Victor and I have seen these cropping up all over Cambridge. Everyday, it seems like we find a new instance of “Not Art”. And by we, I really just mean he. His camera on his new iPhone is being put to good use, at least, documenting urban not-art.
Seemingly endless supply of Poland Spring water: free (to me) iPod nano to keep me company at 2am when most everyone else has gone home: $250 Bottle of beer from the guy down the hall’s lab fridge stock: priceless I went to sleep last night at 4am, mulling over how best to loop through a [...]
Riding the campus shuttle back to lab this afternoon, a couple came on and sat down right behind me. Here’s a snippet of the conversation I overheard. Everything was said in complete seriousness … girl: I don’t even know if I can get into MIT again, or even if I want to stay here. I’m [...]
Have you ever had a class with an obviously older student who’s always attentive, takes excessive notes, and attends every single class? They’re usually spotted with a wedding ring of some sort, and they get their homework done two days before it’s due? I think I may be turning into that student. After 4 years [...]
As things pick up in my real life, my blog life dies. Normally, that’s a bad thing, to no longer have a life; it comes with all kinds of connotations of being anti-social, awkward, unfriendly, etc. etc. But somehow, I’m not sure a dying blog life is such a bad thing. It may mean that [...]
Guess what I spotted today? You know those little white-background sticker decals that people put on their cars?They usually have an abbreviation of a place on them. I first saw them when I was in Europe; cars had decals like “GB” or “CH”. I think the trend started there, but got perpetuated in the US [...]
A few days ago, I was in a bathroom in building 8, and saw a sign next to the soap dispenser that said that suppliers like foamy soap better because on average, you need 30-40% less soap than liquid soap to do the same job. Plus, foamy soap needs less water to make the same [...]
I woke up this morning and really craved a shower. Most days I have to drag myself out of bed, but this morning, all I could think about was the lovely water I would get in the shower. Well, it turned out that I didn’t have any hot water. I turned the knob all the [...]
This morning at 6am, I typed the finishing word of my thesis proposal and sent it to my advisor via email. I then went to sleep, with no alarms set, phone on silent, and no thoughts except “I wonder when I will wake up?” I finally got up around 2pm, checked my email, and noticed [...]
I’ve been a bit MIA lately because of this nasty thing called a thesis proposal that’s been hanging over my head ever since May, but that which I have chosen to ignore just about completely until very recently thus leading to massive panicking as I race to get a draft done in time to send [...]