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May 30 2011
Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two)
Posted in: Academics & Research
(I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for use by MISTI - MIT Science and Technology Initiative, an amazing program that sets you up with internships abroad and funds your entire trip - but it never got posted. I'm posting it today because it's Memorial Day, and if you can't be patriotic on Memorial Day, when *can* you be patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.)
(For those of you who don't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo. That's about all the backstory you need. Also, nice to meet you!)
You would be hard-pressed to find a piece of technology as varied in usability, as widely distributed in height, as completely and utterly mysterious as the Japanese toilet. From the bare minimum squat toilet in the ground that is commonly found in public bathrooms, train stations, and unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets that opens the lid automatically upon the user's entrance,... read the post »
Jun 8 2010
Things I Never Finished
Posted in: Miscellaneous
I graduated last Friday - such a simple statement to encapsulate so many emotions! - but I'm still not done. On the plane home I began writing the last and final entry I would write for MIT Admissions, but I realized there are a lot - and I mean a LOT - of entries I intended to write that I never had time to finish. In fact, I had a whole file of blog.txt files on my computer (blog2.txt, blog3.txt, blog4.txt…all the way to blogwhateva.txt, since I was so tired of numbering them) that never got finished, and unfortunately were usually never applicable months later, and thus never got posted.
So this entry is a tribute to those never-posted blog entries, whether they stemmed from ideas or were just introductions to things I intended to write at one point or another. Today, we pay tribute to those we lost along the way, those that were too tired or sickly or too weary to make it (meaning, I fell asleep while writing and never got back to them): the great, never-finished blog entries.... read the post »
May 25 2010
It’s here!
Posted in: Life & Culture
Some of you may remember that a few months ago, Snively and I, as well as our good friend Garrett '11, were working on something awesome. Well, we finished the something awesome months ago, but we wanted to keep it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere.
For those who aren't familiar with the i3 DVD, i3 stands for the Interactive Introduction to the Institute and serves a first introduction (or second, after CPW) to all the different dorms. Each dorm makes a short video showcasing the culture, talent, and innovation of each dorm, while also welcoming the incoming freshman class. Most i3 videos, especially Burton Conner videos, are a montage of parties, study breaks, and people running around the dorm yelling a lot set to loud music, but when we were elected i3 chairs we decided we wanted to do something a little... different.... read the post »
May 20 2010
Tying up some loose ends
Posted in: Visit
So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who weren't old. As in, not for a distant cousin or my mom's best friend from college's sister's uncle's first wife's second marriage, but to people I went with high school with. As in, a couple I distinctly remember running around with in the back of my best friend Wes's Explorer, who started dating during our sophomore year homecoming, who were both in marching band with me (she plays clarinet, he plays bari sax), and who wore matching homemade Jedi costumes for Halloween our junior year. Wes once shot the guy in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that they're getting married, it's just a funny story.)(Which, uh, wasn't actually that funny at the time. Sorry, Dustin.)
The point is that they're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I checked that was something that only grown-ups did. (Also... read the post »
