Family weekend, Head of the Charles, Classes, oh my

Family weekend was two weeks ago - my mom came up from Florida for about thirty six hours. We hung out in Boston, campus, and Harvard Square. Saturday night we went to Harvard Square for dinner and couldn't find anywhere to eat - it was Harvard's family weekend too - and wound up wandering around until we hit a restaurant with empty tables. It was Upstairs on the Square, a posh eatery. We went up four flights of stairs before seeing a dining room or table. I got a delicious steak and my mom ordered the duck. After dinner, we caught the last three acts of an MIT a cappella concert. Everyone was amazing but the best part was the last song: "Up B," a parody of C-Lo's "Fuck You," written about Super Smash Bros. The video is not of the MIT a cappella group but the song is the same.

 

This was absolutely hysterical because the two parts of the joke - the original song and the content from Super Smash Bros - were both completely foreign to her. So not only was I laughing at the song, but I got to see her completely stunned reaction. Totally funny.

The next weekend was the Head of the Charles Regatta, the biggest regatta in the country if not the world. It wasn't that big of an event on campus; unless they were a rower or knew rowers, no one was particularly interested. Although I didn't get to row in it this year, I went and cheered on the team and hung out with the other guys who weren't in the boat.

This last weekend was Halloween - Friday night and all day on Monday I was dressed as a ninja.

There were surprisingly few other students dressed up for the holiday, but I did walk to my writing class with Wonderwomen. Otherwise, I saw the pink panther, several video game characters, and a viking or two. Saturday night I was a frat guy

Pictured here with Minnie Mouse and a zombie

and walked around Boston with some friends trying to get into the Halloween parties. It was the first real snow of the year, it was very cold in Sperrys and khaki shorts!

Unfortunately life at MIT isn't all weekends and rowing, I've been busy with schoolwork and the second round of midterms. We literally did rocket science last week in physics and I understood it on the pset. Either some things are actually harder than rocket science or I've got a very nice seven semesters lined up. I survived my bio midterm and am happy to report that I'm passing all my first semester classes.