In the past 72 hours, I’ve probably ran around and done more random things than I have in the past two or more years, easily. Orientation is absolutely nuts here. The school year is nuts too, but in a different direction.

• Finally taken Snuffles to full throttle on a smooth stretch of sidewalk.
• Glow-in-the-dark-light-up Ultimate Frisbee
• Liquid Nitrogen ice cream. ’nuff said.
• Helped build a giant… dual hamster wheel doohickey with a shopping cart in the middle. Check the Facebook album. It’s too weird to describe.
• Swam through a giant pit of packing peanuts. I’m still finding bits of foam falling off me in random spots.
• Pushed a semi-destroyed paper-mache elephant through the streets of Cambridge
• And the beat goes on.
• Way too much free food.

Things are winding down a bit, but events continue throughout the week. Classes are poised to start next Wednesday – we’ll see how that goes.

Woke up today and could barely move because I’m so freakin’ sore. Yesterday was the most random running around I had done for a long time, all over campus for various reasons, including an all out drag race down the Infinite Corridor to write “FIRST POST!!!!1” on the beginning of a giant paper roll on which were scribbled many, many random things by the EC residents (video walkthrough to come). I lost that race anyway, because my shoelaces were half-untied and any more running could have resulted in a faceplant. Which would be unpleasant, IMO.

I ended up initiating the “LAST POST” contest between a bunch of people who strove to squeeze those powerful, insightful words onto the last remaining corner of the smallest sliver of tape holding down the roll.

Someone then attached another piece of paper to it in typical MIT fashion.

Real orientation begins today. In fact, I just got back from the convocation speech by the Powers that Be. I managed to doze off and almost tip over twice, as eloquent as one of them were.