Greetings from Interphase!

Hello, World! Reporting here from Cambridge, MA, writing from an Athena Cluster in the lobby of Next House, on Dorm Row, in the West Campus of MIT. It is exactly the second day of Project Interphase, and we've already had a Calculus test. More like a diagnostic, but still, you've got to love it. OR ELSE. Yesterday was chaos, as any college moving day is wont to be, with everyone receiving their room keys and ID's, finding their rooms, cleaning up whatever presents those hasty former residents left behind, toting stuff up five flights of stairs, and fending off parents. I'm the happy resident of a single (SCORE!) on the fifth floor, right next to a handy little lounge with an even handier microwave. Great for morning tea, that...
Anyway, after giving the parents a brief tour of the campus and sending them toddling off back home, time has flown by. It's hard to comprehend that it's night number two already. Already I have (not necessarily in this order): received enough textbooks to make Mr. Schwarzenegger strain a bicep; gotten lost in the Infinite Corridor; sheepishly returned to La Verde's (the convenience store in the Student Center) twice within three hours; gone through the cafeteria line the wrong way; accompanied AJ the flutist on the ukulele to a Bon Jovi tune; discovered multiple uses in a dorm room for duct tape; lost at pool while "playing" with a bedraggled set of pool balls (including but not limited to two fives, two elevens, three nines, one cue, and no cue ball); and met people from all corners of the US, including Hawaii, plus a guy from Ghana. We also took a Calculus diagnostic test today, soon to be followed by Physics and Chem tomorrow. Joy Unbounded, indeed. I just got back from taking the T train to Hahvahd Sqaire, as they say in Bostonian. I learned that Harvard is a big, scary, brick-laden place with much bigger bookstores and much fancier T-shirts and *cough* polos than MIT. AND SO IT SHOULD BE.
So, I'm looking to look over some Physics equations, exercise a bit on those cool little bikes that go nowhere, and go sleep. Hope everything's much saner than things are up here! According to our infallible friend The Internet, weather's nice at home! Look out for thunderstorms this weekend, though... Just letting you know...
Take care, and check back soon!
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