Okay, so it's not THAT cold outside, but it's starting to get down there in degrees. My senses need to be recalibrated to Boston temperatures, southern California ones don't apply here (if they did, winter started a month ago).

Speaking of calibrating! I've got a UROP now at House_n. (Okay, technically I should be saying I "participate in a UROP" since UROP = Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, but I don't recall anyone commonly saying it like that except the UROP website itself.) Currently I'm working on a project that involves small accelerometers, called "Wockets", that when placed on crucial parts of the body (such as the wrist, ankle, thigh, and arm) wirelessly transmit data about the user's movement to the user's cellphone to be stored. This data can then be used by various algorithms to determine some very interesting things such as what the person is doing and how much energy they are expending which doing what they're doing. The goal of this particular project is to craft a program that will give personalized health advice, determined by the data sent from the "Wockets". Pretty cool stuff, eh?

Besides gettin' into the swing of the UROP, I've been doing a little house keeping for blondegeek. I added some photos to the blondegeek facebook page (if you are on facebook and you are not a fan, I highly recommend that you become one, IMMBO (In My Most Biased Opinion)) and I have moved the shirts to my room with the intention of counting my true inventory.

Oops. Forgot to do part of my 18.02 p-set (small part, but still a part). Better get to that.

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How do ya'll like the new site design?

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Well, hello there! I'm in my seventh week of being a frosh at MIT, and so far, so good. For fellow MIT peeps: I'm taking 8.01, 18.02, 3.091, and 21M.011. For non-MIT peeps (and for those who may not have been acquainted to 21M0.11): I'm taking Mechanics, Multi-variable Calculus, Intro. to Solid State Chemistry, and Intro. to Western Music. My upright bass is here with me in my dorm (sitting pretty on a stand in one of the corners of the room - you know you have it made if you have more than one corner in your room) and the shirts are in a storage unit down the street. Can't say that I've been doing much more than just good 'ole schoolin', but I have been into Boston a few times for free symphony concerts and such (free, good music = greatness) and MIT's ice rink just opened (my ice skates are overjoyed at this fact), which should guarantee that I will pull myself away from my desk every now and then.

Now, I would love to post some pictures of all this new goodness, but my camera is being shipped. So, pictures will have to come later, unless people get really desperate and need some non-textual information in their lives, and in that case, I could probably muster up the strength to draw some really intense stick figure-ish drawings of Simmons Hall and the Dome.

Definitely time to print some propoganda that will find it's way into MIT's halls later this week ;)

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