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12/15/04
Has it really been two years?

Current pet peeve: "Never frown, because there may be someone who is falling in love with your smile."
Um, as far as I'm concerned, someone who is unwilling to see you frown has no business whatsoever falling in love with you.


12/12/04
[Isa]: http://www.pumpupthemovie.com/toss.html
[Isa]: we are NOT trying that during practice
[Isa]: i can see myself getting stuck


Let's get one thing clear: I hate studying.

12/9/04
Adam got me maps (of Boston, NYC, and Cape Cod) for Christmas.
Normal person reaction: Oh, um, nice.
My reaction: My boyfriend knows me better than anyone else in the whole world and it's just what I wanted!


I'm gmail-erific! I can now also be reached at [firstname.lastname]@gmail.com, in case you have any earth-shattering news which needs to be shared with me

12/8/04
Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe

12/5/04
Up next: 7.02, 7.06, 21A.216, 24.900, 9.URG, Bio Seminar
72 units of pure insanity


So ready for this term to be over! Not much left between me and two straight weeks of sleep...

12/2/04
[During the MIT basketball game, a player from the other team throws the ball at April's basketball player boyfriend.]
April (who is about 1/4 this kid's size): What the fuck does he think he's doing?!? I'll kick his ass!


11/28/04
Some weekends it just feels so good to spend two straight days acting like a bump on a log, watching TV, and ordering in...

11/27/04
The 7th annual Christmas Sock Marathon has officially begun!

After flying back to Boston in front of the world's most annoying pair of children, I have decided there should be a law requiring all children to be bound and gagged during interstate travel

11/24/04
I know I'm a nerd, but the new Google Scholar service is sooo hot...

I'm at home in Pickerington (plus Adam) for Thanksgiving!

11/22/04
Depressing: Professor Lois' guide to
careers in biology

Ashley makes a good point:
[Ashley]:
maybe you would have more time to sleep if you didn't spend so much time figuring out the stats of the amount of sleep you've been getting

11/19/04
I've been keeping sleep statistics for two full years now! And they're super ugly...

11/17/04
20 Questions fun in D-Entry:
Me: Are they in politics?
Mark: Yes.
Jay: Are they the Beatles?


11/16/04
PLEASE think twice before sending stupid AIM forwards... I promise your screen name will not be deleted from AIM, nor will you have 10 years of bad luck if you do not forward these ridiculous pieces of junk to 20 of your closest buddies

11/14/04
Adam's grandma, upon hearing that Adam is to spend Thanksgiving with my family in Ohio: I didn't even know people outside New England celebrated Thanksgiving!

Happy 7 months to me and the Adam

11/11/04
A ridiculously good day in my world: Skipping the second half of 7.23 to gossip with Swaps, all my minipreps being right, my postdoc driving me home and calling me Molls, Adam being home early... it's the simple things that make life wonderful

11/10/04
Professors officially suck at deciding how much work is too much.

11/6/04
All my spam used to be about male enhancement creams, but now is all about painkillers. Do people really buy prescription drugs from spammers? Are they insane?

11/4/04
"It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood.'" -Enoch Powell

11/2/04
After a terrifying 7.20 lecture on obesity, I am giving up full-calorie Mountain Dew in favor of diet. Any bets as to how long that'll last?

11/1/04
I don't believe in the judgemental shaming that seems to fuel so many small towns, including one very close to my heart...

10/28/04
The Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years on Wednesday, and I was stuck in my room studying the physiology of the liver. That's one to tell my kids.

10/27/04
One thing I have to admit I don't understand: people who use Webmail on Athena. Isn't the point of using Athena so that you don't have to use things like Webmail?

10/25/04
Now wait, who does Ethan sound like?
[Ethan]:
fine... ruin all my hopes and dreams... leave me to pine alone w/ 100 cats

10/24/04
Let's be honest: it's impossible to do work when the World Series is going on right outside your bedroom window. Go Sox!

10/19/04
I don't know why my postdoc puts up with me... today in lab I actually referred to a graduated cylinder as a "water volume measuring thingie."

