Shoot, I should probably post something…right?
Uh, clocking in at only one day late, is my announcement that Caltech’s Ditch Day was yesterday!
Quoting my explanation of ditch day to a friend:
According to wikipedia: “On Ditch Day the seniors ditch school, leaving behind elaborately designed tasks and traps at the doors of their rooms to prevent underclassmen from
entering. Over the years this has evolved to the point where many seniors spend months designing mechanical, electrical, and software obstacles to confound the underclassmen. Each group of seniors designs a “stack” to be solved by a handful of underclassmen. The faculty have been drawn into the event as well, and cancel all classes on Ditch Day so the underclassmen can participate in what has become a highlight of the academic year. This year, Ditch Day falls on May 16, 2007.”So I didn’t have any classes today! That was great! Unfortunately, the ’stack’ that I participated to solve wasn’t well designed, and it ended up mostly being “walk around campus to find things stack”. Some of the other stacks were much better designed with more interesting and cool puzzles to solve. Years ago at Caltech, the stacks were even more elaborate with people having to open locks, break down walls, use science knowledge to solve things…
Yeah, I’ve been busy…
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You make a blog post in which you quote an explanation to a friend, in which you quote Wikipedia.
How about your own words for a change?
Lol! Darn, you figured out my trick for padding blog posts. Heh, I’ll try to use my own words for my next post.
Right, for your next post sometime next year… laaaaaame!
Aw, come on, I have to be in the right mood with no work to write blog posts :). There’s just too many things I have to take care of first before writing…
Post about your work. Procrastination is the key to success, obviously.