, a sort of folkier version of the Subways. They were pretty good, and from them I must post one ubiquitous
4. I continue to have friends that put up with me, bless 'em, and until classes start we are actually able to *gasp* see each other. Here, before the Rosebuds,
, the best ice-cream joint in the Massachusetts area, nay, the world. This week the 'weird-ass flavour' specials were beer wort, earl gray tea and ginger-raspberry.
5. I continue to be alive! Isn't that great.
MIT seems to have continued to be MIT since I left. Classes have not started yet (my two-week machining class starts tomorrow at 9am, but proper subjects lie far, far away at the beginning of February), but the rest of the mad, peculiar status quo seems to have been retained.
1. This weekend was...Mystery Hunt weekend! Mystery Hunt is basically a big, complicated puzzle hunt that pretty much the entire MIT campus participates in. It involves solving various puzzles that involve the typical word games/cryptic symbols/lists of names or dates or photos or 1970s Broadway Musicals that are linked in obscure ways, and also ones that involve cooking/dressing up as various things/giant scavenger hunts around Boston etc. There are about 50 MIT teams, some living-group affiliated, some not. I was hunting (unofficially) with the team from Random Hall, basically on a whim after my friend Josh asked me jokingly if I was on their time and I decided to answer 'YES'.
One of the challenges involved dressing 15 people up as cartoon network characters/people in the Sgt. Pepper album cover. Here, the Powerpuff Girls and others check the latest cryptic puzzle on the interwebs.
Random sombrero-man, Random blue-dress-girl, Wilma, Cyndi Bear, Yogi Bear, George Harrison.
This year's Mystery Hunt was sci-fi themed (surprise, surprise) and one set of puzzle answers was various types of alien food which we then had to make and present to the judges. Below were our wonderful "Burgers from Radioactive Cows" (beef, green food colouring, falafel, ketchup, peanut butter, shprinkles).
2. Also - it is snowing! In a wonderfully pretty way. Being from a place where precipitation is rather crystally challenges, I was obviously very .
Early in the hours of the morning on Mass Ave, me pottering along men shovelling shovelling away...
Early in the hours of the evening, passing the MIT chapel after rehearsal...
Pretty!
3. Gig season has started, yay! Yay for using my reduced rent and food money to, er, pay for $8 tickets to reasonably unknown bands at the Middle East. This week me and the gig crew went to see The Rosebuds, a sort of folkier version of the Subways. They were pretty good, and from them I must post one ubiquitous
4. I continue to have friends that put up with me, bless 'em, and until classes start we are actually able to *gasp* see each other. Here, before the Rosebuds,
, the best ice-cream joint in the Massachusetts area, nay, the world. This week the 'weird-ass flavour' specials were beer wort, earl gray tea and ginger-raspberry.
5. I continue to be alive! Isn't that great.