My Apartment

New semester, new apartment. It's becoming a theme as of recently. Anyways, I found a great sublease of a room in a condo owned by an MIT Sloan alum. It's a few blocks from where I lived last year, thus I'm very familiar with the area. It's a typical Boston "house"... a 3 story building with an apartment on each floor. I'm living on the first floor of this building.

As you can see, every house on the street looks pretty much the same, except for the color. These are very old houses as indicated by the stone foundation found in the somewhat creepy basement.

I have a HUGE bedroom, a nice kitchen, free laundry, and a free parking space (this is huge!). But as you can see, there is barely room between the buildings for a car. We'll just say it's been fun trying to find a place to put the shoveled snow this season.

Valentine's Day

Have you ever been "that girl" or "that guy" in class (or maybe at work). I'm talking about the one who receives the overly-public yet secret display of affection. Well, let's put it this way, while it may be very embarrassing, it can be particularly entertaining for those around you at the time of reception. My experience added a level of appreciation as class was delayed a few minutes and it was fun to see the professor try to regain his train of thought.

I was lucky enough to have my camera handy when this "Valentine's Day Sing-a-Gram" busted into my Environment, Materials, and Manufacturing class. I want to thank you, whoever gave Jenny on the left side of the room in the 3rd row of my class for sending this our way.

For an engineering school, those guys can sing!

Winter C Function

The first C-Function of the semester was appropriately Winter themed. I was impressed with the ice sculptures commissioned for this event.

Does this look familiar?

Snow Street Parking

There is an unspoken rule in Boston regarding shoveling a street parking spot - if you shovel the spot, it is yours. These claimed spots are typically marked by a folding chair, cone, or recycling bin.

Basically, when you shovel your car out from 24inch of snow to drive to work, you leave a marker in your spot indicating that the spot is yours. No one takes it! Quite an honor system! I first learned about this from my brother who lived in Boston for 4 years before I came to the area. As I was walking around I noticed a bunch of chairs sitting on piles of snow next to parked cars and remember that these are used to mark the spot when the car leaves.

For those visiting during the snowy season... don't park in these spots!!!