Monthly Archives: June 2007

I just showed up to the Biophysics program’s annual clambake exactly one week late. I guess my organizational skills still need some work.

I am in the play, Cabaret. It’s definitely what you would call a minor role; I’m not even sure I have any lines. I will, however, be dancing like crazy. I will do far more dancing than I have ever … Continue reading →

Tonight was callbacks (i.e. second-round auditions) for Cabaret. I was auditioning for the part of Cliff, because that’s the only one that doesn’t require an accent, and I am no good at accents. There was singing and dancing and acting … Continue reading →

The only computer I own has a 12″ screen. I’m very happy with that, since I take it with me everywhere, but sometimes it’s nice to have a big screen. At work I have a 21-inch monitor, a CRT, which … Continue reading →

On a whim, I decided to audition for the MIT muscal theatre guild summer musical, Cabaret. It’s been a very, very long time since I auditioned for a play, and I have definitely forgotten much of the art. One key … Continue reading →

I’m finishing off one rotation and starting the next. I finally convinced myself that my pessimistic model of MRI-ultrasound interaction is in fact correct, and using MRI to measure ultrasound displacements is nearly impossible (at least, the way I was … Continue reading →

The Guy was very cool, and very helpful. Now I just have to get my equations to work.

Tomorrow afternoon I have a meeting with the Guy who is the world expert on the Thing that I’m trying to Do. It should be pretty cool, even though chances are he’ll tell me that it’s plumb impossible.

In my thermodynamics classes, I was taught that two independent systems, each equilibrated to its own temperature, will, when placed into contact, equilibrate to a single temperature. This makes the fact that my apartment is always 15 degrees warmer than … Continue reading →

I didn’t have much to do today, except read interesting sciency stuff. I went to the gym, for the second time in a year. My roommate Leah is in a no-intruments band that was performing in a concert tonight, so … Continue reading →