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| - No Murder Holy crap. Check out these:
www.padiskydiver.com
www.padialtitudediver.com
Yeah SCUBA. By the way, my new wetsuit came in. I have a whole lot of gear now. I am only short the expensive stuff: BCD, regulator, tanks. Yarg, a pirate's life for me. | | |
| - Insomnia I went to the Boston Museum of Science today. It was rather unexciting, which is sad. I was also disappointed with the New England Aquarium. WTF Boston? Let's get it together here...
So, I unleashed the beast that is Beer Pong on these nerdy research scientists. Surprisingly, I wasn't the worst player here. I won a few games as well as put down nearly an entire 1/5th of vodka by myself. It turns out I'm the most sociable intern here, which I find amusing. Yarrrrrgggg. I'm really going to miss two guys when summer is over, I made a pair of really good friends. I guess that's how these things work out...
I'm very confused about everything. I know I really want to go off and get a Ph.D. in engineering, but I doubt I can get into a school better than Purdue because Rose is only so prestigious and I'm not exactly a perfect student. The more I think about it, I often find myself daydreaming of becoming an army medic. I also daydream about being back in one of my highschool bands playing gigs at parties. I also think it'd be cool as fuck to become a commercial diver and do underwater construction/demolition.
I know I'm supposed to be done with stupid ambitions, but I am really unhappy at work lately. Almost all the intellectual work was done on the sensor project that I'm working on, so I've been filling in some of the intellectual gaps and working out assembly preparations for the sensor, but none of those things are real "research" things. Any engineer could do my job. Fuck, I could've done this job 2 years ago if I had a circuit book to use as reference. I also went to a few fellow interns' end of summer talks, and they all did REAL ORIGINAL RESEARCH. I was told to not bother with giving a talk by my boss because my work involves nothing new, exciting, or original. I feel overwhelmed by the amazing things these other interns are capable of doing, and I realize how pathetic my own resume/portfolio are. I know I'm way out of my league here, and it scares me...
Since the lab arranged for us to have cheap rooms in the MIT dorms, I have an MIT student ID right now. Unfortunately, they're going to make us return the IDs at the end of the summer because I guess they can be used for something at the lab? It's painful to have to give that ID up. That ID makes me feel so much better about myself...
Tough decisions. I got an email about a co-op position at iRobot. iRobot is a company that makes the Roomba, the autonomous vaccuum cleaner that teaches itself how to clean your house. They also make PackBot, the Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle used for scouting, recon, communications, and bomb disposal by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Ordinarily I'd kill to work there, but the position is for September through December this year which would COMPLETELY fuck me over as far as completing classes go. I decided to apply for an interview and give it a shot, but if I get an offer I don't know if I can accept it. I don't think Rose would give me my tuition money back if I left in the middle of the first quarter, and I sure as fuck don't want to spend another 2 years on my bachelors...
I don't mean to bitch, whine, and moan, so sorry if I'm boring you. Too many things on my mind... | | |
| - 94 hours So, I've decided that DevilDriver's new cd has grown on me. I'm still not impressed with their newest cd, but I guess I'll listen to it. DevilDriver has definately lost their place as #1 in my opinion though...
So it turns out that I'm working an extra week. The project I'm working on is a HUGE deal for the lab, it involves a big test at the Pentagon and my role is pretty big. I wonder why the fuck they left this role to a damn intern...? Anyway, the lab can't technically house an employee due to government regulations (they're a national defense lab), so I'm staying at my group's physicist's house. She's really nice, but I can't imagine her place will be too exciting. I'll have to bring along some books to read...
Ack, time to go. I'm off to try out an authentic Irish Pub, supposedly with the best Guiness Stew in Boston. Yarrrrg! | | |
| - Everyone Holy shit. So I went to this concert at the Middle East (random club in downtown Cambridge). The first 4 bands were moderately heavy, to my delight. Yes, I checked out all these band's websites and downloaded a sample of their music a week ago, so this wasn't a surprise. However, the pit during each of these bands consisted of the crowd that was waiting for the headliner, a British punk band (Sub-Humans). These punk rockers set up a circle pit and did the stupid little pit walk/dance thing, but instead of beating the shit out of each other, they just did the little pit walk/dance thing.
In case you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, I can *try* to explain it. Most pits have a bunch of guys that walk around in a circle trying to beat each other up. They walk around, however, with this weird gait that looks not completely unlike a skipping gait. I think it's really lame, in hardcore pits (like for slipknot or cradle of filth) people just break out into a giant fight without the lame dancing.
Anyway, these punk kids did this really lame pit where they did the stupid little dance thing but they didn't really try to fuck each other up. I jumped in and smeared a few pussies into the ground to the delight/horror of the crowd. I got hit in the face a few times, but I got the pit going a little more like how it should. Good times...
Work sucks, but what else is new? It'd be better if my project wasn't at the crunch time (especially while being horrendously behind schedule). O man, the AC stopped working today. Not only was it unbearably hot, but they had to shut down the servers to keep them from overheating which shut me off from the net which I need to finish designing another chunk of my project. How shitty is that?
Ack, only 5.5 hours to sleep! Time to hit the sack... | | |
| - Before the Hangman's Noose My parents came to visit me in Boston. They just flew in today. They've been really nice to me lately because I haven't been home for more than a quick visit since I went off to college (I've had a different summer job in a different state ever since frosh year).
My rents took me to a seafood place and I had lobster for the first time. I didn't want to ever have it in Indiana because I wanted to try it on the East Coast where it'd be fresh. I haven't gotten any in the last 6 weeks I've been here because that shit is fucking expensive. I normally eat turkey/chesse sandwhiches every night (yay for not having money). Anyway, I thought the lobster was pretty damn good, but I didn't see why it was so expensive. I'd take a good bloody rare steak any day of the week. It was also kinda weird because they bring the lobster out to you in it's shell, and I've gone scuba diving with lobsters. Lobsters are fun to play with and grab their tails, so I kinda felt guilty eating one. Then I decided to stop being a pussy and I hacked that fucking lobster to bits. YAAAARRRRGGGG!
I'm SOOOOOOOOOO pissed off. DevilDriver was my favorite band, but I think they're going to have to loose their awesomeness status after this new cd. The new cd is okay, but their original cd was 1000000000000 times better. WTF?
I donated blood at work. I found it amusing that the lab I work for not only makes us work 10 hours per day, but now takes our blood too. I guess it was only a matter of time. I'M JUST KIDDING! IF YOU'RE A SECURITY OFFICER LOOKING AT MY BLOG TO SEE IF I SHOULD GET CLEARANCE, KNOW THAT I LOVE AMERICA AND MIT LINCOLN LAB KICKS ASS.
Enough talk, time to drink. Speaking of which, my rents wanted to get drinks for desert, so I got 18 year Macallan scotch. Normally that shit goes for $30+ for a glass, but it was super cheap at their hotel. I've never had such great scotch before. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, liquor......
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