10/17/04
[Adam examines a Halloween candy bar.]
Adam, critically: This is not "fun size." Fun size would be, like, the size of my bed.


My parents met Adam's parents without any blood being shed... and I think they actually like each other! Next step: Adam comes to Picktown for Thanksgiving

10/14/04
You know you've been a bio major too long when you see MIT and think monoiodotyrosine rather than Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It's my school for godssakes!

10/11/04
Adam attempts to write a love IM:
[Adam]: my dearest mollie, you are like a renegade moose
[Adam]: tearing through my heart


Everyone at OSU, OU, Miami, and anywhere the Facebook is supported: join the damn thing so I can have an excuse to procrastinate!!

10/10/04
We're so cute

For our six-month anniversary, Adam got me a diamond and ruby ring... and two mice. The boy knows me so well!

10/7/04
Thank heavens for this 3-day weekend (4 for me since I don't have Friday classes!)

10/6/04
I got my form turned in and now I'm a double major... and my UROP professor is my course 7 advisor. Yay for sheer laziness as a productive career move!

10/3/04
MIT Cheerleading: a bunch of cute girls in short skirts who can probably kick your ass

10/2/04
We are the shadow and the light

9/30/04
[Laura]: boooo... crying is reserved for crying over boys, not cheerleading

9/27/04
You know you've been a bio major too long when you see a parking sign (a P inside a circle) and you think, "Phosphorylated?"

9/26/04
Things I love:
My stunt group
That Adam's mom patched up my favorite jeans
Crisp fall nights


9/25/04
It's terribly wonderful to be cuddled in someone's arms and have them tell you you're "the other piece of the puzzle." Especially if you feel the same way.

9/23/04
I'm not going to have to die to double-major!

9/21/04
This new obsession with PDFs is oh so unhealthy
Candybar dolls are unhealthy too


9/18/04
I am one of three undergrads in the Picower Center directory

9/15/04
And now, due to my new ability to make PDFs (thank you, Alex), I bring you PDFs of various usefulness

9/13/04
Emily, 9.12 TA: Hey Neville, Mollie UROPs in Morgan Sheng's lab.
Neville, other TA: Wow.
Professor Lois, passing by: She deserves bonus points for bravery.


9/12/04
News flash to Atkins dieters: According to my physiology text, ingested amino acids in excess of those needed to maintain a stable rate of protein turnover are converted to carbohydrate. Your body will continue to snack on carbs, no matter what you do!

9/11/04
When you google the word "insane" within the MIT domain, my website is the seventh result. I'm trying to decide whether or not that hurts my feelings.

It's my favorite time of year again: football season. Go Bucks and go MIT!

9/10/04
I had forgotten how it feels to get out of bed after 4 hours of sleep and force yourself through an 11-hour day. Personally, I'd rather not remember.

9/6/04
You know that Sheryl Crow song where she sings "I've been living on coffee and nicotine"? If it were my song, I would be living on Gatorade and protein bars.

9/5/04
Non sequitur of the day:
[Jen lectures the squad about not dropping flyers]
Rita, making a face in the mirror: Ohmigod, it's been so long since I've made a fish face!


9/4/04
I love it when I'm right, but no one appreciates my sagacity until something that I predicted comes true

I don't believe it's true that "things will work out the way they're meant to, even if it hurts in the process." I think it is possible to make a mistake and miss your destiny.

9/1/04
I have the best friends ever... thank you all for doing more than your fair share to make sure MacG rush is successful.

8/31/04
How you know there is no mystery left in your relationship
Adam: My balls smelled so weird today! They smelled like dinner.


8/29/04
Welcome to the week of insanity... starting NOW

8/26/04
My postdoc is out of town this week... and instead of slacking off, I am working 9 hour days. And being competent. Who is this bench monkey and what has she done with Mollie?

8/23/04
Come meet my new pet, Fluffy! Fluffy is a 100 microliter aliquot of competent bacteria, and they live in an eppendorf in a fishbowl on my desk.

