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It's TIME!
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Posted by: uh...ok
As I'm delaying packing to the very last second... I'm trying to enjoy my last night here in San Francisco... and on the West Coast. And in my house with my family and all my friends. 
I fly tomorrow at 2PM from Oakland to Boston... arriving at midnight, stay at a hotel for the night, and then check in to my future Residence Hall the next day... and from there Orientation and getting my room and SCHOOL.
Ahhhhhhhhh.............
-uh...ok
Posted by: Gunslinger
Boston?
MIT?
Posted by: redwench
Yay! good boy! you picked the right school!
Posted by: Heathen
All da best man.... and ENJOY it....
Posted by: Shalome
Congrats, uhok.  You'll have a great time!
Posted by: TheeMon
grats uhawk whatcha going into man?
Posted by: Freak
Good luck with the chicks at MIT
Posted by: Kdr Kane
Congrats, uh...ok!
Posted by: Tweaker
Congrats, uh...ok! Good Luck!!!
Posted by: Chako
Congrats!
I can't wait to get back to work. Attended a 2 day conference on literacy in the classroom. Got me all pumped up. HS classes start on the third over here. 
Posted by: Ghetto Blasta
Have fun getting your learn on at MIT!
Posted by: The-AoD
School Sux0rs j00! hehe Good job dude. Have fun.
Posted by: uh...ok
Well I'm here. In my temporary room. With my temporary roommate whose picture I've seen but I haven't met yet (he put all his stuff out already). It's gonna be like 5 days until I get to pick my REAL room and REAL roommate and finally move in.
I don't have slippers.
And it feels like I'm just here for a couple days and will be going home with my dad on Tuesday.
-uh...ok
Posted by: Shalome
Crazy.. you move in, THEN pick roommates? Weird. Those uber-smart MIT people must have better roommate-picking options than I had.
I was originally given a hyperactive sorority-rushing 90201-watching ultra-peppy cheerleader who wanted to put up a nice wallpaper border of hearts and bunnies, and who wanted us to buy matching pink-and-yellow bedspreads. I told her that her decorating scheme would clash with my clothing and Nine Inch Nails posters. Then I bolted and found myself a nice, hip Tawainese girl to room with.
Posted by: Chako
Sounds better then my off campus ex friend room mate who was semi schizo (didn't know it at the time until I really got to know him). He loved playing Super Nintendo 24/7 "loud" to drive me crazy. He would also buy rock candy by the ton, then throw everything on his bedroom floor so that you had to walk over it and in it because it was 3 inches deep. He would pick his nose and past it on the wall right next to his bed for posterity’s sake. A physical miasma of stench would creep insidiously from under his (most of the time) locked door to pollute my living area. Most of it coming from week old underwear and clothing draped on the rock candy, candy boxes, wrappers, food droppings, and whatever made its living in his provided utopia.
At the start, we made a deal that each of us would cook every other day and clean the dishes. I was so sick of macaroni and cheese, or if not that, really greasy half cooked food, that I found myself cooking for myself soon thereafter. Just to show you how bad it was for me....He kept a pot of hamburger grease in the fridge. When I found this thing, I asked him what the hell was it. He replied that he was saving rancid grease to cook with. I quickly threw that crap out. Another time, he wrapped aluminum foil around several potatoes and placed them in the microwave. One for my roommate, zero for the microwave oven. He blew that door across the room. Not only did he place them in metal foil, but forgot to make air vent holes in them. The landlady wasn't very happy about that, being her microwave.
There is much more...but I won't get into it. I feel your pain Shal
Posted by: Gunslinger
Hooray no roommate!
*hides*
Posted by: Canis Lupus
Hah ... here's me in my dorm in my first year in college ... you're looking at one third of the room... my roommate's the one taking the picture while sitting in bed on "his" side of the room......
http://www.tolitz.com/myphotos/college/college-09.jpg
talk about tiny...
Posted by: Shalome
You know, I think you've had the same expression in every picture I've ever seen of you... that same kind of "**** off!" look.
And yeah, that room is tiny.
Posted by: redwench
hmmmm, laggy was a hot pup back in the day.
youhawk, slippers are evil, and people put things in them. go barefoot.
Posted by: AK47
heh, sounds like a fun time, chako.
Luckily for me, my roomate is a good friend that I've known forever. We get along suprisngly well. However, if I didnt know someone at my school, there is no way in hell I'd have a random roomate. I'd cough up the extra dough it cost for a single room and I'd be happy.
Moving in with some random dude aint my idea of a good time, and I'm sure it wouldnt be his once he got to know me..
Posted by: Null Actor
I'm sure you are right.
Posted by: Gunslinger
One good thing about college, is weekends.
Man, I'm really blitzed right now.
Posted by: Shalome
Ahh, one of the many, many, many things I miss about college.
Stay there as long as you can, man.
Posted by: Chako
Yes. A worthwhile experience I would thrust on anyone, is to get some higher education.
You meet all sorts of weird, bizarre, and in that light...wonderful people there.
A really growth inducing experience that one usually misses after graduation.
