September 2005 - Posts
ok, September's almost over and the weather over here is getting cold
anyway... i'm getting used. i ahd my first exam (18.01) which i failed (well, not actually failed, but 74 is a fail for me) and... i'm missing home...
i just bought my first thing with "MIT" on it... a hood :) it's really cold outdoors, and for some reason i wore just a t-shirt... the air froze my arms and i decided to get a hood
harry potter... NOVEMBER, did u watch the trailer? it's nice and it's pg-13 (:/)
just wanted it to be 5 in september :)
I'm not showing off but... this blog is actually about me:
Today's TechTalk (pdf here):
My Capital (Bishkek):
Hello People :D
Life at MIT is going on and I just thought that I should write an entry :) (even though I have incomplete chem and calculus psets)
ok, so what I am planning to write about now is a certain group of people here at MIT. Sometimes it is pretty weird to see a couple of asian and turkish-looking guys talking among themselves in some language, that doesn't sound like English or Mandarine Chinese. We talk in Russian :). We are the people from post-Soviet countries. So-called, Commonwealth of Independent States. And we have started a new group in the Facebook, called F-USSR (Former Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics).
Here I just wanted to talk about some members of this group:
First of all...
me and my roommate - Nurzhas. He's from Kazakhstan, participant of IMO and ISEF
Agshin - From Azerbaican. He has studied 2 years at Marmara University in Turkey, IPhO Medallist
Vova - from Ukraine, IBO participant, biochem monster
Mekan - from Turkmenistan, IChO participant, I met him in Germany (36th IChO)
There's also Andrei from Moldova, but I couldn't find his picture (btw, all the rights on these pix belong to people that are actually on pics), he's a hardcore mathematician.
and we have also some upperclassmen (Tural, Kuat, Igor, Alibek = all of them are very cool guys) and some new members whom i don't really know but I want to.
ok, so, if u feel like u can be a part of our group, u're welcome to join.
===EDIT===
U won't believe it but i'm right now sitting and sort of working on my first all-nighter at MIT :). it's 4.15 am and the case is that I started solving my calculus pset at 10 pm... i didn't think that it would take so much time, but happily, I'm done, and I hope I did a good job. there's a chemistry pset, which I still have to finish but that won't take more than an hour (i hope)
and don't forget! Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire official movie trailer is right now showing and it's AWEsome :)
Orientation is over and all that “activity” could be described as one big party. Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures during it.
OK, Today is my first day of classes and classes have finiched now :) so, I decided that it would be cool to describe my first study day at MIT with illustrations. Now, seat comfortably and start reading
First of all, I woke up :D, and got prepared. Then I looked at my schedule:
What do we have today? 8.01 (physics), 5.112 (chemistry) and 18.01 (calculus). All Right, I'm ready to go!
I got out of Simmons and and started walking... vassar street...
(one of the) football fields...
Z-center
Kresge Oval ...
and Stratton Student Center ...
... where I was going to have a breakfast (there're not many people, because it's a bit early)...
and to log in to Athena. (that's not me there)...
ok, now, I'm ready for classes... I headed to 77 Massachusetts Avenue...
the Building 7 is an an entrance to...
...infinite corridor that connect all the academic buildings at MIT...
my first class was in 26-152 (studio classroom?)
...is it really for physics?
yes, it is! this year 8.01 physics is completely different from what was in all previous years. it is computerized, we were divided into groups of 3, to work together, we had a computer and we had to conduct an experiment ourselves :)
2 hours later... again infinite, now it's full of students...
I met my friend Kuat and since I had an hour break we had a lunch together.
while walking to the food court we saw the...
after that I had my 5.112 (chemistry) lecture, which was a pretty classical introduction to the course, I don't know why i didn't take the pictures :/
then there was a calculus recitation (Kiersten and I have the same recitation times)...
after which Kiersten remembered that we actually had our advising seminar at 3.
I'm in Chemistry and Arts and today we were observing photography :) here we are, on the Killian getting prepared to take some cool pics. The woman in a blue t-shirt is my advisor (Dr. Janet Schrenk) and the girl in green one is Kiersten
we used a 30 year-old Pollaroid camera and here's the pic that I took...
after that we went to the lab to wash our negatives, because we will work on them next week...
then I came to dorm and played some pool (i don't know how to spell it) with Nurzhas (my roommate) and now I'm planning to go to the Olympic pool to swim :)
ok, so Labor day is about to end and tomorrow is the first of classes. well, actually, it's gonna be a registration day but anyway the fall term officially starts. I got a swim test tomorrow morning too, and i tried to swim 100 meters today... not as bad as i have expected :)
sorry for not posting throughout the normal orientation and not giving u much of MIT views... i'm just too lazy, let me get used to this place very well :) I have met almost all members of the blogging community (from Matt to Elina) and I'll try to meet each one of them once more to have a pic to post here
I have also met some other cool fella froshes and my room is really cool. 7-5941 - for in campus calls. I just wanted to wish Good Luck to all people, whose term is beginning (or already has began). Good Luck folks!!! It was a great summer!