Overheard at central campus location, while waiting for the traffic light to turn: girl #1: man, I got stuck with all the grad students in that class girl #2: why’s that bad? are all the grad students really smart? girl #3: well, actually, my advisor said that grad students really aren’t that smart girl #2: [...]
guy: You’ve been text messaging all night. me: yeah, I know. It’s fun. guy: I feel like I should pull out my phone and text you me: haha guy: but I don’t have your number me: … I guess campus pubs are no different than Boston bars. And here I thought I was being extremely [...]
Being summertime, and prime college visits season, I see multiple tour groups through campus all day everyday full of bright, young, wide-eyed kids bored through their minds and their baby-boomer parents who keep volunteering things like “my child made a foam horse that could fly when he was still in the womb. He is a [...]
Every now and then I stop at a bulletin board and read the multitude of posters on it. Because it is summer, this is much easier to do than during the school year because there are very few posters during the summer. So today, looking at a bulletin board, I was surprised to find 4 [...]
Something like this could have only come out of MIT … Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! To add to the obvious nerd-factor already apparent in the Valentine’s Day theorem above, the image itself is supposedly computer generated. See the MIT News site for the credits.
It is amazing how life can go from merrily floating along to grand rapids rushing toward a waterfall at the flick of a switch. This week, all of a sudden, with the start of classes, came an onslaught of meetings, responsibilities, issues, random happenings, and of course the classes themselves. Last week was relaxing and [...]
because there always are aftermaths. Some directly result from the event, and others seem completely unrelated. 1) I felt like a queen this weekend. I will be eternally thankful for all the caring friends who went out of their ways to bring me movies, ice cream, beer, groceries, conversations, and some altogether well-spent quality time. [...]
At a Graduate Dean/graduate student dinner event that I helped to organize a couple of months ago, I met this guy at my dinner table. Since the dinner, I’ve run into him a few times, but mainly just saying hi during split second infinite corridor passings-by. I felt bad that I didn’t remember his name [...]
My friend Clement left for Beijing today for 1-5 years. He will be leading the entire Microsoft XBox 360 team in China, aiming for a Dec 2006 (or at least that’s what they tell the media) console release in the land of Mao. This comes after only working for Bill Gates for about a year. [...]