Oh goody, my next free day is September 10

8/21/04
Finally back on the Dell, having learned my lesson to back up my computer regularly

8/19/04
Fall term: 7.20, 7.23, 9.04, 9.12, 9.URG
I actually don't think I'm going to die this term, kids!


8/16/04
You heard it here first, folks:
[Me]: you like boys all scruffy and dirty... i should find you a hobo
[Laura]: a sexy one!


8/15/04
Back in A-Entry!

8/10/04
On the laptop until Dell sends me a new hard drive
Current status: Slowly recovering my life. I had a few files (like my sleep data) backed up to Athena, so I'm trying to reconstruct around what I have. Anyone with DeadAIM logs of our conversations after April, please send them to me!


8/9/04
There are certain people in my life who always know what to do when things go catastrophically wrong. You know who you are.

8/8/04
A32 suite shower curtain!

8/7/04
Adam: What are you doing?
Me: Ordering a wedding gift for Charles' sister from her registry.
Adam: Our registry is going to have a Ferrari on it!


8/6/04
Um... right.
We had [the Vietnam] war won until John Kerry... stuck [his] nose in it. -Steve Gardner, veteran, in the Columbus Dispatch


8/4/04
Great. It really all is in my head.

8/3/04
According to the Boston Herald, John Kerry elicited boos from a crowd in Michigan when he praised Ohio State football. The man is either amazing or very ignorant...

8/2/04
The boy has me figured out.
Adam: So, what do you want? [Cutting me off] Other than my constant attention.


8/1/04
I had another fantastic Plymouth weekend this past Saturday and Sunday... you know, maybe living on the East Coast forever and ever isn't such a bad idea?

7/29/04
Of someone who shall remain nameless:
[Swapna]: just comfort yourself with the fact that he's a stupid fuck who will never get any play
[Swapna]: you're infinitely hotter than he can ever hope to be


7/28/04
Apparently this is just not my week.

7/25/04
Honestly, who but Laura would be excited about this?
[Me]: how was clubbing last night?
[Laura]: i danced with sketchy guys! yay!
[Laura]: although i DID have to pull one guy's hands out of my pants


7/24/04
I hate Boston tourists. This definitely includes DNC delegates.

7/21/04
On 7/21, I was one of the first people in the world to actually see the structure of the AMPA receptor. And let me tell you, it looks nothing like a green pepper.

7/19/04
Me: Adam says that in Plymouth, they don't name their housing developments.
My mom: Then how do they know whether to look up or down their noses at someone?


7/17/04
I'd like to see you in a brushless motor.

7/14/04
Bringing the East Coast boyfriend home to meet the parents this weekend

7/12/04
I like this poll (from USA Today)

7/11/04
Adam: I'm going to run for President with Carl as my VP. No, wait... I think I'd have a better chance of being elected if I ran with a monkey.

7/9/04
[Swapna]: dude i am so your idol. i'm taking five classes plus TAing for pay!

7/8/04
I decided, instead of taking 4 classes and UROP for credit, I'm going to take 5 and UROP for pay. I take pride in my craziness. Swapna is my idol.

6/30/04
"Sketchy guy on the T hitting on me" count for the week: 2
Did I forget my sketchy guy repellent or something?


6/28/04
My air conditioner thinks he's outside!

6/27/04
Um, this one deserves a big EW.
Me: Can I use your shaving cream?
Adam: You don't have to ask. I don't ask before I use your razor.


6/24/04
"[Jobs in computer science] are way more interesting than going to Wall Street or being a lawyer -- or anything but biology, and there it's just a tie." -Bill Gates in Scientific American

6/22/04
End of summer goal: standing back handspring

6/19/04
As of June 21, I will have been dating more or less continuously for eight years. That's a damn long time.

6/16/04
I am now the proud owner of the most gorgeous AC setup anyone has ever seen, complete with sheets of foam, spray foam in the corners, and a water-removal system. Everyone should date an engineer.

You know you've been working in a bio lab too long when the first thing you think when you hear PBS is phosphate-buffered saline, not Public Broadcasting Service.

6/13/04
After riding 4 hours to NYC on a cramped bus, I have decided there should be a law requiring the muzzling of small children on planes, buses, and trains.