As a new initiative of the Ontario Government (messing things up). We must get 15 University/course credits in 5 years. Who knows, might get my masters or PhD eventually. 
AK, I knew this guy from grade 9 up. My point is that you never really know a friend...even a good one...till you live with him or her for any length of time.
Posted by: uh...ok
Right now going home seems to be the best, yet farthest, thing in the world.
And I sense a roommate horror story thread resurrecting.
-uh...ok
Posted by: redwench
just stick it out, at least until the end of the semester. you might hate your roomate, but youll like the freedom and respect of living away from the rents. being treated like a child is something that no one misses
Posted by: Nfested
Hey uh...ok have fun in Boston its an awesome city.
There's literally a Starbucks (literally!) in every corner. And don't get confused when you see that some older places of the city have tall tables where you have to stand to eat your lunch. It's suppose to be like that.
And if you have a chance grab a bunch of your friends and go on the Boston Duck Tour, not for the tour itself but you get to drive the duck!
Posted by: uh...ok
Actually my parents always treated me pretty well and almost as an adult. I spend much of my time at home away from them to begin with (they're very hardworking since they have to take care of their own business). So the only difference now is that I don't get free food and someone to do some of the chores for me.
Well not that I'm lazy or anything... but it's a big change. And yea... I'm planning on sticking to it. But it still doesn't feel all that great... yet.
And I might end up living in a single, if all goes well (if I get lucky enough to be one of the first 50 drawn out of the lottery, or if no one else wants a single).
-uh...ok
Posted by: Blackknight
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Originally posted by uh...ok
(if I get lucky enough to be one of the first 50 drawn out of the lottery, or if no one else wants a single).
-uh...ok
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Right... no one else wanting a single. Ha!....Ha!!
Posted by: Shalome
Yeah, you can definately tell school's back in session. I've been registering script-kiddie scans on the firewalls all night, and they trace back to stuff like dorms at Stanford and computer labs MIT. 
Posted by: Freak
http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/25/mi...s.ap/index.html
if you're interested.
Posted by: uh...ok
Last year's 4200 freshman...
Huh. This year we only have about 1010 freshmen.
-uh...ok
Posted by: redwench
youhawk, thats not possible. if you had 1000 freshmen, the school would only have about 5000 undergrads. thats the size of a large high school. you probably are in a subunit of 1010.
Posted by: uh...ok
We have about 980 freshman this year.
It was a typo on the news report. Or a messup.
-uh...ok
Posted by: Cheese
5000 undergrads sounds about right for MIT.
Hell, if I had gone to Rose-Hulman in Indiana it would have been smaller than my high school. About 1600.
Posted by: Chako
You tend to get a better education in the smaller institutions..providing they offer the course you want.
When it comes to education, more isn't always better.
Posted by: Wacheif
school hahahahahhahaha , umm lol right now im home schooling.... i got held back twice cuase i would move and miss so much  so now im gonna be homeschool , as for when i go to colledge ill either be one of thoe kids who is still at home and at a local colledge or me and my best friend will get a apartment hell no to dorms lol
Posted by: uh...ok
I'm pretty sure it's 980, guys...
Ahhh... my dad flies out tomorrow afternoon. But on the bright side, I only have 3 days left until I move into a permanent room.
Cross your fingers and hope I get a single! I really want it...
-uh...ok
Posted by: uh...ok
So... who lives in Boston or near the Boston area and can give me rides to grocery stores if I need to go?
-uh...ok
Posted by: Shalome
Erekose does, I think.
Posted by: redwench
erek lives in ri, he just visits boston. youhawk, im sure theres grocery store within walking distance of mit. boston/cambridge are big walking cities, unlike LA.
Posted by: Freak
Learn to cook, then charge for it. I doubt any of your classmates know how
Posted by: uh...ok
You know what's hella cool? I GOT A SINGLE! And it was the one I really liked too. It wasn't my first choice, but it HAD been my first choice up til tonight (I found a lot of really cool people down on the 4th East, but all the rooms there got taken up quickly, and I was lottery #89).
Strangely no one wanted my room, so I got it!
-uh...ok
Posted by: Shalome
Right on! Lucky man. Now you can bring chicks home without worrying about your roommate's sleeping/cleaning/masturbation habits.
Posted by: Blackknight
And you can decorate your room however you want! I am counting on you to make a OTS junkie dormroom!
Hmm we need OTS wall paper.
Posted by: Ghetto Blasta
And OTS bedsheets!
Posted by: Chako
Quick man! There might be profit in selling such items to them.
Posted by: uh...ok
Guess what... my room is in what's called an elevator suite (basically it has a door that closes off from the rest of the dorm, but it's always been open)... there are basically 3 other rooms.. one is directly to my right when I open my door, the other one is just a foot beyond that, and the last is across from me. They're double, double, and single, in that order. So that's 5 people. And they're all girls.
One of the girls in the second double is pretty cute too. I helped them move in today, and like 4 of us (the two in that room + 1 of their guy friends) had dinner together.
-uh...ok
Posted by: Hambones
That's the way to get yo' mac on!
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