Visit weekend just finished up, and luckily for me, I was not organizing it this year, meaning I got to enjoy the free food and subsidized activities while letting someone else do all the actual work of getting the food and figuring out what would make 90 or so prospectives happy and want to come to MIT.  Plus, the weather cooperated with us this year - it was pretty much all sun while the prospectives were here.  On the flip side, I was also battling a sore throat all weekend, plus it started snowing again once all the prospectives left, but hey, I’ll take good weekend weather when I can get it.

Visit weekend also means this blog is about one year old, and eight posts over 12 month is not a bad record for me, seeing how my previous blog once stayed untouched for three years.  Also scarily (excitedly?), I am only 2-3 months away from completing my Masters.  I just dropped off my proposal, and my parents have already gotten tickets to fly in for commencement, so I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I finish in time.  I am at a good point in my research though, and barring something crazy happening, I should be walking across Killian Court in June.

Aside from MIT-related things, I have also moved (again).  This time though, I am fairly sure that I will be living at this new place for the next five or so years, so I can finally get some nice stuff - the first thing on the list was a large HDTV.  Unfortunately, cable is not setup yet, so the HD part is wasted at the moment, and I will have to find somewhere else to watch the last episodes of BSG, but at least the TV looks nice (when it is off).

Also, my (former) roommate turned 25 last week, which according to her, means she is now “old”.  Another friend suggested that after your 3rd year, you start becoming an nth year student, so I had better get a move-on since I am only one more year from all these turning points.