6/9/04
They need an alert to say this?
National Weather Service alert for Cambridge, 6/9: "Summerlike conditions will continue today."


6/6/04
[Adam gets out of bed to go get ice cream.]
Me: Boo, don't go. I like laying in bed and talking about our relationship.
Adam: That's cause you're a girl. But I'm a boy, and I like ice cream!


Summer trips:
NYC with Carl -- June 12
DC with Adam -- July 9
San Fran to visit Laura/Ethan/Alex -- ?


6/4/04
[Sarah]: mollie's the kind of girl you marry, not the kind of girl you date

Respectfully, you have no idea what it's like.

5/30/04
Feeling a little like Boston is home too now...

5/27/04
You know you're dating a course 16 nerd when all he wants for his birthday is a rocket... and you know you love him when you drop insane amounts of cash on eBay to buy it.

5/26/04
If I had a nickel for every inane rush email I've answered in the past two days, I think I would have at least enough for a value meal at McDonald's.

5/25/04
[Adam]: I'm toxic like britney spears but less slutty

I miss you...

It's official: SecureFX is so much better than FileZilla!

5/21/04
And why exactly is it that, now that I have nothing to do, I can't find anything to do? When I was supposed to be studying there were plenty of things to do.

5/19/04
Sonal, while littering: You guys aren't course 1. You don't care about the environment.

5/18/04
Living in D214 for the summer... come visit!

5/17/04
Things I'm babysitting this summer: Stephen's chair, Stephen's computer, Stephen's fridge, Rose's futon, Rose's cooking supplies, Adam

5/14/04
New favorite Ben & Jerry's flavor: Di's Candy Drawer. Amazing.

5/12/04
I'll be home from May 24th through the 30th... catch me while you can

5/11/04
[Rebecca]: i might have to leave carl, in light of the fact that EVERYONE wants adam
(Adam, in response: Yay for quotes taken out of context!)


5/10/04
Tell me I have a reason to wear this

Any suggestions for books to read this summer? If they're fiction, they'd better be good.

5/7/04
Adam: Who needs showers when you have Febreeze?

5/4/04
Dave, a gymnast teaching us to tumble, to me: Your only problem is that you're a total head case.

During the power outage, according to The Tech: Massachusetts Institute Without Technology

5/3/04
Future career (as decided by the derivs): Nobel-prize-winning trophy wife

5/2/04
I got to thinking about relationships... The most exciting, challenging, and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous.

Brass Rat

4/29/04
The Counting Crows are MY band. Laura can have them too.

4/28/04
Sarah and I go to school 900 miles apart.
[Sarah]: i am completely out of printer paper
[Me]: i am so dumb. i was almost like, oh, i have some
[Sarah]: don't worry, i almost asked to borrow some


4/26/04
I can't find all the right romantic lines
But see me once and see the way I feel


Slowly remembering what it's like... it's wonderful

4/23/04
I get more sleep on the weekends than I do on the weekdays. Unlike most people, I can say that with a very high degree of precision... in fact, there's less than a 0.000001% chance that I'm wrong.

4/21/04
Interesting.

It's starting to get nice and sunny and warm and ohmylord I don't want to go to class anymore

This is why Sarah and I have been friends for 12 years.
[Sarah]:
friends don't let friends wrongly believe they're not super-pathetic

4/19/04
Dormcest = best idea ever

4/17/04
Frankly, I think the universe owes me this for all the terrible opposite-sex BS I've been through in the past year.

Mollie 3, Adam 1

4/15/04
CPW is the one weekend per year when MIT turns into the happiest place on earth. It's like Disneyland plus computer nerds...

Given that I am obsessed with organizing things, I do not think it is even remotely surprising that I love labels.

4/13/04
My new computer is the sexiest thing I have ever owned. And keep in mind that I own a decent percentage of everything Victoria's Secret has sold in the past five years.

This summer: UROP, rush chair, class at Hahvahd... gonna be crazy busy and loving every minute!

Sleep deprivation and lack of hunger like whoa... resisting the urge to study myself

Potentially just a little twitterpated...

