ugh

It's sad that I end up writing when I'm deeply disgruntled and/or idle.
It never produces pleasant results. Ever.
Well anyway, I don't really know why I'm miffed. I've had a brilliant three weeks here in Germany and I have four more to go before I go home.

go see pictures
They are happier
Also I need to make a list of all the cities I've been to.
Well yes
About all for now
Terribly disappointing , ja?

I feel so terribly guilty about killing the blog.

Well anyway, I'm in Germany, in the beautiful little village of Arheilgen just outside Darmstadt.

The weather here is crazy and it rains and gets sunny again in seconds. It's actually quite entertaining.  

I taught a class of German 12th graders yesterday.Advanced Physics. Diffraction gratings and all that jazz. Can't say that's my favorite kind of Physics but its alright. Looks like I might get to teach some nuclear Physics next week at Salem College and that really is more exciting stuff. 

I've been around a bit. Frankfurt, Frankesh Crombach (I hope I'm spelling it right) and all over Darmstadt. Leave for Salem this weekend.

It's been a good one week and I have six more to go before I'm home again (it will have been a whole entire year by the time I go back).

I expect to see some changes but hopefully I won't be disillusioned with things and people won't be disillusioned with me.

No, I sound too cynical. I really am looking forward to going home.

More than words can say.

Read The Reluctant Fundamentalist.

Brilliant book.

All for now.

I might be off to Frankfurt again.

I miss MIT just a little bit but  I don't miss the sleep deprivation at all.

There's a cherry tree outside my window.

I have an 8.022 final tomorrow.

I should have been asleep an hour or two ago but I just can't sleep.

I want to sleep and I'm tired but I can't.

This is terrible.

Now I'm going to fail the one final that really matters.

:(

Three more days to three months of freeeedom 

Hello again

So apparently I'm not going to be a freshman next year and I think that's mildly depressing.

I'm not happy about this year being over because it flew by so much faster than I thought it could. I remember orientation like it was yesterday. I remember hauling my suitcases out of the taxi we took from the airport, hauling them up the steps to my new room. I remember unlocking my room and being extremely chuffed with the wall that was entirely windows and faced briggs field. I remember my first meal here (Annas. Burrito.ew.) and then going to see the dome soon after, dodging the sprinklers and hugging the pillars and then trying to go up to Barker which was obviously closed because it was 12am or something. I remember unpacking and making my bed with five pillows and falling asleep knowing that if MIT was this awesome then I would never not be happy. Oh, I was a naive little frosh. I'm not so naive anymore. I love MIT but I also know that its not going to always be easy here. Infact, it'll almost never be easy to get through any given week. There will be sleep deprivation and psets upon psets and crappy food but MIT is worth it.

I was so jaded in the winter. 

Now that its warm again, I'm happy and all is fine with the world.

Now all I have to do is write a philosophy paper, figure out how to reprocess fuel from a pebble bed reactor and make a presentation on stellarators. All by Thursday.

Goo luck, me.

The other day my post card from Taiwan finally came home. I'd sent it to myself from Holland and it was taken back to Taiwan and posted from there.

"Hang in there. It gets better

  ~Past Self", it said.

I tend to believe myself.

Go see new photoblog. www.aditive.tumblr.com

All pictures will go there.

I have a new camera.A Canon G 10. <3

www.aditive.tumblr.com/

:D

Its 2 am (well almost) and I should be asleep because I'm not working on that 18.03 pset.  I'm also supposed to be making goody bags for the prefrosh (mmmm candy. Maybe I'll just eat it all myself. Its probably all melted though. The temperature in my room is around 80. I exploit heating. I think I'm melting).

The produce market is amazing. I bought mandarins and pears and grapes and strawberries and beans and mushrooms and broccoli and thyme and cilantro and potatoes and then spent all day cooking. That was probably a bad idea because nothing got done. Now I feel absurdly unaccomplished and watching all the 5.12ers cramming for their midterm just makes me feel guilty. 

Oh well. There is sunshine and CPW is practically here and the prefrosh are cominggg :D

(I'm probably more excited about it than some of them)

*and* its going to be a four day weekend. Oh joy.

This is one of those times when I can't keep my eyes open properly but I can't sleep either. I kind of want to watch stargate (if I can find the episodes) all night but that might lead to very epic fail.

Sleep. That sounds like a plan.

Oh no. Must clean room.

ick

Oh well

Guess who is suicidal and has two UROPS :S