THAT’S RIGHT! by Laura N. '09

Well my fellow 09er’s, as most of you already know, AP scores are in the mail. After an awesome day at work (the exclusive camp we were going to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do…haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway.

My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, “Oh well I’m just excited to see how I did on these tests, even though I know I didn’t get- OH MY [edited for content].” Yours truly somehow managed to receive:

Physics C- Mech: 5
Physics C- E/M: 5

I…am at a loss for words. I have absolutely NO IDEA how this happened. I think somebody made a mistake. *grin* I started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of clueless about college, so he was like “Well I don’t get it, but I’m glad you’re happy.” Haha.

That totally made my day. *contented sigh*

So, catching up on some old things….

About the banner issue. MIT people are so cool. Many thanks to Anthony, Mitra, and Mollie for their helpful comments. (I was kind of hoping that would happen, and it did. Props to them.) Their advice was right on. My banner is now successfully hosted in my own little corner of MIT server space (yay!) and I have managed to piece together a tiny bit of information about using computer services at MIT.

Now, if you go to this link: http://web.mit.edu/software/win.html, there are various programs you can download for Windows. (There are tabs at the top of the page for other operating systems.) Now, if you download Filezilla, you need to get some Kerberos tickets. (Kerberos is a security protocol that allows the user to transmit data securely.) To do this, you’ll need to download Kerberos for Win 2.6.5 (R2), which includes a program called Leash. You can use Leash to login with your Athena username and password to obtain the proper tickets from Kerberos that allow you to prove your identity to the MIT computers.

For whatever reason, SecureFX is a lot simpler to run. As soon as you download the program, it’s ready to run for you because the configurations are already set to allow you to connect to MIT; you only need a username and password. This is a much easier way to get started, although I imagine that you’ll be needing some of the programs included in the “Kerberos for Windows” package for other things at a later time. On the other hand, I could be totally making that up, so don’t listen to me.

Once you open up either of these programs, they use a pretty user-friendly interface that allow you to transfer files back and forth. There are obviously set up a little differently from each other, but I haven’t used them extensively enough to report on that. Besides, it’s just a personal preference at that point. I’m also told that you can set up new directories and set permissions for them, but let’s not get too crazy just yet. That’s another topic for another day.

In other news, amino21 left me a great comment saying that he/she would be posting part of my first entry on his/her own blog…of course I don’t mind, I think that’s awesome! But it’d be great if you could link to your blog, I’d love to see it! =)

Well that’s about it for now. Coming soon: rambling about FEE results, my continued confusion about FEE results, the HASS-D lottery, my confusion about how I might have screwed up the HASS-D lottery, adventures with medical forms, anger at athletic forms (the first one is 10 pages! Just the first one!), and my other misadventures….