4/10/04
I'm gonna refrain from comment.
[Rebecca]:
are you still taking applications, or is the position filled?

4/7/04
I've decided I don't want a boyfriend so much as someone to curl up and fall asleep next to. Any applicants?

When he saw my 9.09 book, my postdoc made a comment about owning it. What he apparently forgot to mention is that he's CITED IN IT. So cool!

4/5/04
At the cheerleading competition on Sunday, the only soda they sold was Diet Coke. Can I be a cheerleader and still consume calories?

On Ethan's and the squad's spelling:
[Tulas]:
Ethan should be a cheerleader

4/4/04
Bah humbug: I hate spring fever, spring formals, couples, and love in general. Sorry if you happen to be included in any of the above categories.

4/1/04
In just-spring, when the world is mud-luscious
The world is puddle-wonderful


Summer 2004: here or here?

3/29/04
Me: Aww, all you can see of me in this picture is cleavage and a book.
Carl: Yup, that's Mollie in a nutshell.

3/28/04
Me: I'm not a big fan of her.
Laura: Me either. She's terribly ugly.


Jamaican madness!

Jimmy Buffet was right... cheeseburgers really do taste better in paradise. So do lots of other things, incidentally.

3/18/04
I'm next year's Macgregor rush chair! How do I get myself suckered into these things?

3/16/04
The only acceptable way to say nasty things about people in your profile is to say them ambiguously enough that they can't be sure if the nasty thing is about them.

Ethan: No orgy for you until you edit my paper!

3/15/04
Snack food is taking over my room. I have so many different kinds of chips, cookies, and other unwholesome goodness that I can't keep them all in my food box. Must... resist...

3/13/04
Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly...

3/12/04
[Me]: he reminded me a lot of you.
[Gary]: if he was like me, he MUST'VE been amazing!

3/10/04
I'm not course 9/7 because I think engineering is hard. I'm course 9/7 because I think it's boring.

For spring break, the twins are going to Alaska. Stephen is going to Iceland. Rose, Swapna and I are going to Jamaica, thus conclusively proving that women are smarter than men.

3/7/04
Starting Hell Week with massive productivity is always a good thing.

Right before we compete, someone asks: What should we say when we spirit on?
Various squad members: Go Tech! MIT #1!
Charles: We have higher SAT scores than you!


3/5/04
When I look at my schedule for next week, it makes me wish I had stayed in Ohio, married some nice boy, and been a stay-at-home mom. I'm not kidding.

3/4/04
I just have to survive the next two weeks... and then Jamaica!

2/29/04
Maritza: Are you going to look like that during the competition?
Laura: Like what?
Maritza: Pathetic!


Depressing, from Yahoo: A person living in Boston can stand naked outside all day in the winter and not make any vitamin D.

2/27/04
In the past 2 months, I have officially re-watched every single episode of Sex and the City. No comments, please.

2/26/04
MIT has more varsity sports than your undergraduate institution. Seriously. So quit asking me if MIT really has cheerleaders!

2/25/04
Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever

2/24/04
[Matt]: hey molls, mom and i both agree that u should get on a reality show and win the family some money so i can go to college

2/22/04
Cheerleading crunch time + new protocols at work + la semana del diablo in 21F.702... will this be the week I discover coffee and/or Red Bull?

2/21/04
Ohio pride!

Swapna: You're crazy.
Me: I'm just organized!
Swapna: Molls, there's a fine line between organized and crazy, and you are definitely crazy.


2/19/04
Summer 2004: DC or Boston? Help me decide!

2/17/04
New boots!

2/16/04
I like roses. Interesting how when I get them, I turn rather rose-red myself...

2/15/04
You know that ESPN commercial with the Ohio State fan and the Michigan fan? Is it really that disgusting?

2/14/04
Me, to Stephen: Are you God?
Stephen: If God lives in A-Entry, the whole world has problems.


2/13/04
I'll tell you what: The mood swings have got to go.

