Monthly Archives: September 2006

What is retreat?

Thursday morning I woke up early and rushed through my morning routine, then walked to Harvard Square. I found a crowd of my fellow Biophysics students, and we boarded a coach bus to take us to our hotel in Maine. … Continue reading

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Banking

My paycheck cleared today, ans I inaugurated my new account by buying a bicycle helmet and lights, a cable for my new printer, and a cable for my phone. Tomorrow is the Biophysics retreat (costume required).

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Set Up

I think it is fair to say that my laptop is officially configured. I still don’t have power management totally working, and there’s still a problem when removing the laptop from the docking station, but it sounds like that should … Continue reading

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Arrived!

My laptop is here. Too bad I have to run to class.

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Done

My to-do list is getting doner and doner. I set up a bank account with Bank of America (account # is in the mail), I’m almost ready to finalize my classes (which is good, because tomorrow is the deadline), and … Continue reading

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Second Day

Today was the second day of classes, which should mean that I’ve now visited all the classes I’m going to take. That’s not to say that I know which ones they are. What I do know is that I’ve got … Continue reading

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New

Today was the first day of classes. It was very busy, despite only containing one real class (Molecular Biology). This evening was the gala dinner for first-year grad students in medical sciences, including PhD, MD, and DMD. Biophysics was there, … Continue reading

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Economy

I had been putting off calculating my car’s fuel economy, but after I arrived in Boston I filled up and reset my odometer. Today I filled up for the second time, 228.5 miles later. I bought 10.27 gallons of gasoline, … Continue reading

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Grr

Tomorrow is the first day of Harvard classes (ack!). I have decided to drop my MIT class in order to focus on topics I’m less familiar with. I am hoping to take a class on numerical algorithms for scientific computing, … Continue reading

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Getting closer

Yesterday was very productive. I visited every bank in Cambridge collecting information on account types and interest rates. Eventually, I made an account online at Bank of America (they paid me $50!). So that was one major item off my … Continue reading

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