So several happenings:

West Hall 3rd floor lounge is now officially the best lounge in the school. We just got a 42" HDTV for the lounge. Dang, I love how rich Olin is. Basically the East Hall 4th floor lounge's TV broke, but nobody actually hangs out in the lounges in East Hall, so instead, we pushed to get a new, nice TV here in West Hall. Well, in the end, we got it! I set it up yesterday and immediately played GTA on it. Well, let's just say it was awesome. I hooked up cable, and for some reason which nobody knows, the cable here is reaaally really staticky, so watching cable on the big TV was a bit sad. So I brought out my TV antenna, hooked it up to the TV, and started kicking it in HD. The HD broadcast towers for Boston are right next to Olin so we get great reception. So yeah, 42" of beauty. One down side of HD: we were watching the presidential debate and we could actually see the wrinkles on McCain's face :D. Anyways, I'm excited to watch The Office tomorrow in HD!! Oh, and we only get the few local channels over the air, so we're just leaving cable plugged in to the TV.

So I built my hopper for Design Nature, and I found out how much it fails. The three legs are supposed to come down, hit the ground, and meet each other at the bottom of the hopper. The hopper then jumps up to Mars after the high impact collision of the legs again

st the ground. Instead, what really happens is the legs snap together. And the hopper jumps about 5 cm. Hooray! That's just a tad less than my two foot goal. I talked to my professor, Ozgur, about it, and he helped me through the problems and what's going on, and that definitely helped a lot. It's pretty cool to actually see it though. And I'm glad because everything works smoothly, it does exactly what it's supposed to do. It's just that the design is really lacking. Oh well. The model went from 3D to in my hands. K

ind of hard to describe the feeling, but it's really awesome! So now I have to make some changes to it, which includes shorter legs, heavier base, tighter rubber tubing, and stuff like that. I'm hoping it'll work in the end! The project is due Wednesday...eek.

So exciting stuff! This Monday my uncle will be in town and we'll probably go out somewhere for dinner which will be fun! And then next weekend my friend from California's going to be coming!! So hooray for that. Definitely. And other stuff...OH!

I have a class called "Seeing and Hearing." Let me repeat. "Seeing and Hearing." Let that stick in your head for a bit. Now what if I told you that my professer for that class's name is Helen Donis-Keller. HOW GREAT is that?

Everybody always gets a kick out of it. I definitely did. Anyways, she's gone all this week, so we aren't having any classes. We have class twice a week, but still! Tuesday at 10:00 am me and 3 other people went to the Babson ice skating rink to celebrate the fact that HDK (as she likes to call herself, but she doesn't want other people to call her) is gone. It's a 1 minute walk from campus, free admission, and skate rentals are 5 dollars. I'm thinking of buying my own pair of really crappy skates for like 40 or 50 dollars, because even if I go twice a year, they'll pay themselves off after 4 years.

Anyways it's sort of late. I should sleep. Got 4.5 hours last night...I was exhausted today.

Oh! Haha more things just keep coming. I'll be brief. I made a thermostat in class today. Yup. A thermostat.

Bye!!