Apr 17 2012

11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome

Posted in: Visit, Life & Culture

What up, y'all? I don't go to MIT anymore!

...okay, so I work here, and I'm actually on campus about as often as when I was still a student. Whatever. It ain't the same.

For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world, I am old and retired. I was Course 9, and now I'm a research assistant in a cognitive science lab (the very lab Lydia blogged about in her post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said that I was Senior Haus; I was president in 2008, ran Steer Roast in 2009, took all of the pictures of all of the things, and own so many variations of the Sport Death shirt that at this point it's probably cheaper to just turn myself into a giant skull.

Long story short, I loved living there. It was my home. And before moving into my temp dorm as a freshman (spoiler: I didn't stay) and checking out Senior Haus during REX, I'd never imagined that that it would be the place for me. If... read the post »

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Jul 26 2010

In which I screwed up a lot

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Things you should not do on Athena, not even accidentally, because it will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ever: Delete your Public folder. Even if you try and fix it two minutes later and create a new Public folder and put everything back in your Athena locker, the damage will still be done.

So here's a lesson for you: never delete your Public. NEVER DELETE YOUR PUBLIC. If you are trying to delete an item in your Public that you do not want there anymore and you have done this a thousand times before and twelve times already that morning, you will probably accidentally delete the entire folder anyway and then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that mocks you all the time will point and laugh at you for ten million years.

JUST THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW.

Anyway, half the photo posts on my blog are full of broken links. What up, guys. I got a degree from MIT and it has taken me two months to figure out how to fix my broken... read the post »

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May 27 2010

Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT

Posted in: Best of the Blogs, Life & Culture

I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week before my eligibility for student employment runs out, and I vaguely recall reading the post two days after I got to campus and swearing to live by it while I was here.

32. Take a lot of pictures. One of my major regrets in life is that I didn't take more pictures in college. My excuse was the cost of film and processing. Digital cameras are cheap and you have plenty of hard drive space, so you have no excuse.

22. Take some classes that have nothing to do with your major(s), purely for the fun of it.

41. Make a complete ass of yourself at least once, preferably more. It builds character.

37. In the long run, where you go to college doesn't matter as much as what you do with the opportunities you're given there. The MIT name on your resume won't mean much if that's the only thing on your resume. As a student here,... read the post »

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May 21 2010

LOOK AT THIS.

Posted in: Miscellaneous

I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page:

SUCCESS AT LAST.

(Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

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Apr 28 2010

MIT and the SAA

Posted in: Miscellaneous

I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4 AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of KeyboardFace™. It you're not sure what KeyboardFace™ is, it's exactly what it sounds like.

Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim test last month.) This morning was out of the ordinary, though, because my KeyboardFace™ wasn't caused by one big epic scientific fail for once.

If you're anything like I was before I left my soul behind and enrolled at MIT, you're probably really into art. You're probably a huge nerd with a love of all things scientific, too, or you probably wouldn't have applied to MIT in the first place. And now that you're in and you've sent off your reply card (send off your reply card and come here, by the way, mmmk?), you're steeling yourself to leave all your cameras and sketchbooks and paints behind and to dive headlong into four... read the post »

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