Facebook Statuses: MIT vs. CAM

[Cambridge Facebook statuses]

i wish more than anything that the coffee shop delivered to our rooms, i cant move...and am still in yesterday's clothes -ST

sign of a ridiculous hangover: light of laptop screen hurts to look at. oouuuch. -LB

doesn't remember anything after the port -JDF

I wish we had guitar hero in the library. -NH

You know Monday night was bad when you have a hangover Wednesday morning -PW

is too drunk to go to a supervision

is practising using his gown

really can't be bothered to go to his supervision

The hardest part of Cambridge is having to put on cufflinks every week

Plan for tonight; Formal, back up to room for a homemade southend special, cocktails at the union then on to Emma (wednesday)

is an exhausted, hungover mess, but SO excited about tonight! [another formal] -JDF

is well chuffed with the discovery of her wonderful array of drunken facial expressions -HB

loves the fact that she got wrecked last night but still made it to lectures and labs, while her mother drank a few too many bacardis with her mate and, as a result, is wagging work.

5:46am. Did Tiananmen make the Chinese intellectual community more independent and vocal? Joseph Fewsmith says 'no', Xu Youyu says 'yes'. -JDF

Entered the library at 7.30pm... it's now 5.30am and I've nearly finished the introduction. I'm the Usain Bolt of essay writing. -KK

Working from bed with mint tea and Yemen books. Lovely. -LL

post-ball motivation fail.

To remove the HAMMER & SICKLE FLAG or not. This is the subject of tonight's controversial OPEN MEETING. Come speak at 6pm tonight!

rihanna.rwanda.coffee.

music, food, alcohol and friends - it's like the fun of a nightclub but in the warmth and comfort of King's library :) -MM

is an exhausted, hungover mess, but SO excited about tonight!

£5... 13 glasses of wine... can't be bad.

has been in the library for nearly 4 hours, and is only just starting her work.. -NH

[MIT Facebook statuses]

I just downloaded 3 gb in 3 minutes on the MIT network :) -JL

gallons of coffee and 12+ hours of various labwork to do? must be friday! -SF

So, maybe my grad student and I get a little overexcited about dorky things. but in our defense, that interface, and those grain boundaries, were absolutely gorgeous. mmm.

3 exams and 4 psets in one week? Really? -SW

haha! The dude that invented the happy meal and the cabbage patch doll (as well as pop rocks) wants to talk to me about Electroplushies. Hilarious! -MS

downloading at 5 Mb/s via wi-fi. Mmmmmmm.

wants better a better metadata UI than _KB.txt files. -KH

got into 24.900 and CMS.100 and has a UROP in CVCL! Which means that he'll be dropping 4.351

feels surprisingly prepared for doomsday tomorrow. Bring it on. -VH

bounce like ya got hydraulics in yo' g-string? hahahaha. -MYL

just found out that laundry view only works for the building you're actually in... I was trying to see if anyone was doing laundry in BC right now. -KB

excerpt from the BEST DESK CALL EVER guy: Can you connect me to the science department? me: This is a dorm, I don't really know how to do that. MIT has multiple science departments, so you'd need to call the main number and be more specific. guy: I was calling to settle a bet between me and my stepdaughter. We wanted to know if the moon is a planet or not. -EJ

is trapped in an infinite potential well. (it's like The Ring, but with more sine functions.) -SF

Op-amps are my new favorite circuit element... especially when they look like little insects. (They even look adorable in circuit diagrams.)

I've finally reached the point where it takes me much longer to format something in Word than it does when I just use Latex. Another questionable MIT milestone.

Dear fluids class - you have made me confuse upper case gamma with the capital letter F. Now the notes from all of my classes are super hard to decipher. -VH

all I want for Christmas is a stream function.

will have time for basic human needs at the end of the week.

is a sine wave for Purim! -DB

spent 3 hours figuring out android virtual machines instead of doing computation theory work. well, at least now today's refactoring nightmare is resolved....

TGIW ...

Thank God It's Wednesday ...


I have found the perfect image to describe the lifestyle of King's College.

Might I say this must have been tailored specifically for Cambridge University kids who have formals on Wednesday nights.

Christmas Formals

Cambridge got into the Christmas spirit during its last week, even though term ended Dec. 4 (yeah. ridiculous.) ... so, formals left and right with holiday themes.

= GLORIOUS


Besides our very own Christmas bash, King's and iCUSU (International Cambridge University Student Union) had Christmas formals during the last week of term.

12/1/09 - iCUSU Christmas Formal at Churchill College


[King's contingency]


[Churchill hall]


[apple tart dessert]


[Alexa, me, Elian]


[Ola, Oscar, Victoria]


12/2/09 - King's College Disney-Themed SUPERFORMAL


[pre-formal, milling around in bar, ready to invade hall]


[extravagant King's hall decorated for Christmas]


[place settings, complete with Disney menu, cracker/party favor, mistletoe, and other holiday decorations]


[ladies in costume]


[meatiest meat dinner ever.]


