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Nov. 26th, 2005 01:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
godreamTalking to an old friend of my dad's/family friend yesterday, who went to MIT for grad school way back in the day (the early 70s).
So what are you taking this semester?
I list my four classes, with brief on-the-spot summary blurbs.
That's it?
(... well, yeah, and it's kicking my ass thank you very much.) Yeah --
Disappointed: You should be taking advantage of it more.
What do you say to that? I say 6.170's a lot of work, he's not buying it, whatever... I guess if nothing else this is evidence that the school isn't less hardcore than it used to be like everyone keeps saying, maybe?
Anyways. Being home is wonderful and relaxing and my little half-brother is adorable and brilliant and boy do I miss him. My other brother, age 17, and I get along much much better now that we don't live together anymore, which I'm not sure if I should be sad or glad about. I think he's also getting perilously close to six feet tall, I have to look up to talk to him, which is definitely not fair at all. And I haven't gotten any tooling at all done yet which is a very very bad thing.
The borrowed computer I am using doesn't have admin privileges on this account, though, so I couldn't really tool on 6.170 even if I wanted to. (Which I sorta do.) It also closes browser windows entirely of its own accord (my theory is something weird having to do with the touchpad) at random intervals which lends an interesting sort of finiteness to websurfing. I'm the type to leave twelve tabs open at all times with things I intend to look at more closely or send to people and it's actually probably upping my productivity not to be able to do that. But also messing with my mind.
So what are you taking this semester?
I list my four classes, with brief on-the-spot summary blurbs.
That's it?
(... well, yeah, and it's kicking my ass thank you very much.) Yeah --
Disappointed: You should be taking advantage of it more.
What do you say to that? I say 6.170's a lot of work, he's not buying it, whatever... I guess if nothing else this is evidence that the school isn't less hardcore than it used to be like everyone keeps saying, maybe?
Anyways. Being home is wonderful and relaxing and my little half-brother is adorable and brilliant and boy do I miss him. My other brother, age 17, and I get along much much better now that we don't live together anymore, which I'm not sure if I should be sad or glad about. I think he's also getting perilously close to six feet tall, I have to look up to talk to him, which is definitely not fair at all. And I haven't gotten any tooling at all done yet which is a very very bad thing.
The borrowed computer I am using doesn't have admin privileges on this account, though, so I couldn't really tool on 6.170 even if I wanted to. (Which I sorta do.) It also closes browser windows entirely of its own accord (my theory is something weird having to do with the touchpad) at random intervals which lends an interesting sort of finiteness to websurfing. I'm the type to leave twelve tabs open at all times with things I intend to look at more closely or send to people and it's actually probably upping my productivity not to be able to do that. But also messing with my mind.
