My UVA email account still works. If you search for me in the UVA directory, I’m still there, along with my status as an “undergraduate student,” my email alias, and my webpage address (on the UVA server of course). If you search MIT, I’m there too, with a little “G” designating my uncertain graduate status. Maybe UVA’s just really late in the game of deleting folks out of their database. Ryan just said to me yesterday that he wished UVA would just get done with it and delete us out of the system. Part of me wishes that, but a greater part of me am really glad it’s not yet gone. I can’t imagine how it would feel to finally realize that they’ve flushed me out of their system entirely.

On the other hand, MIT’s not that bad of a place. I’m having a good time meeting new people, but I also think that these first few days, people aren’t really themselves. It’s like the first few days of college; everyone goes into friend-meeting mode. Nevertheless, I’m glad to have made a few friends, and I feel so free these days walking around with no responsibilities. Too bad classes start tomorrow. It’s as Jump, Little Children says: “But tonight, not so far above me / Tonight, I’m sleeping under this utopian sky / And I don’t ever want to wake up / Please don’t wake me up”

Yeah, just let me sleep tonight and never have to wake up to tomorrow’s 8:30 biochem class.