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Times don’t change by much, at least not on the outside. My current schedule, at least to the extent of sure-ness:

Update: PE classes are now in. Now I have big clocks of classes every day except Friday! -_-

Don’t worry about the random dotted and dashed numbers. Yes, I have four consecutive classes back to back on Monday and Wednesday, a bit of a break on Friday, and seemingly nothing on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Hur.

There’s a 10 minute transit period between classes, which is challenging given the drastically increased campus size compared to high school and the fact that there are about as many people trying to get in and out of buildings.

I jumped in on 21H(not 28H, that was a typo) today hoping to get a spot in the class. This is the replacement, or so I hope, for 4.605, which wanted to three-way with 8.02 and 3.091 on Mondays and Wednesdays. We’ll see how that goes.

And now the heat is on.

Edit: General classes ready, just waiting on the P.E. results, which (just watch) will probably interfere with something. Sigh.

Cambridgeshire demanded that I be in by August 25th, so unfortunately I couldn’t attend what has become one of my perennial traditions, the Robot Battles at Dragon*Con, in Atlanta. But the crew kept it ass-kickingly awesome this year, so I’ll definitely try to make it back next time.

Here’s a video that one of the guys made, a highlights video of the good matches!

I’ll be back with a vengeance next year, I swear.

Someone tell me why I bought this AWESOME GIANT HALF DRY-ERASE HALF-CORK MESSAGE BOARD THING with the wood trim and a pack of multicolored markers and cleaner and eraser and… now have no place to put it.

The open spot right above my computer, of course, would be perfect if it were not for the LAN conduit smack in the middle that divides the very nicely fitting spot in half.

This of course calls for drastic action. I *could* just mount it on the open spot on the wall next to the bed.

….but that’s just not me enough.  The hobby machine shop has a jet cutter, and if I do it right, I can split the board right down the middle where the little wood rail joins the whiteboard and corkboard sides.

Then it’ll fit.  It’s just crazy enough to work and avoid the easy way out!

The MIT 100 yard swim test was today. Everyone is required to pass it at some point in their career here.

I did, but just barely, and the last quarter was running on raw, brute “DO NOT FAIL” determination. Which I guess the body can convert, marginally, into energy. The first 25 yards (across the pool), I was just fine. In fact, I almost ran into the guy ahead of me. On the return, things started to slow down. On the third run, I barely made it across, and the very last leg, it was just “close eyes, keep head above water, think of good things in life”.

Afterwards, it took almost all my mental stamina just to remain standing as I was so sore. But I got a t-shirt out of it too. On the back, it says “Because there is more to life than being really, ridiculously smart.”

Yes, really, ridiculously awesome and sexy. Nowhere does it say athletic!

Snuffles failsafed in the middle of the Harvard Bridge today, and I almost took a faceplant into the concrete. I didn’t, but my custom signal generator MUST be replaced before I’ll ride it again. The unsmooth Bostoncaster sidewalks are shaking the electronics apart.