I am no longer trying to be witty
I now realise that a few people read this to see what I'm doing/whether I'm still alive, so for the next while it will be full of common or garden "these are some things wot I done" format.

Classes have not started yet. This does not mean everything is not still hectic...

I spent my first week working for the Ocean Engineering department, running their orientation program to recruit new freshman (as I was recruited many months ago). We took them to various places like the New England aquarium and a recreation 18thC shipping port in Conneticut where we met various professional tall-ship sailors. One of them was telling me how a few research vessels still ran off New England and could need oceanographers, leaving me fantasising about my future career...

The freshman had to build robots, but being intelligent MIT types, they were very capable of doing it on their own. This left us, the mentors, free to create our own masterpiece: a floating armchair with propellers underneath, wired up to a control box so we could drive ourself around the MIT swimming pool in it :). I will have pictures.

After that week finished it was dorm rush, where we try to get all the freshmen to live in our dorms. Right now it's fraternity/ILG rush week, where strange student cults named after greek letters indocrinate young freshmen "pledges" and hit them with paddles by way of team-building exercises. At the edges of this there are the six MIT-affiliated independing living groups, who are not crazy 'brotherhoods', just places where people live. Our job is to band together to save the freshmen from the frats and let them live with us instead. It's a difficult task.

Also, I somehow ended up working light board for a production of 'Into the Woods'. It was a favour for the producer, who is a good friend of mine, but it's fun anyhow as it's a really good show. The set is gorgeous. The light cues are also really bleedin complicated.

Oh, and I got a job as a tutor! W00t! This means I'm dropping one class, Special Relativity, but I figured that getting paid to review Linear Differential Equations (which I really need to know...) is better than snowing myself under with a subject I don't actually need to do to graduate. And I'll still be taking 3 technical + 1 humanities classes, which is the recommended maximum unless one is a Genius Prodigy or Crazy.

What else? I'm joint Technical Director and joint Set Designer for a production of Midsummer Night's Dream. It should be really really fun - the director is awesome and his idea for the set is exactly the same as ours. Also, the rest of the prod staff are all my close friends (Anna is Lighting Designer, Kel is producer, Brianna is my other half in both jobs). So yay. Fun all round.

I must stop now, as the other 0.5TD is coming to discuss our pretty pretty set.

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