Forget that by Laura N. '09
Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"
On Tuesday night, Diana ’08 baked a cake. Since she borrowed a bunch of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save me a piece.
Now, whenever you print something to one of the campus printers (unless you take the action to turn it off), the printer automatically prints what’s called a “header page” before all of your stuff. This page has your MIT username in the top corner, so you can quickly and easily find your printouts in the massive pile of stuff that has been strewn around the printer over the past few days. To make them less wasteful, the header pages always have something useful on them, like graph paper or musical staffs, so that you can actually use them for something, instead of just killing trees. They’re also useful for clothing, as Ruth demonstrated at the Anything But Clothes Party 2 years ago.
Anyway, I had used a header page for scap paper and thrown it into the recycling bin earlier that day, so Diana decided to recycle it again to save my piece of cake for me. People sometimes go by their username as a nickname, and since another Laura moved onto the floor over a year ago, I’ve been trying to get everyone to call me by my username (with very limited success) ever since. I found the slice of cake in the kitchen the next morning, and decided to eat it for part of my lunch right before heading off to my 2.008 exam, which was at 12:30.
(text: “For maximum effect, consume after an exam.”)
Well, Diana is an excellent cook, she probably knows best.
So I went and took the 2.008 exam, which SUCKED and was way harder than it ever needed to be, and I certainly didn’t have time to finish. (Although it didn’t seem like anyone else did either, so I guess that’s not so bad.) Then I went to music class and had another test, which was just in major scales but still hard because I suck at music. Also, music is dumb. Intervals are just stupid. I don’t understand them, so they should go away. After that I had another organizational meeting for MassCPR, this huge event that is ruining my life by not planning itself.
So, when I finally returned to the dorm, I walked into my room to find a slice of chocolate cake that literally had my name on it. I poured myself a glass of milk, and enjoyed Diana’s delicious baking. Thanks Diana!
Okay, so an update.
Remember my to-do list from a week ago?
Forget this place, I’m going to Paris. Oh, and Rome. HA!
Always a treat to read your blogs. Have fun
that is crazy!
Chocolate Cake? Coz that’ll lift up any day! First time reading one of your blogs, but I say drop everything and enjoy Rome! :D
I’m with Laura on this one..
if we recall our blog anecdotes properly, we’ll recall that a certain M. McGann once was known as “madmatt[at]mit[dot]edu” … he now mascquerades as though he were mcgann[at]mit[dot]edu
also .. dguy, guyd, donaldg .. these all seem rather boring .. they aren’t lively .. like snively
~Donald
Keeping in mind the fact that people are occasionally called by their Athena names (especially in EC/Random, or so I get the sense)… I’ve been trying to figure one out.
A couple options for comment from the public:
1) Phoenix, cause its awesome and I’ve been using it as a s/n for a long time (and admittedly have been called it in person by a couple people). Although, if this is what Ashdown house is going to be renamed or something (basing this on the event on Friday of the CPW schedule), this might be a bad idea
2) Squeegee, because Rachel F ’12 has started calling me it because she could. It also rhymes with my initials, D(B)G
Also.. NO ONE STEAL MY IDEAS!
~Donald
Classic.
By the way, pre-frosh! You should know that cover pages are useful for separating the stuff you print from the stuff everyone else is printing, particularly if you’re using a very busy printer. But if you want to save paper, no one else is using the printer, and/or you want to be mildly more hardcore than the typical Athena user – you actually can stop Athena from printing your cover pages.
Does that look hard? Yeah, I once thought it did too. It’s really not. You’ll get the hang of it soon enough.
A scenario for you donaldGuy:
“Hi, thank you for inviting me to interview for your firm.”
“Thank you for coming. I’m sorry, I seem to have lost your e-mail address, can you remind me.”
“Sure, it’s [email protected]“
“Oh.”
Try to use something actually related to your name. This is your e-mail address for all four years, you don’t get to change it.
@ Snively: That’s a good point, but if you’re 1337 enough you can alias it to another, more respectable address…
I’m not leet.
:(
Great list (and big!). I should do the same to remember stuff. But I’d probably forget the list.lol
Enjoy Rome.
Mailing lists are everybody’s friend. Just make one that sounds “respectable,” make sure you’re the only one on it, and use that for your resume. But I have to agree that squeegee is probably not the best idea for an Athena name. Phoenix is pretty awesome though.
While most user names are somewhat related to their user’s actual name (first name + middle initial + last initial, first initial + last name, first name + last initial, first name + last name, all three or four initials together, just last name, etc.), not all of them are. One of my friends’ Athena names is clyde; her real name is Grace. If there’s a reason for that, she hasn’t told me the story yet.
Other strange but interesting Athena names I can think of include wings, alcor, and (perhaps my favorite) pyrocide.
On that note, I kind of wish my Athena name were more interesting (some of you probably know what it is already, it’s not that hard to find anyway); but as Laura said, you can’t change it once you pick it. Oh well, at least it doesn’t confuse anyone.
Intervals do kinda suck. My music instructor expects us to recognize 8 different intervals by sound after only practicing them for a week. :/ Sometimes even music classes at MIT are demanding.
I like how “Hatred for the UA” made it to the top of your to-do list. Everyone seems to have time for that around here. Have fun in Europe and tell Adelaide/Mason/Rick I said hi!
Most bloggers use lists instead of their actual e-mail addresses, that way we can set up filters for e-mails from admissions.
madmatt is probably a list (but it may be that nifty alias thing Laura mentioned.
Dude, squeegee? No.
Paris AND Rome *turns green*
No, seriously , have fun!
squeegee =)
I rather like the sound of that!
DonaldGuy – Haha. I think Rachel F ’12 has nicknames for all of us now. She calls me “moar” apparently because she has trouble typing my name correctly hehe :-p
Squeegee ?
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I dare you to do it ^^’
I’m not a big fan of Squeegee really .. its Rachel’s name for me … though its growing on me a little ..
still .. I like phoenix .. and I could go back to donaldg .. or whatever
and Snively, when Matt was a student his email was definitely madmatt.. search “madmatt” on the blog archives
~Donald
Funny list…I used to put my to-do list on a paper also, but it never works out..nothing can be done at the end
Your list of to do items is crazy. I don’t think I have ever seen anything like it.
Super hot. Glad to still be crufting up the tubes. Come eat cookies at my house and tell me about Europe.