When it Rains

When it Rains Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. Ill spare you the Oh the memories, it went by so fast, if only I had more time crap and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually like: STRESSFUL! Just like in high school, a favorite strategy of professors is to assign tests right before finals (to minimize the amount of new material between the last test and the final), meaning I had an 18.03 test a week ago and an 8.02 test this week. Actually, instead of putting these into paragraph form, let me do a quick rundown of what Im doing and what stuff is due: Wednesday 8.02 PSET due (havent started) 2.001 PSET due (halfway there!) Powerpoint for Toy Design (havent started) Thursday UROP Toy Lab (work on presentation/build toys) Friday 18.03 PSET due (havent started) UROP Meeting Saturday Work on Toy Design all day Sunday Work on Toy Design all day Monday Work on Toy Design all day Tuesday Toy Design Presentations So, lets see, where does that put me? Ive got a physics test I havent studied for, a 2 PSETS I havent started, a presentation due tomorrow that I havent touched, and five toys to help build and present in exactly one week (seriously, Toy Design is freaking me out right now). But wait, theres more! Ill save the full story for later because its ongoing, but I still havent taken my pre-employment drug test for Hasbro so I need to find time for that. Oh, and did I mention that last night the hard drive on my computer randomly died. Thats right, just went away. I spent 5 hours running diagnostics and talking to tech support this morning trying to figure out what happened before we finally worked it out such that Ill get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely clean. Just one more thing to add to how busy I already am, rebuilding my computer. Ill have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me from home, Ill have to reinstall Dreamweaver, Portal, SecureFX, the MIT VPN, replace all my bookmarks in Firefox, change all of my user settings around, install Matlab and SolidWorks again, get iTunes up and running, and everything else necessary to restore my computer to its original state. Do I have time for any of this? Right, two weeks before finals, hardly! IHTFP much? Yes methinks, back to tooling . . .