IAP is going full blast. I'm taking the advanced beginner swimming class, looking for a UROP, working at my job and hanging around the campus. First day (Monday) I went to the video of a Richard Feynman's lecture on gravity, that was pretty cool. Rght after that there was a History of the Universe in one hour in the same auditorium (32-123). There's so much fun stuff going on that it's pretty common to be confused. Just like I was yesterday: I was sitting and having a dinner and a friend of mine comes and says that there's an incredible TV show premiere that night and there's an MIT alum and it was going to be shown in 10-250. We went there, and watched the primiere of the second seoson of the Beauty and the Geek. That was cool :)
ok, now... pics... Over break, I was just walking around and taking them.
Merry Chrismas Folks :). this is the entrance to building 7:
well, the same place, just thought that this is beautiful:
this thing is called 'yakor' in russian, and I have no idea what it is in English.
rather wet student center:
simmons hall
A tree:
me at the athena cluster, that is my scarf, if the question appeared in your head:
On the other day, closer to present time, Boston has been unually warm and sunny. Global warming? Anyway, there you go, a shot from Memorial drive
Boston downtown
and a shot in the evening
... that's it for now and I would like to congrat Jane for making it to the first page of the Tech
See you soon, folks
Hello Folks! How was the winter break? For me it was somewhat refreshing. I stayed on campus, ijn my room, kept ordering pizza and gaining pounds, anyway, I still look skinny. Did I tell you that I was dead, as you can see, I'm not... However, my blog was, for some time, but it's back. And it feels so good to be back. A lot of things have changed, a lot and probably I have changed myself, but I still like Linkin Park and Harry Potter. So, to start from the beginning, or from the end - the first term is over and the winter break is almost over as well. It was a great term, a lot of new friends. But I've lost the touch with people that I thought would become my friends. Jane W, for example. We just don't share a lot of classes, actually didn't share any, the life at MIT has seperated us. I have never met Katelyn, and I think that I have seen Stephanie once... that wasn't my best day. A lot of people are much different in the real life than in the net, and I'm not an exception. I have talked to Kevin only once or twice, even though he is the first person from MIT that I have ever met. Thank you very much, Kev, your help was extremely useful... a year ago :).
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, nice one. Probably the best potter-movie so far but for some reason it just felt like a lego house. The director took the story and tried to make a movie out of it, a very well illustrated one but it lacks something. It lacks something that makes The Prisoner of Azkaban my favorite.
A lot of new music has popped out from nowhere in such a short period of time that I feel like coming from Mars. Eminem, Madonna, Fort Minor and so and so, where are you guys hurrying? :/
About the classes, I took 4: 18.01, 8.01(TEAL), 5.112, 21F.222
18.01 - Calculus I, everyone who took will understand my feelings towards J Starr. The course was interesting with problem sets I really liked and the exams were every 2 weeks, what kept me studying. Everything was fun, except the lectures. I fell asleep at the first one, and kept sleeping untill I decided just not to go the lectures.
8.01 TEAL - Physics I - Felt like a great experience on the first days. However, after some time the screen on the walls started looking quite annoying, I hate PowerPoint and that's actually what we had to look at the whole term. Problem sets were extremely boring, without making any sense and that's why I was very dizzy at every quiz. None of our experiments worked the way it was supposed and PRS was just useless: “Hey, what do you think it is? C. Oh, ok C”.
5.112 - Chemistry - Hmmm... You know, Chemistry was the subject that I liked the most, before taking this awful class. The class that didn't make any tiny bit of sense, every proof just stopped in the place where it actually had to be very careful and definite. Didn't like the exams, problem sets, professors, lectures. Just hated this class. If you guys are thinking about taking this class, think twice. If I had a choice, I would definitely take 3.091
21F.222 - Has my writing changed? The class is named Expository Writing for Bilingual Students. I'm not bilingual, actual penta or hexalingual, but that doesn't mean anything, the class was just awesome. Loved every session, we were in groups of about 15, everybody knew each other and the class went pretty much like a group work, with everybody talking and giving some ideas. I didn't like writing before taking this class.
next post, picsy pics!