Holy Relativistic Rhinoceri, Batman.

I've been having a lot of fun working on homework with other East freshmen. I mean, the homework in itself can be a bit fun in and of itself, what with the sun exploding on a regular basis and rhinoceri moving extremely fast, and a very interesting problem we found today regarding an astronaut going at 4/5 c and giving birth to a baby 3 years and 9 months later while in space. But the really nice thing about homework here is that it's almost never solitary. My roommate and I tend to leave our door open when we're doing homework, and in this way we've gotten pretty large groups of people working together until 2 in the morning on physics and helping each other.

Leaving a door open in general is a good idea. In this manner my roomie and I have gotten all sorts of cool invites to fun events (e.g. blues), homework help from upperclassmen, and a broken futon. See, an upperclassman stopped in front of our room when we were doing physics and asked, “Hey…do you guys want a couch? It looks like you have space for a couch.” Now, the statement that we had space for a couch was only technically correct, as the amount of space left for a couch is the space required to cross the room. But, being somewhat mentally unstable due to a massive amount of special relativity semi-literally warp-ing our brain, we agreed.

Thus, with some help from a few people nearby, we proceeded to move a rather old generally dusty and very broken futon into the center of our room. The futon cover itself was so disgusting that we elected to take the cushion out of the room for the time being – it presently sits just outside our front door. The frame, in the mean time, seemed disgusting on its own, but in our efforts to clean it, we discovered that we had nothing in particular with which we could clean a futon…excepting a very large supply of Purell that we obtained from freshman orientation. So, naturally, neither wanting to continue physics homework nor wanting our newly-acquired couch to infect our room, we Purelled the entire couch.

Since getting the futon, we've acquired sufficient fabric to cover it but have yet to actually sew the couch cover, so the fabric is just wrapped and pinned around it for now. We now can seat about 6 people in our room - 10 if some people don't need chairs. All because we leave our door open. Good times.