Yesterday, I had looked forward to saying: "Today is the day of the York Peppermint." In 6.001, our tutor gives out York Peppermint Chocolate patties to those who ask questions he deems excellent. I finally got a peppermint! But, I was busy yesterday, studying for DifEq and orchestra, and realizing that 6.001 project is due this friday, not next. So, I have to say, though not as powerful of a statement as before: "Yesterday was the day of the York Peppermint."

Today was the day of the DifEq test. It was hard. Yes, hard. Tomorrow is the day of the Harmony and Counterpoint test, and the day I will spend slaving on my 6.001 project.

Hehehe. . . I'm giddy. . . I finished my 6.001 problem set. I still have my project, and Harmony and Counterpoint, and DifEq. . . But I'm surprised I'm awake, you know, since I went to bed at 4:00 last night doing physics. Janet came over to work with me on it, and she brought with her homework marinated pork chops to cook. So we ate clementines and those delicious pork chops while we worked.

Gosh, how did my schedule ever get so busy?? I guess this is what I asked for, though, in deciding to come here!!

There was a snow dragon coming out of the "moat" in the Chapel ^_^ how amusing. . . I feel so cultured to day: I went to tea with WILG at the Ritz, had scones and fruit tarts and finger sandwiches. And then, of course, I spilled fruit tart all over my pants, and so my feeling of daintiness ended. . .

current song: Enya, May it Be. . . Oh you walk a lonely road, how far you are from home. Believe and you will find your way. . . and then some elvish.

did you know that -5.2 + .88i is it's own 4th root?? Hehehehe. So used to thinking that only 1 is it's own square root. What a bizzare thought.

Even without school, we had orchestra today. Talk about a hardcore conductor!! Oh well. We all got to hear Alexy play the solo for the Brahms Concerto; it was so lovely.

I was reading math; I almost forgot to mention a law I learned in DifEq: Mattuck's "Law of Embezzlement": what is the maximum you can embezzle while the bank account still increases to make it look unsuspicious. If y=money in account, r= compound intrest rate, dy/dx = ry-w, where w is the rate of embezzlement, a pure time rate. As long as w is less than yor, the embezzler is safe. I'm starting to get suspicous of Mattuck. What motivation does he have for teaching us such things ^_~. All in the spirit of DifEq.

Hey!! Guess what? Tomorrow is a snow day!!! There hasn't been one since 1997. Lindy and Janet say that in East Campus, everyone is having fun covering up the giant windsail sculpture. . .

I still have to turn in physics, though, since it's on-line. Darn technology. ^_~

I'm such a lazy bum. . . I got up at 11:30 today. Cuz I had the Midori concert last night. Ohmigosh!!! She was amazing. She played the Sibelius. . . and with every stroke of her bow, golden drops of music fell at our ears. . . So heavenly. . .

So I went to church, and then attended the house meeting. . . I feel so mercenary, b/c I went to get food and sorta left. Really good food though. . .

And I got to see spirited away. It was such a cute movie!!! As far as story plots go where a boy and a girl are meant for each other, meet a long time ago, and meet again with sort of faint memories. . . (I'm so sappy, I love this, even though it's in 9000 different movies, I love this plotline or subplotline) this one was rather original. He was a river, and she fell into him as a child. Only sad thing; when he comes back to the world, will he still be a river???? And what really was No-Face?? Lots of stuff to ponder. Such a cute movie!! So bizzare. Reminded me of Lain in that it was about a little girl who started off seeming normal but had something special about her, that made her able to do stuff. . .

Yesterday was Valentine's Day, so happy Valentine's day. . . School is so much harder now! I guess this is what I was really expecting when I came to MIT. Programming is getting harder to understand; DifEq is confusing for me as well. . .

Oh, do you want to hear something stupid? I order Midori tickets for yesterday, only to realize yesterday afternoon that the concert was at 1:00, not 8:00 in the evening like I thought! Heheheh. . . My obvliviousness knows no bounds. . . But I've got them switched to tonight. . . I'm so excited!

Orchestra is interesting. . . We're doing, in addition to the Brahms Violin Concerto, a song by an MIT composer with 4 parts: 1. Scottish folk songs which would sound pretty except we're playing 5 at the same time in different keys, 2. A jazz song called "Out the Window" (not so bad) 3. A song called Meandering Stream 4. A jungle song, where the flutes are the birds and monkeys, and the violins are the foliage.

We had sight-singing on Friday. The song was by Medelssohn, it was really pretty. The words were funny though: "The God watching Israel slumbers not; neither does He sleep." How could have God slept and not slumbered? ^_^. I will have to know my do-re-mi's backwards and forwards, b/c we're "solfage"ing everything: singing in do-re-mi's. Or we're supposed to. If we sing skipping around, I just start guessing or hum instead. Then I'm so relieved when the teacher says, "Now we'll sing the words."

My, is Valentine's day big here! I kept seeing signs for "Valentine's Serenades, $15 by the Muses" or "by the Logs" (the Logs are our best acapella group, short for Logarythms, since everything here must be mathematical, and half this school's genius is coming up with names that are both relevant and mathematical. . .) But it was not until yesterday that I understood. . . The Logs barging in on classes and asking, "where's so and so? We have a song for her." DifEq had a total of 5 different groups: The Logs singing for a girl, and for all the new sorority pledges, a boy who had seen the signs up for Serenades and decided to make his own business too, the improv comedy troup, the Muses, and a boy who read a poem to a girl (perhaps not a group?).

I suppose I'm getting back to 6.001 now. . .

check out my site, please!! http://web.mit.edu/sailorhg/www/

weekend passed so fast. . . Friday, I had cooking group, we ate curry stuff, and it was really good. . . I got to draw another picture to put on my door. It's of a Sailor Moon villain, but she's really cute, and she looks all innocent and childlike in pink, swinging.

Lots and lots of homework, physics, DifEq, Harmony and Counterpoint, Structure of Comp. programming. Uggggs.

So, today, went to church, got to pray a little, went to eat sushi with a friend of David's. Then I got home, I got to practice, and it was lovely feeling the notes come through my fingers. For some reason, I started getting all nostalgic and stuff. It was awful. Aw, this week will be no fun. Except some WILG stuff next weekend. Even though I turned down my bid there, they're inviting me to hang out with them, go get Dim Sum and karaoke. So that should be fun.

the snow does not care where it’s going
floating lightly with the wind
the snow does not care that there are p-sets
silently beckoning me to come out
the snow does not care where it’s landed
it kisses the ground, the car, the little girl’s cheek
the snow does not care that my feet are wet, my socks are soaked,
and for once I don’t care either

Snowed today! What a week! So much happened. So much to do in 6.001, Dif Eq is soooooo hard, I don't understand it. . . And teal, for all the trouble it cost me, doesn't seem that great either.

yay!!!!!! 18.02A is over!!!!!!!! The weekend is here.