today marks the completion of one full school year at MIT.

i got up in the morning at took my one and only final exam. i got rocked. yesterday i sorta felt like i knew what was going on, but none of the topics we anticipated (and studied in detail) were on the test. i felt like i knew about half the material, and the other half i was floudering on.

luckily, everyone else (including evan the supergenius) was groaning and showing visable displeasure with the difficulty level of the exam. since everything is curved, i may yet pull a B out of this course.

the class ended with evan, ben, greg, and i going out for lunch and a drink at the pour house.

...and then we went right back to work. we still hadn't finished the monte carlo assignment due today. in all technical respects it was done, it just needed to be put together. we printed some plots and i grammer checked the copy.

as we were stapling the final version together, i was looking at philip and marco who were in the same room still trying to get their code to compile. this was by no means an easy assignment, and i don't think a lot of the groups got theirs done at all, whereas ours looked really really good.

so we may be ok there.

my sister called me today, which is rare, asking for help with a problem in her computer - the one i built from junk parts last year. apparently the CDROM went nuts. i dunno. anyway, the weird part of the call is that jenny thinks, and i quote, "the matrix is a great movie. i love it."

umm... you're not the real jenny, what have you done with my sister?

just a little preview of what is to come wednesday night, ashdown presented the original star wars trilogy in the 'big tv room.' i went down for about 20 minutes of empire (the greatest of the three) but it was packed and stuffy, so i left. actually, the thing that really drove me out was the overabundance of heavy nerdity of a bad variety.

this one guy would do a bad impression of darth vader breathing, then six or seven guys around him would laugh with bad revenge-of-the-nerdian laughs. other times, people would errupt in unsettling laughter at seemingly random moments.

i don't think i was communicating on the appropriate nerd wavelength or something.

also in celebration of the new star wars film, the great dome of MIT was decorated (read: hacked) to resemble R2D2. made the news an everything.

my radio show tonight got canceled due to mysterious "technical difficulties." so i'm forced to spend another night playing lord of the red dragon again.

i tried to pack today, but all i did was take down my joker collection off the closet door.