Being an unabashed consumer (in the economic and biological senses), receiving new stuff makes for an exciting day – exciting enough to make me wonder if George Carlin had it right with the meaning of life (relatively clean for Carlin, and hilarious):
So, what am I excited about? First, I got my notebook for class this fall.
Ok, intentionally misleading. I received my notebook computer and a big stack of laboratory notebooks for taking notes this fall. The former is a Lenovo Thinkpad W500 (a complete tank), and the latter are the same indestructible notebooks I’ve been spilling foodstuffs on for months, abuse for which they look none the worse.
Both of these are quite exciting, but even better is what I found on the MIT Admissions Blogs, this year’s blogger application. I’ve mentioned my aspirations of bloggership before, and I’ll be writing various responses to questions from the application and posting them here over the course of the next two weeks.
Additionally, I’m going to try to dig out a few of the pieces sitting in my draft box and get them in publishable condition. The delay on a few of them (Apollo 11, for instance …) is quite shameful, but hopefully I’ll have more time for blogging, seeing as just yesterday I finally accepted that I’m not going to finish the psets for the 18.03 (differential equations) Advanced Standing Exam. I’ll be using my newfound time to work through my entry backlog.
Of course, merely talking about blogging makes for a rather vacuous entry, but seeing as it’s too late to fix that problem, I’ll just end with my two favorite internet discoveries from the last few weeks.
First, an incredibly beautiful and flat-out wrong mashup of Nirvana and Rick Astley:
And second, the best procrastination tool I’ve encountered recently, “Red Remover,” a somewhat physics-based block game with a wonderful amount of tricky problem solving. I’d rather not mention how far I’ve gotten…