Greetings from 5am in Back Bay/12:10am in Orlando
Hello everyone. How are you all?
Today is the last day before spring break. Hence why it is feck-o'clock in the morning and I am sitting on my beautiful view-of-Fenway-Park Boston-townhouse bedroom floor with a giant can of Monster energy drink and the remains of my thermodynamics homework.
It has reached the point in the morning where, while I am perfectly able to solve the governing equation of temperature distribution for a finite fin using appropriate adiabatic boundary conditions, I cannot finish my problem set because I am unable to do simple algebra.
Fail.
So, y'know, it goes. In four hours I'm scheduled to sleepily give an in-class presentation. After that...
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So, that was the half-lj post I wrote early friday morning before accidentally passing out on my homework, frantically finishing it, then only handing in half of it because I left three sheets of paper at home.
But who cares? Right now, I am in Florida(!!!). As an explanation to people that I may have forgotten to tell how/why I'm in sunny FL for spring break; my roommate's parents decided that for his 21st they'd take him and a friend on vacation for a week. And since I am pretty much Kel's plus-one for everything (rooming, studying, events at which he has to pretend to be straight etc), I get a handy mostly-free trip to Orlando.
I am so glad to leave Boston for a week. Here it is overcast but deliciously warm, unlike the blindingly bright, cold Northeast. I also get to wander around all day doing touristy things that mostly involve sea creatures, which is perfectly grand with me. SeaWorld, however, have gone a bit too Disney for my taste. Do I want to see whales with acrobats + theme songs + cheesy slogans about peace, love and understanding? No, I would just like to see whales, thank you very much. I mean, Seaworld spend a lot of money on conservation and research, so fair play to them. But as a kid weaned on bloodthirsty Attenborough nature programs (y'know, where the penguins eat the fish and the seals eat the penguins and the orcas eat the seals and Sir David tells us all how extraordinary it is), I find it a little sad that people feel they have to make the natural world seem fluffy and wholesome to get people to care about it.
But meh, that's just my personal gripe. Can the MIT girl enjoy a theme park without overthinking it? Hell no! But tomorrow we're going to the everglades. On a boat! Seeing turtles and manatees! :) I think I may be fairly happy right now.
Happy Spring Break (or essay time...whichever...) to you all.
( <3 )
Today is the last day before spring break. Hence why it is feck-o'clock in the morning and I am sitting on my beautiful view-of-Fenway-Park Boston-townhouse bedroom floor with a giant can of Monster energy drink and the remains of my thermodynamics homework.
It has reached the point in the morning where, while I am perfectly able to solve the governing equation of temperature distribution for a finite fin using appropriate adiabatic boundary conditions, I cannot finish my problem set because I am unable to do simple algebra.
Fail.
So, y'know, it goes. In four hours I'm scheduled to sleepily give an in-class presentation. After that...
end of message
So, that was the half-lj post I wrote early friday morning before accidentally passing out on my homework, frantically finishing it, then only handing in half of it because I left three sheets of paper at home.
But who cares? Right now, I am in Florida(!!!). As an explanation to people that I may have forgotten to tell how/why I'm in sunny FL for spring break; my roommate's parents decided that for his 21st they'd take him and a friend on vacation for a week. And since I am pretty much Kel's plus-one for everything (rooming, studying, events at which he has to pretend to be straight etc), I get a handy mostly-free trip to Orlando.
I am so glad to leave Boston for a week. Here it is overcast but deliciously warm, unlike the blindingly bright, cold Northeast. I also get to wander around all day doing touristy things that mostly involve sea creatures, which is perfectly grand with me. SeaWorld, however, have gone a bit too Disney for my taste. Do I want to see whales with acrobats + theme songs + cheesy slogans about peace, love and understanding? No, I would just like to see whales, thank you very much. I mean, Seaworld spend a lot of money on conservation and research, so fair play to them. But as a kid weaned on bloodthirsty Attenborough nature programs (y'know, where the penguins eat the fish and the seals eat the penguins and the orcas eat the seals and Sir David tells us all how extraordinary it is), I find it a little sad that people feel they have to make the natural world seem fluffy and wholesome to get people to care about it.
But meh, that's just my personal gripe. Can the MIT girl enjoy a theme park without overthinking it? Hell no! But tomorrow we're going to the everglades. On a boat! Seeing turtles and manatees! :) I think I may be fairly happy right now.
Happy Spring Break (or essay time...whichever...) to you all.
( <3 )