Let's Follow the Cops Back Home

Olin has a homegrown variant of The Game called the "Olin Challenge", whereby you lose if you see an Olin student or alumni outside of the campus. Living in Boston, this is easily done; in other states or countries, losing is few and far between, considering the small number of actual alumni yet. The only time I've personally run into an alum (a recent graduate) was at the Museum of Science. No wonder; when I graduate, I'll be only the seventh(!) graduating class.

In other news, Subversion is old hat and Git is the new hotness. Moving to GitHub en masse, redesigning the site, recording music, and perpetually open to commission work during the lengthy, poor summer days.

Technobilitation

Decimating your "Add/Remove Programs" list in Windows is therapeutic.

Now I've moved to a house that's on top of the world

Olin's candidate's weekend was splendid! There were design projects, glider building, puzzle-guided tours (!), and plenty of free snacks. FWOP's performance of Lend Me a Tenor was hilarious, and the Olin campus is much prettier (and bigger than I thought) at night. Apparently, they even have an OLPC club. I find out about my acceptance the weekend of March 20th; I'm hoping for the best.

I'm also anticipating the days until vacation. I have some programming projects which have been on the backburner for months, which I can't wait to complete.

I may be nearing the end of my senior year, but not regretfully.

Recently

Since I last updated:

• Danny and I have both earned the rank of Eagle Scout.
• I've been selected as an Olin candidate. (Attending the Candidate's weekend on March 6–7, 2009)
• My two teammates and I will be participating in Moody's Mega Math Challenge the next day, March 8, in an all-day math competition where we'll eat junk food and integrate national oil consumption for some reason.
• I've been cast as one of the leads in our next (original) play, Father's Day, which we'll be taking to DramaFest this year.
• The other lead, Steve, suffered an absurd snowboarding accident! (Get well soon buddy, you'll be back in snow time)
• It's almost spring.

I'm also eagerly looking forward to the day when all I have left is AP classes... thus giving me my first two free periods of the year.

There'd be no distance which could hold us back

So this is the new year.

Almost. I'm still in the midst of finishing college applications and finalizing my Eagle Scout project. At this rate, I think I can sleep by the time I'm 18 (just two weeks now), but January is sparse for days off and doubtlessly, third quarter will pick up my workload right where my other obligations left off.

Although I don't have a "writing" section of this site, I'll post some of my fonder college essays once they're completed. (Nothing like forced narcissism in essay form.) I just hope college admissions are understanding of my necessity to steer every writing opportunity into a narrative. I'm not sure if "Why does computer science interest you?" necessarily needs rising action and a climax, but it got one.

En ladrones

Eagle Scout project in T-minus 15 hours.

It's amazing how that which causes six months of stress will spring up on you like a thief in the night.

Sell out with me, oh yeah.

Not to imply that this be an actual blog (and certainly not to return to the anarchy that existed freshman year), but I've enabled comments.