Hmm.... Today was an attempt to catch on physics. Boy, did that not work. I don't understand anything at all. -_-; I need tutorring, but there isn't any until Tuesday, so boo-hoo for me.

Well, we had our first snow a few days ago - the 23rd, I think. Amy and David and all the people from the south were really excited, even though the snow was very light and was interspersed with rain. They'd better get used to snow... they'll probably be sick of it by February. :P Ach, I'll bet there is no such thing as a snow day at MIT seeing as the school building is practically across the street from me. ^_~

I tagged along with some fellow dormmates last night to frat parties - Theta Chi and Sigma Chi, right next door to each other. Talk about room for confusion there! Theta Chi was scary because it was some alumni reunion thing there, and everyone had beer, and I was scared. Needless to say, we didn't stay there for very long. Sigma Chi was scary too because there was LOTS of alcohol and people dressed in horrible, scary outfits. It makes me glad that people like to turn the lights off for parties - I'm sure that it's so you can't really get a good look at anyone else and you don't get as freaked out by how scary everyone is. *sighs* I don't understand parties. All you do is go dance, talk to people, and get drunk. I don't like to dance, I'm horrible at meeting people, and I most certainly don't drink. So there's nothing in it for me. Oh well, I can say I went and survived. And I got to play pool, which I guess is something, though I was quite horrible.... I need practice - badly. Nyah, so that was nice. Plus, the walk across the bridge was nice - it had stopped raining by then, and it wasn't too too cold yet. Someone has repainted the Smoot markers black and orange for Halloween. ^^ For those of you who don't know what Smoots are and what they have to do with the Harvard Bridge, here is the story:

Once upon a time, in 1959, there were some drunk fraternity guys. (Not too unusual around here, I'm sure). Now, they were MIT students, and geez, I don't remember the story at all so this is going to sound really horrible, but anyways, there was this young man named Oliver Smoot, who was a new pledge to their frat. These drunken students decided that it would be fun if they measured the length of the Harvard Bridge, using Smoot as their measuring stick. So they did. They laid him head to toe along the whole length of the bridge, and discovered that the bridge was exactly 364.4 Smoots plus one ear long. So now that frat goes out and repaints all the Smoot measurements on the bridge. ^^ So if you're ever walking across the Harvard Bridge, you'll know what all the numbers stand for. Leave it to MIT students. :P

Actually, my favorite part of the bridge is halfway across. Now, this really only works if you're actually headed toward MIT and not Boston, but someone painted 'Halfway to Hell' with an arrow pointing towards MIT. That just cracks me up. :P

- Flykyr Skysong

Current song: BB Mak - September
Current mood: Sleepy (and I even got extra sleep this weekend!)