[King's Choir boys perform Christmas carols during formal]


[... then Santa Claus came and visited each table with gifts!]


[happy children with gifts from Santa]


[King's bar, post-formal festivities]


[Halliki, me, Siyao, Nadia]


[Shayan and a very Nina-looking Santa bust out karaoke moves]


[post Christmas Superformal - King's bar - standard.]


Epic epic epic formal. Amazing job done by Sho and ents staff!

Happy Holidays [Christmas Party 2009]

What with Christmas being 1 month away, and term being 1 week from over, a CHRISTMAS BASH was in order.

Yes, I know it was almost a month early.
Yes, I know it was the Friday night sandwiched between Thanksgiving and our CME Thanksgiving potluck.
Yes, I know we went all out with Christmas music, tinsel, holiday finger paintings, and gold/green/red/silver ribbons.


And YES, it was AMAZING.

[11/27/09]

Food:
- Mince pies
- Mulled wine
- German stollen (authentic!)
- English "Christmas cake"
- Cadbury's chocolate fingers
- Shortbread cookies
- Bailey's/hot chocolate/marshmallows
- miscellaneous snackfood

Music:
- Walking in a Winter Wonderland
- Sleigh Ride
- Let it Snow
- the entirety of Andy Williams' Christmas collection
- all of Josh Groban's Noel
- etc.

Artwork (finger paintings courtesy of Nina, Alexa, and Ellie):
- Santa going down chimney
- reindeer with boobs (refer to fig. 2)
- assorted presents
- gold star
- Christmas tree
- questionable-shape-turned-stocking
- gold/red/green/silver ribbons
- red/green/silver tinsel



[fig. 1 Alexa, Ellie, Nina - decorating for CHRISTMAS BASH]


[fig. 2 Reindeer With Boobs, painting credit: Alexa]


[fig. 3 Holiday festivities in swing]


[fig. 4 Christmas food]


[fig. 5 holidayyys]


[fig. 6 chicas]


[fig. 7 guys singing OPERA?!]


[fig. 8 christmas bash]


[fig. 9 people who love Christmas ... and food]


[fig. 10 aftermath/cleaned up]



HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Thanksgiving Superformal

King's College Thanksgiving Superformal 11/25/09

1920s Jazz & Blues New Orleans theme


[1920s extravagance.]


[MIT crew at King's]


[laughs all around. sophisticated laughs, o' course.]


[Black Tie superformal for men]


[16-piece live jazz band playing in King's bar for post-formal ents, while all the uni kids dance around wearing tuxedos/dresses and sipping wine. I mean, that's what you'd expect ... right?]


[Fig 1. example of quintessential Cambridge]


[Post-formal entertainment in King's bar]


[The gang, all jazz-ed up!]

King's Toga Party

The weekend following the Communist Party, King's bar had a Toga party to celebrate the imminent opening of a Kingsman's play "When In Rome" ...

An unsurprisingly large number of people own white bedsheets and went to the effort of haphazardly (in some cases, quite intricately and impressively) wrapping themselves in them before coming down to the bar.

Good times.



[King's Toga Party - bar, cleared area for dancefloor]


[Louisa, Juan]


[Nadia inherited a sheet and I found one abandoned on the ground = Greek for the rest of the night.]


[Greeks at heart]


[hahahahahha]


[King's Bar = dancefloor with live DJ]


[aftermath, or what it must have seemed like to any townspeople still awake: people running around Cambridge streets in the middle of the night, chasing each other while wrapped in large white sheets. wtf?]

King's Communist Party

11/07 Saturday night ... college party!

Basically last Saturday, Shayne, our bartender (all the colleges here have their own college bars), threw his pet project - the King's Communist Party.

Maybe because we're all communists at heart at King's ... or maybe simply because Shayne had an outfit that looks pretty commie. Either way, it entailed 8pm-midnight live DJ, dance floor, lots of drinks, costumes, face paint, and entertainment galore. A BLAST. Loved it. I'll let the pictures do the talking.



[Went over to Jade's before the party and we went to town with the face paint. Flipped my only red tee inside out, cut out/painted/taped the hammer/sickle, and then spent 10 mins in front of the mirror ... communist ready.]


[Workers unite.]


[Capitalist pig (with money where his handkerchief should be ...) and his "bourgeois" wife.]


[authentic posters! what!]


[Alice and me]


[ran into a couple of guerrilla fighters from Cuba ...]


[Shayan, me, Juan]


[armed and ready for attack! Alexia and Juan.]


[red-tee yellow-paper buddies.]


[guest appearance by Che.]


[reppin' the Commie gear.]


[King's College bar --> dancefloor]


[haha. such a picture you would see on a club publicity site or something. the lighting, sloppiness, laughs, "whaaa?"-ness, everything.]


[Everyone still on their feet ... Roman, me, Nadia, Jon, Peter, Anna.]


[Shayne, King's bartender aka brains behind the party.]