I lost my cell phone … again, except this time I am not all that much at fault.  I did leave it sitting on the steps of the student center, but only for a couple of minutes before I realized that I had left it.  When I went back, it was gone.  I called it; Jack called it; other people called the phone, never an answer.  I talked to Verizon, and they told me that outgoing calls were being made from the phone, and a girl I know emailed me apologizing for having missed my call.  Why would the person make those outgoing calls?  Why would they call this particular girl?  Why is MIT such a sucky place?  Not to harp on UVA’s Honor Code any more, but this would have never happened at Virginia.  You can call me naive or idealistic all you want, but I am absolutely certain that this would have NEVER happened at UVA.  Honor just carries much more weight in students’ minds.

On top of this, my laptop caught a virus.  A virus that Hector IMed me, no less. Me being my overly eager self thought, “oh look, Hector IMed a picture, how nice”, so I clicked on the link, and the rest is history.  I realized it was a virus as soon as it happened, and I wanted to bang my head against the wall for how stupid I was.  Because of the virus, Windows refused to boot up and I had to reformat and reinstall.  Royal pain, but it did force me to reformat and clean up, which I have been meaning to do for a while.