My new hard drive came in Friday. It’s already installed, and my laptop’s essentials are up and running, essentials being Office and MatLab. MatLab being an essential is kind of sad, but such is the story of my life this semester. I got Office 2003 from Ryan, and I actually REALLY like it! Some of the auto-correct stuff has gotten smarter; the layout in Outlook is better; overall, the interface just looks more bubbly, kinda like Windows XP compared to 98/2000/NT kind of bubbly difference. Two thumbs up :D

Ed, Grant, Ryan, and I saw Finding Neverland last night at the Harvard Square theater. The theater was kind of small, not the best of conditions, but the movie was excellent. I have always liked Kate Winslet, and Johnny Depp has really grown on me too since Pirates of the Carribean, and the two of them together were spectacular. While I was really looking forward to it, I was a bit skeptical/worried going in after the Kinsey experience. That was a biography of a famous guy; this movie was the biography of a famous guy. Kinsey had >80% fresh rating; so did Finding Neverland. Luckily, Finding Neverland lived up to its fresh rating :)

It’s almost the end. I get my first exam this Monday, a take-home, and the actual exam week starts a week from tomorrow. At the end of exam week is when I fly home again. *sigh* I’ve been waiting so long for this semester to be over, but now it’s actually a bit sad. I think next semester and the subsequent semesters, the comraderie between the first years is going to change quite a bit as everyone gets integrated into separate labs, and as we stop taking the same classes.

I remember someone once saying to me that all the best things never last … “All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade away” - Fuel