I’ve recently been involved in a relatively non-trivial undertaking known as Tech Theater. For those of you not hip to the jive, Tech Theater is a small production that is put on for the incoming freshmen during their Orientation that’s written and performed by current MIT students. Its purpose is to inform them about all the ways they can avoid drinking themselves to death, and all sorts of fun and family-friendly things of that nature. Somewhere between the free dinner at one meeting, and discussions about the implications of cricket death, we all decided that the introductory video for our little play should be shot and edited in the style of the Friends intro. We’re actually going to frolic in the moat. Frolic. In the moat. On camera. Overall, I’m pretty thoroughly amused by the whole venture, and also pretty excited about getting a chance to act completely ridiculous in front of most of the new freshman class. I need to start things off on the right foot, don’t I?

It’s both comforting and somewhat disconcerting (you resolve that contradiction, I’m lazy) that summer is almost over. It’s been a pretty unusual summer for me, as far as summers go; it’s been my first summer away from home, and also the first time that I’ve worked full-time for any real length of time. I’m going to miss having up to 40 hours a week to devote to improving Timegrid, but I think it will be refreshing to move on to spending my time on other things (like classes, and stuff). There’s also the idea of people that I know (!) and like (!!) actually living on the floor, which is exciting. Perhaps even more exciting is the idea of people I don’t know moving into Burton-Conner, i.e. the freshmen, that I can corrupt enlighten.