2/12/04
Laura Yip: Matlab goddess, partner in crime, therapist, lifesaver, confidante, neighbor, roommate, best friend

2/11/04
This is why I love Sonal.
Sonal, yelling up at me from the ground while I'm flying a stunt: Dude, your boobs look huge from down here!


2/10/04
Hey quarterman, how's about you and me?
So eerily appropriate...


2/8/04
Everything sounds better in Spanish.
ˇPara mí, ya no habrá fiestas!


2/6/04
[Topher comes to pick me up and sees Laura and Stephen in bed together. Later:]
Topher: So are Laura and Stephen together?
Me: No, why?
Topher: They were napping together.
Me, sheepishly: Yeah... welcome to A-Entry.


2/4/04
Is it too late to start playing by The Rules when the last time I was a Rules girl was 1998?

2/3/04
Genuinely joyful for the first time in ages...

2/2/04
Direct quote from my mom's email:
Your b-day present will be delivered soon - I hope. It is from the french designer store - target!!


2/1/04
Do I really have an Ohio accent?

1/27/04
Proof in this week's Nature that the MIT-no-sleep thing is going to screw us over in the end...

1/26/04
A true friend is someone who force-feeds you applesauce, crackers, and Sprite when you'd rather be face-down over the toilet.

1/24/04
Laura: Things are eternally in an uproar here.

1/20/04
I am surrounded by heathens.

Me: John 3:16, Stephen, John 3:16!
Laura: What is that, a screen name or something?


A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
The beak that grips her, she becomes.
 &nbsp-Adrienne Rich


1/17/04
I just realized that all three of the "dates" I've been on this school year were with guys in my suite. I definitely need to get out more.

1/13/04
I get paid to dip mouse feet in paint and make them run across a piece of paper. I love my job.

What's with my taste in music recently? I've been vacillating between Alanis and gooey sappy love songs... I think I'm regressing.

1/11/04
This month's theme is total physical exhaustion. Hey, whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger, eh?

1/6/04
Happy one-year anniversary to me and... me! Feel free to send anniversary cards and/or gifts.

M-I-T, I-A-P, F-U-N all month! (to the tune of the Mouseketeer song)

Who wants to go to Jamaica over spring break with me, Rose, and Swapna?

1/2/04
And there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last


New Year's Resolutions
1. To be confident. Because confident = sexy.
2. To actually be sort of social.
3. To think before doing, please.
4. To be joyful in all circumstances


12/29/03
MIT causes a state of constant sexual frustration, aka "mind in the gutter."
[Alex]:
oh, swaps said stephen is sleeping in your bed tomorrow, is that true? if it is, make sure he doesn't drink, he'll be after your boobies alll night
[Swapna]: i'm sick of smart boys with emotions and a soul
[Ethan]: maybe your dad will get lucky tonight
[Tulas]: have a statutory holiday season, as it were

12/27/03
Rose got the twins Men's Wearhouse gift certificates for Christmas.
[Rose]:
somehow I think $45 wont be enough to correct the 20 years of fashion damage already done

12/24/03
Gary: Can you believe it, you could have been a preacher's wife!
Me: Yeah, I'm not really the cookie-baking wife type.
Gary: I've eaten your cookies... [sees the look on my face] and you are definitely the cookie-baking wife type!


The word from my fiance:
[Carl]:
What's this world coming to??? looks like we're gonna have to tell everyone we are married now to keep up with everyone else, not just engaged

12/22/03
[Ethan]: you dont think do you?

Quote of the day from Gary: Take it from me, it is perfectly okay to be annoying as hell!

12/20/03
Stephen's coming to visit me next week! Yeah for having friends from school come visit.

Accomplished thus far at home:
2 bubble baths
reading the 1999 Tech archives


12/18/03
As of right now, I have a 5.0 for this term! Okay, so I only have my Spanish grade so far...

12/17/03
Unless anybody has any better ideas, I think the first thing I'm going to do when I get home Friday night is take a very long, very hot bath...

12/13/03
Me: We have to be stable as single women. Like me. I'm like Cl-. Very stable as an anion.
Laura: I'm O2-.


