So last night I was heading up to bed at a later hour than intended...I had gotten sort of carried away showing off the music I like to some buds. And I stopped at one bud's room so I could take his longboard on a lap of Sontag courtyard to see if I liked it (it is either the model I'm looking at or a very similar one) and...I put my laptop down outside and forgot about it. And this morning, when I realized my error, I walked down the stairs and there it was.
I have regained a tiny bit of confidence about the lack of theft on campus. However, I don't think I'm going to space out and leave my laptop out again. That was dumb.
Let's see...shenanigans de la semaine. July 4th was fun, as was the 5th...yay days off. And this week has been nice and chill at work, though last night I did a "woo! panic!" thing about our web server failing at updating the nsscache; fortunately, we have a genius staff member who advised me on how to fix it, and then all was well! Take that, terrifying and unintelligeable error messages!
So life is pretty good. I'm feeling moderately chipper, enough to do silly things like walk to the practice rooms with a snake wound around my neck and to practice all half a dozen songs I've gotten written this summer. I need to run them again tonight so they're smooth. Should print out lyrics, too. That would help on the music drilling.
Laaaaaaaaaaa.
Lizard!
1 year ago
I LOVE the name of your blog!
ReplyDeleteI had the same issue here. Bloody Harvard Med.
I'll probably see this August. I'm in the class of 2014!
*see you
ReplyDeleteOHMYGOODNESS someone reads this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment, Mitul! Yeah, someday maybe we'll get equivalent name recognition...progress has been made, but it still happens.
GO CLASS OF 2014! You better come track me down in East at the start of the school year.
Haha I shall. When do you arrive on campus? I'm coming on the 8th for SI!!
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty awesome...have fun at SI. I'm not an SI person, nor am I a sponsor, so I arrive with all the other non-froshlings on the weekend of August 28th. East is small, so I shouldn't be hard to find, but I'm SW corner 2nd floor.
ReplyDeletehey. . I'm going to apply to Mudd this fall and followed a link from the college's website to your blog. I read through some of your posts and had a couple questions.
ReplyDeleteI'm worried about going to a school with a lot more guys than girls. Did guys ever make sexist jokes at you or just not talk to you?
I sleep about six and a half hours a night at my high school, but from what I've read on the web you can only get around five hours and still keep your grades up and have a social life while at Mudd. Do you know anyone who slept seven hours a night? Did you or your friends have to pull all nighters regularly? I don't want to be too tired to learn : )
Hey Gianna! I'd be happy to take care of your questions.
ReplyDelete1. As far as sexism goes at Mudd, there's nothing I've ever had to worry about, which was a lot better than I expected getting here myself (assuming the ratio would just produce such behavior). Academically, boys and girls don't get treated differently, nor do they treat each other differently; it's not assumed that the boys will know better. The only weird thing on that is that for computer science in general, it is far more probable that a guy will have taken a class in it before college than a girl, but the assumption is never made that the guys will know better (the top of my last CS class was composed more of girls than guys).
In a social context, it's a little strange now and again, as it is with any tech school, because you have a lot of boys at the school who are disadvantaged in the dating world both by being from a slightly nerdier demographic in high school and by having the ratio against them. This can produce some moments of boys being dumb in what they say, but they get made fun of for it...it's not socially acceptable to objectify the women here, and I don't think I've ever seen it happen.
2. I'm sorry that the web has misled you on this...they like to scare people, these Mudd students. I know people who require ten hours a night and pulled it off without too much hassle. It's all about making it work around what you need. I don't need that much sleep, and I like taking my sweet time doing homework while chilling with friends...so I sleep less. And that's fine. Depending on your standards of "social life"...the spectrum ranges from playing about an hour of video games with people now and again to partying it up with buds every night...it can cut into your sleep schedule. But at some level, sleep deprivation is voluntary, and it is totally possible to finish your homework by 9 PM, spend some time with friends, and go to sleep if you're that sort of person. I'm just not, and neither are a lot of the people there, so there's a tendency for the people who prefer to work in the middle of the night to assume that it's what everyone does.
All-nighters-wise: you never have to pull an all-nighter at Mudd. Really. I've asked seniors about this, and the reason people pull all-nighters is always because they put off a large assignment to a ridiculous extent. I've pulled one all-nighter because for a good week my CS partner and I would meet up to program and then decide to watch TV or talk for hours about nothing in particular or to work on other things. But no one ever *needs* to do an all-nighter...if you start assignments at a day and time appropriate to the size of the assignment, all will work out.
I hope this helps. If you want more detail (stories, etc) about either of these topics you can email me at xanda_schofield@hmc.edu and I can tell ya all about my personal experience and the things I've heard and seen from upperclassmen.