Am writing from a Biznes Tsentr (Business Center) computer that I'm renting for 500 rubles / hour, at our hotel in Prospekt Mira ( Read more... )

• I have left Dimagi, Inc. I've really enjoyed my time there. It was melancholy to give two weeks notice, but I feel good about the year I've been there. It seems nicely wrapped up and concluded, and now I can concentrate on my (awesome) UROP.* link: http://www.dimagi.com
  
• This weekend (later today ( Read more... )

Wild: I'm 20 now. I have been a student for two years, a citizen for six, and a resident of the States for eleven. My home country turns 230 years old, God bless it ( Read more... )

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afk --> StEeR RoAsT

My brother got into Boston University!

He was looking strongly at schools in Boston, and the closest one he had gotten into before we heard the news a few days ago was WPI. Financial Aid was decent, so I think it's essentially a done deal. I guess I'll see him in the area next fall...

The Duke of Albany does some strange things. If "King Lear" was a threeday, I hope I would have played him better than he is written:

• he announces his allegiance to the King openly in front of Goneril, giving her time to go to her boyfriend and ask him to kill Albany.
  
• he completely drops the ball and forgets about the captured Lear and Cordelia.
  
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(in echo of senor_don_gato)

"three tears

for all things wrong that feel so right
for all things right that just don't feel"

• 8.04: The intellectual heavyweight class, and the elephant in the room when it comes to having the potential to burn me out. I recognize Haus and 41w kids among the aisles, and already foresee pset parties in the psychedlic 4th west lounge and/or 462.
  
• 8.225: Write some essays, get CI-M credit. Although it's mildly embarassing to get CI-M credit ( Read more... )