12/10/03
I am amazed by the things able to start arguments around here. For instance:
Ethan, randomly: I think the reason I have soft hair is that my dad is part Native American.
[Insert 2-hour argument]


Stephen, walking into my room: ...Zoloft!
Alex: What, you have heartburn?


12/9/03
I guess I don't need to seduce my TA anymore, since Carl and I are engaged...

12/8/03
There's a foot of snow on the ground! How are we supposed to study for finals with so many other fun things to do?

Does anyone know how precisely one goes about seducing a TA?

12/2/03
Car, after a particularly disastrous runthrough at cheer practice: It's cheerleaders gone stupid!

12/1/03
In honor of Charles and his boat, I will say that anyone who doesn't know what to get me for Christmas is welcome to go
here

All I gotta say is thank heavens Christmas music isn't chock-full of calories.

Well, I prereg-ed for next term: 7.05, 9.09J/7.29J, 9.07, 9.30, and 21F.702. Eat, drink, and be merry, for next semester we shall die...

11/26/03
I have a new cell phone, and it's totally sweet! The number is 614-[something that I'm not putting on the web; email me for number]... call me.

My parents are the best. They showed up at the airport with a Chipotle burrito. Hmm, maybe I wasn't in fact switched at birth...

Sonal is a woman after my own heart.
sleepylilfox:
isn't it frustrating when you cant just like have your way with a man?


11/23/03
Coming home for the first time in 14 weeks this Wednesday at 9:30 PM... who would ever have predicted that about me?

Thought on this week: how's about we skip the hosing and go straight to the turkey?

11/20/03
Why does my entire family (except me) get to go to the Michigan game?!? Rude.

Go rant!

11/18/03
I've been keeping my sleep statistics for a full year now, and the results aren't pretty. Let's just say term is not good to my sleep needs...

11/17/03
It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got...

11/16/03
Why exactly are people who need people the luckiest people in the world? People who need people just end up being codependent.

This is my team

11/14/03
Winter has come to Boston, so I have begun sleeping in long underwear, long pj pants, and a long-sleeved shirt plus three blankets. I am aware precisely how sexalicious this is.

Lust at first sight, anyone?

11/12/03
Tulas: She's a ho with a capital HO.

11/11/03
Current musical love affairs: Sarah McLachlan and Fiona Apple. Hmm, do I sound too much like a single, bitter female?

11/10/03
For the record, Evan (who took me to the Phi Delts formal) is not my significant other. But I did have a great time at the formal!

11/7/03
Major pet peeve: people whose profiles are full of vapid cliches and/or proclamations of love. Subtle is okay, but some people seriously need to get a life outside their significant others.

So I'm still reading the Tech archives (I'm up to 1996), and I just found a third person who committed suicide by jumping out of A-Entry. Thank goodness the residents today are sane [heavy irony].

11/5/03
Happy 10-month to me!

My derivative is taking me to the Phi Delts semiformal!

11/3/03
Hey, quarterman, hows about you and me?

My eyes are getting really, really bad, hence I need new glasses.
Guys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses... but perhaps I'm in the right place:
[Ethan]:
i think girls that wear the type of glasses you have look hotttttt

11/1/03
[Laura]: i should move to kansas... then maybe i'd get some ass

10/29/03
Introducing a new character to the profe: Dr. Timothy Swager-rhymes-with-lager, 5.12

Halogens are great, but what the world needs are more alcohols.

You can't talk about epoxides at MIT without mentioning K. Barry Sharpless, who used to teach 5.12 here. [Writes "K. Barry Sharpless - epoxides" on board.] He's now at Scripps -- we're not going to write that, because we don't like it.

The moment it's a naked carbocation, you can hit it from any side you want.

10/28/03
I'm totally crushin'
So crazy in love


10/26/03
"I can resist anything except temptation." -Oscar Wilde

10/25/03
I don't have mono! Whew. I'm just anemic, so if anybody wants to take me out for a steak dinner...

10/21/03
Sad: this summer, my average bedtime was 12:33, but since I've been back at MIT, it's been 2:48
Sadder: I spent time calculating this


10/20/03
My mom, chastising me about my sleep habits: I'm glad you live 800 miles away so I can't shake you!

