Monthly Archives: December 2005

Of all my classes, 6.003 is the one in which I was most worried about my grade. I had done well on the tests, but I hadn’t been doing the homework, and the final was extremely difficult. Actually, the difficulty … Continue reading →

Irony I have to guess that this is all some kind of subtle pun, an inside joke based on a mispronunciation.

I applied to some grad school today. I say some because I only submitted the ones that were due today, which is three, or about half of what I expect to submit in total. That sounds like a low number … Continue reading →

So the secret is, my Gizmoball team (for 6.170) won the Best Gizmoball Design award. There are two other awards, but given that it’s a software design class, I think we have a reasonable claim that this award is the … Continue reading →

I have a happy secret. It will be announced tomorrow. I also have 48 hours to finish grad school apps. Ack.

I have been working busily on a project for class. It was just finished and presented today, and I think it went very well. You might be able to run it from this link: gizmoball.

I’ve been trying to come up with a way to describe what happened to me over the past day in a way that will make sense, but I don’t think it is possible. The closest I can come is to … Continue reading →

The world is covered in snow. And not not just small amounts of snow: at least an inch everywhere. I think it did not sink in until just now that it is, in fact, December.

Last night was the grand opening of Building 46, which is apparently called The Picower Center for Learning and Memory. Everyone just calls it “the new course 9 building”, which shows once again the triumph of numbers over words at … Continue reading →