super cheesy acoustic quality in the cheap old MIT dorm caused (the giant man-bear-pig to cause) physical damage in the sheet rock of my ever so thin demising wall.

now my room is very artsy.

and next time my neighbors have sex, i'll have to turn my own stereo to maximum volume!

so some people in Edgerton think it's a good idea to have a housemaster. still others think it's a good idea to have bi-weekly social events (which i haven't been able to attend due to night classes). the new "house officers" thought it's a good idea to institute a HOUSE TAX to pay for those aforementioned "good ideas". they then sent an email ( Read more... )

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the presenting group of "artificial nature" next week in a class that i'm TA-ing wanted to put a link on global warming in the material section. consequently, i spent quite some time researching another (good) site with different viewpoints (ie: away from the norm) to supplement, so that the class can get both sides of the debate ( Read more... )

i've been shopping around a bit for classes this first week. 8 in all. i like them all to some extent, but won't be able to take more than 4. so that's 4. plus 2 listening (i might eventually have to drop 1). plus TA 1. it's quite overwhelming. but fun. i'm taking 2 interesting introductory courses. just because i want to. i don't care if they won' ( Read more... )

revitalizing a commercial corridor in NO (with enough funding for field trips etc) or building a smart city scooter (with tuition funding)?

one of the core classes i have to take is stats and the stats course in my department is the most dumb-down of all. it was totally my fault i didn't go to the test out this morning, but if i have to take stats, i'm gonna take it at the econ dept or at Sloan (i shall not try the math dept ( Read more... )

a new-orlenian told me this, which was consistent with "hoc mot biet muoi, hoc muoi quen het". i don't really know what i know anymore. i still hope to sustain some fundamental concepts for survival. yeah, that is pretty important ( Read more... )

i didn't know where i was staying into the last minute, dreading 'homelessness'. however, i was lucky and was assigned to a local host family, which gave me and another classmate a studio unto ourselves. they're so nice they even prepare food, drink, coffee etc for our breakfast ( Read more... )

went to python class. there was some 'technical problems' in the beginning, so the instructor suggested ppl either stay to watch him install stuff or leave and come back in an hour. i left to work on the readings, came back 1 hr sharp later... oh the class had already been going for 15 mins or so. pissed me off to no end. why can't people keep ( Read more... )