10/19/03
Only at cheerleading practice:
Car: I got rugburn from [April's] butt!


Why am I so tired all the time? I don't like it one bit... fix me!

10/18/03
Saturday is the first day of the 6th annual Halloween Sock Marathon! (My brother brought my Halloween socks in his suitcase)

10/17/03
It's Parents' Weekend... I miss my mom.

10/14/03
The next time they ask me to show a mechanism for a reaction in 5.12, I think I'm going to show them this

Accomplished this weekend:
5.12 pset and 21F.701 worksheet
31 hours of sleep
Reading the 1992 and 1993 archives of The Tech
Revamping my livejournal
Conclusion: My life rocks


10/12/03
Evan, commenting on the 7 12-packs of Mountain Dew in my room: If that were beer, you'd be an alcoholic.

10/8/03
I ran into a Nobel laureate today. No, literally. I was standing at the copier in my lab, stepped back, and bumped into a nice-looking older man. I apologized and he went off to find my PI, at which point my post-doc said, "That was Phil Sharp." Wow.

10/3/03
Me: Hey guys, Ethan just told me that I'm cuter than Norcal!
Tulasi: Okay, my dead grandmother could have told you that.


I discovered today that, thanks to airline reorganizations, it's going to cost me $400 every time I want to fly home from Boston. NOT cool. I miss my mom.

10/2/03
From The Tech, 1990

10/1/03
So in Spanish, the phrase "Te quiero" can mean either "I love you" or "I want you." Whoa, somebody needs to tell the Spanish that those two sentiments are not synonymous.

9/30/03
No comments necessary.
[Ethan]:
i don't think you could handle me... not only am i a crumlin which means sex with me is phenominal.. but i'm ethan.... therefore its... out of this world

9/28/03
Laura and I are super-sleuths... by which I mean we are super stalkers. Wow, we should totally start our own detective agency.

These people are my friends.

9/27/03
Tulasi: I don't understand football.
Evan: Well, Alabama's beating Arkansas.
Tulasi: Like to death?


9/26/03
We have Skankmistress second derivatives!
d/dt(Laura) = Phil
d/dt(Mollie) = Evan
d/dt(Tulasi) = Vincent


9/23/03
Sorry to all the people who put that thing about "aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrgde Uinervtisy..." in their profiles/chain mails, but no such research was actually done at Cambridge. I looked it up. I'm sure all of the gullible people out there are shocked.

9/22/03
But it would be really funny if it weren't so tragic... right?

9/20/03
April: Shake your thing!
[I do a booty dance.]
April: Okay, you're white. Don't ever do that again.


9/19/03
What Macgregor needs is to do a hostile takeover of some more favorable spot on campus (since I'm sick of walking half a mile to class). I was thinking we could take over the Stata Center... with the look of Simmons and the location of EC, how could we go wrong?

Cheerleading camp this weekend!

9/13/03
So New England has clambakes. What do Midwesterners have to celebrate our chief agricultural products?

9/12/03
You know you're at MIT when... you use a computer in a dining hall to instant message your best friend on a UNIX-based system about plans for the night that include not alcohol, but chocolate.

Yeah for the A21 suite!
Stephen's friend Krish: You have the most dysfunctional floor ever.


9/11/03
Never forget
These [terrorist] attacks shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.
-George W. Bush


9/9/03
I live such a sad life.
Swapna [with my room phone in her hand]: Look up the number for Domino's.
Me [without skipping a beat]: 617-424-9000... or you could just hit redial.


Wednesday, 9/10/03 (all day): A-Entry ass-slapping day! Slap all the A-Entry ass you can, hot and fresh while it lasts!

9/7/03
[Bryan]: maybe all women are that fucked in the head and none are just honest enough to come right out with it
[Me]: i'm more open-source
[Bryan]: yeah, youre fucking linux

9/6/03
A night at Finale with Laura:
But I want him to die alone and miserable!


A night at Finale with Laura, part II:
Your problem with finding guys is that you're not dumb or fugly enough.