Who: Chris M and Snively
What: A picture
Where: My room
When: Last year at the end of CPW
Why: We needed a picture together
How: How did we end up looking like this? 4 hours of sleep-ish each over about 4 days.
This kind of has me wondering what’s the longest period of time a MIT student has remained awake while at MIT. 4 hours of sleep over 4 days…I’m sure someone has done much better.
Ehsan: Simple, you build a catapult to launch the camera the same way every time. Then you work out the center of mass of the camera, figure out how it rotates in mid-air, calculate the velocity needed for the launch, and perform the launch to get the perfect picture with a high shutter rate.
Or, of course, you could just use a tripod or have somebody else take the picture, such as a person from a nearby room.
This is, quite possibly, one of the worst pictures of either Chris M or myself ever taken. This is because we’d been awake for a ridiculous amount of time during MIT’s CPW weekend. It just goes to show what a weekend at MIT can do to you.
of course at the same time I wonder what you must think of other photos of me if that one doesn’t look too bad. When I look at that I can’t help but laugh because of the look of sheer exhaustion on both of our faces, but maybe I can only tell because I remember how much we did and how little we slept.
Colton — I can’t claim any record, but 3 consecutive all-nighters before sophomore year Thanksgiving. That was the sweetest train ride home of all time.
I’ve seen worse. I had a friend with bulging red eyes after studying for several hours straight in his room when the heater broke. We took a video of him mumbling something about dying if he slept in his room if it was that cold. You guys look pretty OK there, just a bit spaced out
Hey I remember this picture from Chris M’s guest blog after CPW! It’s cool to see that he’s an official MIT Blogger now.
Lol wow, I can’t believe that was only like 7 months ago!
@ Colton
But, Of course!
For all of you that are not famaliar with The Big Bang theory this is Sheldon Cooper!
Sheldon Cooper = Michael Snively!
Snively has eye bags, Chris M doesn’t. Why?
This kind of has me wondering what’s the longest period of time a MIT student has remained awake while at MIT. 4 hours of sleep over 4 days…I’m sure someone has done much better.
@Curious
Cuz I slept less! Seriously, I was SO DEAD at the end of that weekend.
Who took the picture then?
Ehsan: Simple, you build a catapult to launch the camera the same way every time. Then you work out the center of mass of the camera, figure out how it rotates in mid-air, calculate the velocity needed for the launch, and perform the launch to get the perfect picture with a high shutter rate.
Or, of course, you could just use a tripod or have somebody else take the picture, such as a person from a nearby room.
This isn’t a computer science joke right? Im sure there is a huge story leading up to this point. The guy to the left doent look that bad.
Ok, maybe this needed more explanation.
This is, quite possibly, one of the worst pictures of either Chris M or myself ever taken. This is because we’d been awake for a ridiculous amount of time during MIT’s CPW weekend. It just goes to show what a weekend at MIT can do to you.
@RZF
Well thanks, I’m flattered =)
of course at the same time I wonder what you must think of other photos of me if that one doesn’t look too bad. When I look at that I can’t help but laugh because of the look of sheer exhaustion on both of our faces, but maybe I can only tell because I remember how much we did and how little we slept.
Oh my God, Snively, you can protest enough for this, but you look SO much like Sheldon o.0
Colton — I can’t claim any record, but 3 consecutive all-nighters before sophomore year Thanksgiving. That was the sweetest train ride home of all time.
I’ve seen worse. I had a friend with bulging red eyes after studying for several hours straight in his room when the heater broke. We took a video of him mumbling something about dying if he slept in his room if it was that cold. You guys look pretty OK there, just a bit spaced out
i don’t get it. how is this blog helpful for the frosh, except for that link to CPW?
*prefrosh
^haha, yeah same!! wow, time passes by so fast ;_;
4 hours in 4 days??? How did you function?
hm. you look like sheldon from the big bang theory! lol