Over Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend, I paid a visit to Boston for the annual MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle-solving event where hundreds of MIT students and other puzzle enthusiasts go head to head in a contest consisting of a hundred puzzles and lasting more than 48 hours non-stop. The puzzles take various forms; you might get something that looks ( Read more... )

Happy New Year!

And happy fourth anniversary to my LiveJournal.

Last night at 1:06:32 am, I returned to the house from eating a chili-cheeseburger at the Original Tommy's restaurant ( Read more... )

Arg! Why isn't anybody else awake?!

5 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
10 Mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
10 Kit Kat Bars
1 Halloween Kit Kat Bar, orange and in an orange wrapper
1 Vend Pack Wrigley's Spearmint Gum
2 Blow Pops - 1 What A Melon flavor and 1 Blue Razz Berry flavor
1 package of Whoppers, .75 oz
1 Oatmeal Raisin Cookie
1 Jack-o'-Lantern-shaped cookie

32 Total

I went to a sporting event at Caltech for the first time Friday. The women's volleyball team played against West Coast Baptist. There were a couple hundred fans in attendance, almost all students, and the crowd was pretty enthusiastic. The games were exciting to watch, too. We won in three games: 30-26, 35-33, 30-28 ( Read more... )

Caltech room doors are not locked with a key lock, but instead with a Simplex push-button lock. Above the doorknob, there are five buttons arranged in a pentagon.

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The Alkali Metals are Group 1 on the periodic table. They include ( Read more... )

Just as people from America are called Americans, and people from Madison are called Madisonians, and people from Canada are Canadians, there are also names for people in each of the houses ( Read more... )

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Blacker

I'm a Mole! I'm really happy! It already feels like home. I'd like to stay and write about the process through which Blacker told us we were accepted, and about how they then initiated and partied with us, but I have to go dry off.