Today’s class registration day!
The lineup as it stands:
- 2.001 Mechanics and Materials I
Effectively the “intro to course 2” class. Why stuff breaks. Rods, beams, trusses, the good stuff. - 6.01 Intro to EECS
It used to be that the Intro to EECS course was exclusively software (6.001). But this new course alsointroduces some robotics. Hey, Charles and robots…. what can possibly go wrong? - 18.03 Differential Equations
Learn more about why lines are squiggly and what that implies for the Universe as a whole. - 21W.747 Rhetoric
I will be able to bash you over the head with reasons why art and literature suck in a scientific, rational manner.
TechFair is also today. I swung by after dropping off my registration materials and found out just how unprepared I was for these large “career fair” type events. Things like “No, I’m sorry, I didn’t bring my resumë…” Mostly because I dropped in on a moment’s notice and also because I don’t have one.
What?! Seriously?!
Yeah, at least not a real one. There’s my “get into college” scrap-together, but nobody really cares what clubs I was the captain of last year.
So I’ll be constructing one Real Soon Now, and probably post it here also. The site also doubles as my portfolio (which I also need to set up, at least a formal comprehensive gallery type) so it’s warranted.
Anyways, it’s the last day before classes begin. In a mad dash to get in the last possible bit of work on TB before Hell, I’ll be visiting more hardware stores. “Hardware” stores, I should specify, as it seems the majority of them are devoid of a good fastener selection. ACE Hardware is where I got most of my stuff in Atlanta, and there also seems to be locations close by, so they’re on the list. Let’s see if the Boston locations are any good.
When I need quite literally one screw, I don’t want to wait 2 days for McMaster to ship me 100. It’s nice for building a hardware cache, but I need one screw like right frackin’ now.
[06:00] aarontagg: im amazed theres none at mit
[06:00] aarontagg: screws that is
[06:01] thebluehamster01: i think there’s plenty screws
[06:01] thebluehamster01: but again
[06:01] thebluehamster01: I DON’T GET ANY
Update: T.A.G Ace Hardware in Porter Square wins an internets. They had a whole section of the store devoted to fasteners (as it should be) and I stocked up on every type of screw that TB needs. I know what the only place I’m going back to is.