Sam M. '07 | December 22, 2006
"The Promise of Ending"
DID YOU KNOW? Female komodo dragons can apparently have immaculate conceptions. No, really.
So I was just sitting here this evening (don't you mean "this morning?") watching a biblical archaeology special on The History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom and Gomorrah when I decided to check my grades, like I do, you know, every 20 minutes. Because there might still be someone in the Student Services Office working really hard to get those grades in right now! Anyway, when I logged into WebSIS, I took special notice of a link that had been there for the past three years:
"Hmm." thought I. "I guess that's me." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 fine, so I figured there'd be no harm in doing it tonight. A few moments later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative purposes only:"
Three and a half years, 17 GIR's, 8 PE points, 50 sleepless nights, and 10,000 miles paid for by MISTI. Now all that's standing between me and an MIT diploma is ICE 2.
I remember lounging around my suite with a roommate named David and a sophomore named Katy about this time my Freshman year. "Wow guys," said Katy, "You're one-eighth of the way done with MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time ago because Katy moved in with her boyfriend two months later and we never saw her again (shame, because I think that to this day I owe her a raw chicken breast). But my heart, Anita, but my heart, FEELS like it was just yesterday. And now I've got one-eighth of the way left.
Man I'm old.
SUPER SORRY about the lack of blogging for the past month. I promise to write retroactive entries on everything that kept me too occupied to blog, including using 22 M formic acid to fuel you cell phone, a song written on an e e cummings poem, being called "ingenious" by a Pulitzer Prize-winner, going to Blue Man Group, and flirting with Ina Garten.
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That was like a blog fakeout Sam, I try to comment and all of a sudden the entry doesn't exist?
I like this one better though, it actually has a picture of the link. . .
I'm like -1/8 of my way through MIT, w00t! Looking forward to it!
Posted by: Snively on December 22, 2006 01:32 AM
Hmmmmm...who is Anita?
Posted by: Emma on December 22, 2006 09:32 AM
No one ever uses the term "immaculate conception" correctly.
Posted by: Not Mike on December 22, 2006 02:18 PM
Immaculate conception refers to Mary's conception without original sin. Parthenogenesis is a virgin birth.
=)
Posted by: Melissa '11 on December 22, 2006 02:37 PM
love the West Side Story reference- if thats what you were going for with the "but my heart..." line, if not, pretend this comment doesn't exist;)
Posted by: Anonymous on December 22, 2006 04:57 PM
love the West Side Story reference- if thats what you were going for with the "but my heart..." line, if not, pretend this comment doesn't exist;)
Posted by: Anonymous on December 22, 2006 04:57 PM
FOR MANY A YEAR WE'VE KNOWN THESE FIELDS
AND KNOWN ALL THE WORK THAT MAKES THEM YIELD
ARE YOU READY TO LEND A HAND?
WE'RE READY TO WORK, WE'RE READY TO LEND A HAND
BY WORKING TOGETHER, WE'LL BRING IN THE HARVEST
THE BLESSINGS OF HARVEST!
Gotta love the Copeland...:)
Posted by: Anonymous on December 23, 2006 11:20 AM
Degree application?! Thanks for reminding me!
I totally forgot to obsessively check my grades, too. 4/6 are in, and of course the two I'm least sure about aren't up yet, and surely, surely there's someone working in building 3 right now to get those put online. I'll check back tomorrow morning.
Posted by: Ruth '07 on December 23, 2006 10:35 PM
DON'T YOU MEAN YOU'LL SEE ME TODAY??!!!???!!!
Posted by: Nina on December 24, 2006 04:14 AM
which e e cummings's poem? i had to memorize "i carry my heart with you (i carry it in" for my poetry class.
Posted by: nghi on December 26, 2006 05:22 AM
I think the most amazing thing of all was the fact that potatoes can also have undergo parthenogenesis. I didn't even know there was a difference between male and female potatoes.
But I mean hey, if they can have eyes, why not?
I don't think I'll ever look at carb-loading the same way again... :)
Posted by: Tina '11 on December 26, 2006 04:41 PM
