Sweet summertime, summertime

Well, the semester ended. I believe I passed all of my classes. And now comes the joyous time of Mudd summer, in which the thinned-out campus takes part in Summer Research and Summer Math, a special program designed to knock out a semester of math in 3 weeks. Many of my friends are in Summer Math. I am not seeing them often due to the strenuous workload of two half-semester classes crammed into a three-week period. Ah well.

Right now, I'm actually working on the CS Summer Staff. Thus far it's been pretty quiet...we've cleaned out some of the library, read a lot from the books we have teaching UNIX and Linux, and wandered around on terminal windows logging in and out of servers and poking around to see what was going on. It's been a little dull now and again, but once we've been educated enough to actually get some proper work done it should be awesome. Also, through the work of junking some of the old CS equipment, I found two wonderful things...one, a three-button Logitech MouseMan M-S38 from the '90s and a Wacom ZC-100-00 mouse that has no apparent means of connecting to the outside world even after having been pried open with a fork in the name of science (I'm not in possession of much in the way of tools, but I had to know). Carl (I named the MouseMan Carl) didn't watch the brutality.

Without the semester's work, life is quite quiet. I'm doing a lot of walking to and from food (quite a lot...I have no place to store food until they let me move into Sontag nor any method of preparing it, so I address food on a meal-to-meal basis minus a store of bananas, apples and mini-bagels in my room) and a lot of chilling in my room during non-work hours, sometimes reading from the manuals I have, sometimes doing next to nothing. It's creepy how quiet it is, though. When it switches from being mostly Summer Math on campus to mostly Summer Research, it might liven up a bit simply because Research people don't have to work off hours as much.

Anyhoo, needless to say, with all this empty time I should be able to update at least weekly this summer. That will probably end at the end of July when I no longer have Muddly things to say due to my return home. But for now, enjoy, ye few readers that I have. And comment away. I like comments.

OH OH OH AND UTTERLY RANDOM THING...if you have 3 hours to kill and a fondness for Shakespeare, this is for you.