March 2008
Monthly Archive
Glad it’s over
Posted by maggied on 15 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Home, MIT, Productivity
I managed to survive my week of four tests. My impression of the exams was that they all went reasonably well, particularly given the amount of time I actually had to study for each individual exam.
After the week ended, I decided I was getting cranky with the status of my inbox and completely reworked everything using The Trusted Trio (don’t hate on Lifehacker, folks). With additional hosage comes poorer organization, so I also took time to step back and make Remember the Milk happy again. In the process of browsing software I found Joe’s Goals, which a neat online app that lets you keep track of if you’ve been good or bad. It’s useful for keeping track of habits and running logs. I’m using it to keep track of when I get to sleep…Positive and negative reinforcement for the win.
This should be interesting
Posted by maggied on 10 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Home, MIT
Four tests this week. Ugh. We start off with the easier tests first, which is nice. 9.00 on Tuesday, 6.041 on Wednesday, and 6.012 followed by 6.003 on Thursday. Fortunately, I don’t have many obligations this week other than an EPIC UA Senate meeting tomorrow night. Tests mean no p-sets, so hopefully I’ll have plenty of time to study for the exams.
After the week is over, I’m going home for Friday and Saturday night, and will come back Sunday evening. Capen will be driving me down to Stamford on Friday, which is much more awesome than paying to take a train and sit alone for 3 hours. I’ll take Amtrak back on Sunday afternoon/evening.
Here’s to not dieing.
So it goes
Posted by maggied on 07 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: General
Another week, another night spent almost entirely tooling. I’m getting used to it; it’s “not that bad”, but in the grand scheme of things it isn’t all that fun. Eating breakfast this one day of the week sure is nice, though.
I’ve rediscovered Ok Go, a band well known for their song “Here it goes again“, in which they perform a neat dance on treadmills. I don’t know if many people have heard their other stuff, but I really like the two albums Ok Go and Oh No. I listened to them originally back in high school but haven’t in a while. I’ve got C-C-C-Cinnamon lips stuck in my head right now. So. Damn. Catchy. Agggh. They have a definite sound to them that you can tell apart from other bands, but at the same time they have diversity in their songs such that it doesn’t get boring.
Other notable songs: Get Over it and You’re So Damn Hot (both on Ok Go). Their first album is really much better than the second, IMO, but Oh No is still worth listening to, if only for the treadmills. Oh No is less catchy, more musical I guess, but some of the songs just sound like noise and that’s no good.