Apr 18 2012

DDR Tetris

Posted in: Life & Culture

Last September, Matt blogged about this crazy contraption that my stand partner in the MIT Symphony Orchestra had made. Then, a couple months ago, I had the opportunity to see it first-hand during an impromptu cello section social. Then, I let the footage remain in my FlipCam untouched because I was too lazy/swamped with work to do anything with it. 

BUT NO LONGER! Ladies and gentlemen, you are about to witness the Blogs' Goofiest Video Ever:

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Apr 8 2012

In which Elizabeth tries something new.

Posted in: Miscellaneous, Life & Culture

The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost three years, I learned that MIT has a climbing wall. Now, in any other circumstance, this would have been a mere blip on my daily radar of Shiny-Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing this thing existed (I live under a rock, apparently... so much so that I don't know about the giant rocks on campus...), but he even had to go as far to suggest that I might try going there sometime (the horror!), leading to a momentary, but non-negligable, conversation on how I should try rock climbing. Now, before you think, "Elizabeth, that seems like a perfectly reasonable direction for that conversation to take," I just want say:

Homies. Have. You. Seen. My. Arms. 

This was my response to the conversation: 

(Minus the fact that I DO NOT HAVE STEVE AUSTIN'S ARMS/UPPER BODY STRENGTH!) I also don't have the greatest track record with climbing things. Over the summer,... read the post »

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Apr 2 2012

It’s like I go to class or something.

Posted in: Academics & Research, Majors & Minors

Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to important stuff.

Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation arising tomorrow. "Hi, it's nice to meet you - the gravitational force between you and me is about 10^-7 newtons. Let's be friends!"

Okay, no really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me.

Yup. Takin' notes, learnin' things! 

Okay. I'm just kidding. I'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields, and Flows in Biological Systems. Mainly I am learning that I am not so good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a cool class in that I'm just like "equations, equations, modeling (on the computer, not on the runway...), equations, whoa science is actually kind of weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of... read the post »

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Mar 14 2012

Important

Posted in: Best of the Blogs, Miscellaneous, Freshman Applicants

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Feb 27 2012

Dinner With Goobers

Posted in: Miscellaneous

Growing up, the thing that my parents were the most strict about wasn't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn't even allowed to read, which is lame because my little brother is allowed to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner. But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule against books at the dinner table is the fact that I was so stinkin' nerdtastic that I wanted to read at the dinner table...

I DIGRESS.

The point is, as many days as I begrudgingly dragged myself to the dinner table like a snotty teenager, not having family dinner time was one of the things that made the transition to college the hardest for me (I know. I am a GIANT BABY.). Lucky for me, I have a different sort of family with my fellow Simmons sponge-dwellers, and when the clock strikes a nice and early 5:30 PM (because we actually have the lifestyle habits of... read the post »

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