- Freshman Essay Evaluation: passed (yay!), leading to
- HASS-D Lottery: due very soon. I have yet to start picking classes.
- The Clapper: I have one. Hopefully I’ll write about it soon.
- The lightning radius of death entry: I just finished, after about two months in progress. Check it out.
- 18.03 Advanced Standing Exam psets: ~30 left to do. Waaaay too many.
- Laptop: ordered. Lenovo Thinkpad W500. I’ll probably write about it when I receive it, and I might even tell how I saved $200 by upgrading the processor (assuming nothing goes catastrophically wrong with my order).
- The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps: after missing their performance due to the weather at Naperville, I discovered they were rehearsing a little under an hour away at Grandville High School. I watched most of their rehearsal, but had to return home for fireworks (July Third fireworks, no less) before the big brass piece, but it was still enjoyable.
During the middle of the song, I saw a rather punkish-looking young fellow with a raised hoodie loitering around in the pit. He was drinking from a green beer bottle, so I assumed he was a percussion technician, and an unusually chill one at that. As it were, this section of the percussion feature includes blown bottle noises, and there was no consumption of alcohol going on (to my knowledge). Some of the bottles were, however, tuned using a mystery liquid.