MIT = love.
I'm almost done with mono!!!! The trainer had me use the bike for 20 minutes today, and afterward I was nice and sweaty. 'Twas FANTASTIC. And I've been feeling much more energetic over the past few days. Wednesday I see the doctor in SportMed; hopefully she'll clear me for regular practice, and then I shall be MonoGirl no longer!!! I'll be weak as a kitten and I'll have to do easier workouts, but at least I'll be back in the game at long, long last.
Things I can do now that I'm better:
-run
-sprint
-jump
-do weights
-contact sports
-wrestle people
-have a sex life (well I've been doing this anyways, but only with people who've had mono before)
-make out with random people
-share germs
-share glasses and lipstick and whatnot
-pole vault
-exercise
-get good and sweaty
-be insane again
-extracurricular activities
-party like a rockstar
-be bouncy and energetic
-not be so much of a hermit
-visit the house during the week
-participate in soooo many more things
-go hacking!
-etc.
In other news, I am passing all my classes, am thinking about majors (leaning towards 6 with a minor in 8), have discovered the joys of spicy cinnamon tea, am dressing extra-skankily Saturday night to waitress for Deli Haus, chained a fellow frosh to a desk for the epically huge Women of the East Side Pin-up Calendar cover shoot on Friday night, am officially a pin-up calendar model as of several weeks ago when I did a solo shoot with Schmiedl, German-Canadian Photographer Extraordinaire, am going to get raped by my physics test on Thursday, had no classes today because it's a Suicide Monday/Veteran's Day, think I want to do stuff with quantum computers when I grow up, am learning about fun quantum computational stuff in my freshman advising seminar, am slowly expanding my cooking repertoire, made pancakes for brunch yesterday, have a pretty damn good sex life, and am basically just having the time of my life. To hell with mono.
From the "Only at MIT" Facebook group:
Only at MIT...
... will a humanities professor talk about "titrating" their coffee.
...do people think it's normal and even cool to wear equations on their t-shirts.
...do we have tests where half the class will pass and half the class will fail.
...a) will someone write "to the f'(x)=0 f''(x)<0" on a white board
b) will others immediately get the joke
...mistype pset as 'pest'
...you will hear people discussing their homework at a frat party
...will someone dress up as the internet for halloween. ("It's a network of tubes!")
...are pumpkins dropped off the tallest building in Cambridge and sodium is dropped into the Charles.
...will your music theory professor give you credit for doing the assignment OR for writing a computer algorithm to do the assignment for you.
...can you see people reading about quantum physics, organic chemistry or any such thing...while they are sweating it out on an excerise machine.
... will "I got caught up in the momentum" be an excuse that gets you off the hook, AND a round of laughs
(If calculus isn't your forte - when f'(x)=0 and f"(x)<0, the function has a local maximum at x, so "to the f'(x)=0 f''(x)<0" means "to the max.")
~The Bookwyrm
Things I can do now that I'm better:
-run
-sprint
-jump
-do weights
-contact sports
-wrestle people
-have a sex life (well I've been doing this anyways, but only with people who've had mono before)
-make out with random people
-share germs
-share glasses and lipstick and whatnot
-pole vault
-exercise
-get good and sweaty
-be insane again
-extracurricular activities
-party like a rockstar
-be bouncy and energetic
-not be so much of a hermit
-visit the house during the week
-participate in soooo many more things
-go hacking!
-etc.
In other news, I am passing all my classes, am thinking about majors (leaning towards 6 with a minor in 8), have discovered the joys of spicy cinnamon tea, am dressing extra-skankily Saturday night to waitress for Deli Haus, chained a fellow frosh to a desk for the epically huge Women of the East Side Pin-up Calendar cover shoot on Friday night, am officially a pin-up calendar model as of several weeks ago when I did a solo shoot with Schmiedl, German-Canadian Photographer Extraordinaire, am going to get raped by my physics test on Thursday, had no classes today because it's a Suicide Monday/Veteran's Day, think I want to do stuff with quantum computers when I grow up, am learning about fun quantum computational stuff in my freshman advising seminar, am slowly expanding my cooking repertoire, made pancakes for brunch yesterday, have a pretty damn good sex life, and am basically just having the time of my life. To hell with mono.
From the "Only at MIT" Facebook group:
Only at MIT...
... will a humanities professor talk about "titrating" their coffee.
...do people think it's normal and even cool to wear equations on their t-shirts.
...do we have tests where half the class will pass and half the class will fail.
...a) will someone write "to the f'(x)=0 f''(x)<0" on a white board
b) will others immediately get the joke
...mistype pset as 'pest'
...you will hear people discussing their homework at a frat party
...will someone dress up as the internet for halloween. ("It's a network of tubes!")
...are pumpkins dropped off the tallest building in Cambridge and sodium is dropped into the Charles.
...will your music theory professor give you credit for doing the assignment OR for writing a computer algorithm to do the assignment for you.
...can you see people reading about quantum physics, organic chemistry or any such thing...while they are sweating it out on an excerise machine.
... will "I got caught up in the momentum" be an excuse that gets you off the hook, AND a round of laughs
(If calculus isn't your forte - when f'(x)=0 and f"(x)<0, the function has a local maximum at x, so "to the f'(x)=0 f''(x)<0" means "to the max.")
~The Bookwyrm