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Thoughts
Freshman orientation starts tomorrow, which mostly reminds me how close I am to graduating. Technically I'm on vacation, but I can't help but feel that I should be doing something. Anything. Studying for the GRE, starting grad school apps (or at least scoping out programs more), AHS capstone prep work, getting together a parts order for SCoPE (like ( Read more... ) -
Political Correctness Fail
My family went out to an ice cream place last night, and while we were in line the young woman who came to help our group assigned my father to the group of asian women in front of us. She was pretty embarrassed when she figured it out (I was laughing my head off)... -
On speedreading
I just found this linked on Reddit, which made me think about speedreading. I checked out the whole article, read it significantly faster than my normal speed (while comprehending it) by applying the techniques listed in the article and came to this conclusion: I can read much faster than I do, and it bothers the hell out of me ( Read more... ) -
I leveled up
And got a rather fantastic set of Pokemon references in the midst of my "happy birthday I don't normally associate with you at all" Facebook posts. The best part, of course, was seeing how many people used my legal name [which I'm FB registered under] instead of, like, my name name ( Read more... ) -
Field testing!
I like field testing! I basically got to spend 5 1/2 hours on lake chilling out and driving the support canoe [it has a trolling motor on it, which is awesome]. Then Brad and I went on a Best Buy adventure and headed to JeffPamSarahBrad's house for Jeff and Pam's surprise birthday party - we wrapped Jeff's present in an obnoxiously pink Tinkerbell ( Read more... ) -
I'm awesome
Why am I so ridiculously self-confident? It's not like I'm never insecure or don't feel that I could improve X facet of myself, but, yeah. When I say totally arrogant things like "I'm fucking awesome", I mean it.
Why aren't more people like this? I know a lot of totally badass people who would rather die than say so out loud and believe it. -
A bajillion years later, I still like my job
I make a lot of cables - we redid all of the wiring for Medea [our robotic boat, for those not in the know], so I got to redesign the entire electronics enclosure and do the new wiring. Finally finished the whole rig and tested it out today - it worked, and I felt super accomplished for not fucking it up. I suppose next I get to do the electronics ( Read more... ) -
Awesome people are SO AWESOME
I had the most fabulous dinner. I'm Facebook friends with one of the now-ex members of Wellesley's General Judiciary [now the Honor Code Council or something similar that boils down to HCC], and she invited me [and then Alyssa and Jeff] to come have dinner at the place she's house-sitting in Wellesley. First off, she's ridiculously cool - she's a ( Read more... ) -
Working in the Robolab, Day 2
I know why Olin has no trees. It's because the Robolab cut them all down. [otherwise known as "We spent 2 1/2 hours chopping away brush in Parcel B to clear the test track so that our Rhino won't run into any tree bits and bust up some $10,000 sensor ( Read more... ) -
Working in the Robolab, Day 1
9:00am
Arrive in Robotics lab. Joe brought coffee, Andy brought assorted cookies and brownies, and Dave brought a $30,000 GPS unit [Dave wins]. Furniture is moved, many times, before we settle on a T-shaped desk configuration [4 of us will sit there, and 2 will be in the corner].
10:00amDave takes Joe and Andy to do something with the Rhino [the ( Read more... )