Howitzer

Just cried my eyes out when Grace was leaving. I haven't done that in a long time. I'll write more when I get to Boston.

EDIT 1:
So I am now in MIT. I'm quite busy trying to settle in, but I'm going to try to update on what happened the past few days. Grace and I had a long talk about our future, and we poured our hearts out talking about how we felt. She's still not completely sure if she's ready for the next step in our relationship, but I think she's getting closer. We shall see how that goes. We both cried a lot because we were going to be separate for longer than ever before.

EDIT 2:
I am now officially at MIT, as in my RA has started. I was freaked out last weekend, before starting orientation at MIT. I have it in my mind that MIT is this ivory tower with super duper geniuses, and that I was gonna get run over by their brain power. I guess I'm a little less freaked out now. The people here seem pretty normal, albeit a little geeky. The same thing happened to me when I started at Michigan. I remember the first few engineering classes, I was just in awe at how smart some of the people were. In the end, everything turned out ok for me. I suppose the same thing will happen here (hopefully).

Though I'm less scared now of failing out, a new problem has come up: I have no project. That means that I have nothing to work on all day, except to talk to people in my group and find out what they are doing. It doesn't help that people keep asking me what project I am working on. I feel like I have to give an answer. I tried talking to a few people today, and they were nice about it, and took time to explain to me what they did. However, I feel if I keep asking people to take time to explain to me what they do, some of them might get irritated. I will try to see if I can catch people doing experiments, and maybe I will be interrupting less.

So these are my immediate thoughts on school and being apart from Grace. I'll post an analysis later.

Listening to Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money. This song is sweet.

-Howitzer

Hurrah!

I got four vaccines today: Hepatitis A, Meningitis, Mumps/Measles/Rubella, and Tetanus. I'm overdue for three of those shots, so I'll consider myself lucky that I'm not dead at this point. Especially since, as George points out, I go to China pretty often. I only found out I needed all these shots because of some vaccination forms I needed to fill out to go to school in Massachusetts. Imagine, I show up at the clinic to have them fill out these forms for me, only to find out that I'm horribly under protected against dangerous diseases(haha).

My arms hurt like a bitch.

Also, Grace back in 3 days!

So I finally delivered the computer that I built for Grace's parents...and I'm really regretting doing it for them. It's not that it took a lot of time or cost me anything. It's just that..I'm afraid the computer will fail in some unforeseen way, and then Grace's parents will think that they made a bad decision in asking me to build their computer. See, the computer worked fine for a week while I used it. But what if a random hard drive error occurs? Well then it would be "my fault". In an OEM computer, the customer can go back to the OEM company and ask for repairs/fixes. However, if a home built computer breaks, then it's up to the builder to fix it. Which would be me.