just as uncertain and now with an aching back

So I'm back. (Insert appluase) MIT has been quite an interesting experience and thensome. Actually I had been trying to think of a few good titles, of which I picked one at random at the last second to be the official one. Honorable mentions go to:

Everyone looks like Alice!
MITrapped?
The (way too) long way home, part deux
99 green balloons
Too mnay kooks spoil the broth

They all have their own special significance in my heart.

So, I'm sure you want all the juicy, crunchy, tangy and caramel centered datails. So here we go. It would make sense to start on:

THURSDAY

Logan airport reminds me of a hospital. Is that where they fimled Home Alone? You know, that McCulley Caulkin flick where he gets left home for Christmas before he gets molested by Michael Jackson or something. Anywho, is that the airport the family runs thorugh, cuz the ticket booths seemed reminiscent for some reason. It could've been O'hare, too, but Logan seemed right for some reason. Anywho I found the bus and off we went to campus. Everyone was bragging about what math class they were taking. I am proud to say that I'm the only pre-frosh I know of who's taking Stats senior year. Diff EQ, schmiff EQ; I could standard deviate your ass anyday.

So we arrived at MIT, and it looked pretty sweet. As soon as we checked in, we got assigned to out host dorms and locales. I was put in Burton-Conner, a 5 story buildings with 9 floors each with a different flavor. I was in Burton 3, AKA the BTB, AKA the BUrton Third Bombers. My host, Andrew, reminded me a lot of that kid from freshman year who always wore the bathrobe. What's his name? Steven something, no? Annie, do you know? Anyway he reminded me a lot of him. After I dropped my bags, he said to me in the most polite way possible,

"I have math hw due tomorrow, so leave for a while." (paraphrased)

With my trusty little guidebook of activities, I found my over to the Alumni Center where they were having the second annual MIT fiml festival. 50 teams had 5 days, an iBook abd a video recorder to make a 10 minute video. They showed the top 15 entries. One team, named TEAM AWESOME, was so awesome that they didn't bother to turn in a video. I think they have the videos on the web. You could probably google it or something. The winning entry was about these shoes and whoever wore them had serious issues i.e. drug dependance, suicidal tendencies, etc. One of the funniest ons involved a white kid getting back to his Asian roots after getting in to MIT, where, according to the film, 88% of all students are Asian (this is blatantly wrong but adds effect). So he goes to these Asian kids, and they start giving him all these "Asian" tests. One invloved eating with chopsticks. Another involved kareoke, I believe. The final test of one of kung-fu skills, and in badly dubbed format, the ehite kid says, "I have seen both Rush HOurs 1 AND 2" and then he whhops the tar out of the ninja kid, so he becomes officially Asian. It was really cute. I recommend you try and find them.

I think I'll just finsih Thursday for now and continue with the rest later.

So afterward I headed over to the official prefrosh icebreaker party. They just had everyone gets in small circles and play Bingo with people. I helped fill in the space "Does not have their license yet" but it was pretty lame from the get go (the bingo thing at least.) Then we went to the ice skating rink sans the ice for the dorms/greek festival. One of the dorms made almond jello. It was weird. One of the fraternitties had DDR and so everyone was trying their best at it. But everyone was failing and no one knew why. Suddenly it hit me that there was a delay between actually stepping on the pad and it registering on the screen. with that knowedge, I managed to get an A on Drop the Bomb on standard mode and everyone was "woowwwwww." They had plenty of food and games and even a bumper car setup outside, but I was tired and left around 11.

My host is not... how would you say.... clean. All of his stuff was on the floor. His roomate's stuff, too. But I managed to put all tghe clothes from the bed to the floor and slept. Also we found out later that his roommate also had a pre-frosh, so we took the beds and our hosts were nice enough to find another place to sleep. Most dorms across MIT are doubles, but Burton-Conner has singles and doubles and, apparently, really comfy couches. But especially the decor or the dorm room and the bathroom (COLD AND SMELLY= negative points) made me feel very unwelcome and I was hoping that things would be a lot better in the near future. Had I needed to decide right then and there, I would've said I definately wouldn't go to MIT in the fall. But I tried to be optomistic and slept without shivering too much.

So ended the first night.

(notes to self):
egoheaded
freeness
rudeness
classes
how to (or not to) get wasted in three easy steps