Mmmm, what a beautiful day! Sunny, 55 degrees out. You know what that means. Yeah, that's right. A couple of jocks in the building decided it would be a good idea to go outside into the C courtyard and play catch while listening to country music on their rather large stereo directly under my window ( Read more... )

I'm half disgusted by and half morbidly fascinated with the "culture of life." They just have this really messed up dessert-based system of justice. Their congressional minions are more than willing to completely dismantle basic judicial jurisdiction and completely violate the rights of the state of Florida in the name of defending a braindead ( Read more... )

I got a raft of papers from Apple via Fedex. It's horrible, there are like 20 things I have to fill out and most of them, as far as I can tell, are pretty much the same thing. Aie. I hope this is worth it ( Read more... )

Yeah, this sucks. I fell asleep at like 11 pm and woke up at 6:30 am feeling fully refreshed. I actually think I might just let this go for a while because I always have to get up early except on Thursdays now anyway. But I mean, not THIS early.

Despite making the shortlist for McDonald Observatory, they ended up not wanting me, although they communicated this in a weird way. I did, as expected, receive an offer from the Keck Consortium, but it was at Williams (although the project I got assigned to was very cool-looking, and the professor I'd be working with emailed me and said she knew ( Read more... )

I have returned and it is nice to be back. The trip through Europe was excellent and completely lived up to and exceeded my expectations. Unfortunately I don't think I'm really in much of a state to write about it now as by the timezone I woke up in this morning, it's currently 3 am and I got up at 7:30 am ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm leaving for Europe in like an hour. If I make that quintessential post while I'm there that goes something like, "GUYS I am in EUROPE and I'm posting on LiveJournal...... IN EUROPE," please kill me promptly upon my return. Thanks.

Dude, you guys, I made a great way to figure out where the party's at at Wesleyan. Check it out!

Party!

Yeah, so I made the short list of candidates for the McDonald Observatory REU program. I'm relatively surprised since it was kind of a last-minute whim thing and I assumed that they wanted people with experience. Anyway, I got a call from one of the guys at UT-Austin who's administrating it and we had a really bizarre and awkward conversation. For ( Read more... )

Butterfield B230.

I'm sorta bummed about it. On top of being waitlisted for HR (although Rich explained several legitimate reasons for this), I got put in the same area. Eric the AC must just really like me or something. I'm mostly resigned to the fact that most of my friends obviously won't be in the Butts next year, but if any of you current ( Read more... )