So, being bored a few nights ago,…

Well, not bored, but more avoiding certain things I didn’t want to do, I took photos for a brief photo tour of my suite/room. Of course, the prospect of photo editing tends to scare me away from doing any of it (I have tons of photos that need editing), so it took me an extra day to actually do anything with it. But, I finally got around to it, and fixed my iPhoto plugin to publish photos to Flickr, so you get a very brief tour of my suite in Burton-Conner.

Our suite is at the far end of one of the hallways on Conner 4. I say that hoping that it’s only enough information for MIT students to find me, and not anyone else, because they could find me anyway.

Anyway, right inside all Burton-Conner suites is a little lounge area. One of my suitemates actually managed to get a piano in here, although by what magic I know not.

Also in the common area is the kitchen, one of the coolest features of B-C. Generally the upperclassmen keep it stocked well, although I’m sure the freshmen will be pulled into the stocking process eventually.

(N.B.: The last photo and the next photo were both taken facing roughly the same direction. This one was taken facing the opposite direction. That may help to orient you within the photos, or it may serve to just confuse you more.)

The rooms are just past the lounge area. Mine is the first room on the right, the only double in my suite.

My room is also one of the “smallest” on the floor. It’s not that the actual square footage is less, but there’s this little foyer area that’s kind of off from the rest of the room and makes it all seem a little smaller. The foyer contains one of our two dressers.

The two desks and the other dresser. I will claim mine, here. It’s the one that’s covered in stuff. It’s not really too much stuff, but it’s the only area where I’ve unpacked at all. Since we might move again, I have a towel hanging up to dry on a hook in the dresser, and everything else is either in the suitcase or on my desk.

Our beds. I’m not going to say which one mine is. Maybe you can figure it out. Also note the shelving on the right wall, which is currently very inconvenient, so not sure what will happen there.

And finally, the view from our window. This was mostly taken to prove to my dad’s friend that we can, in fact, see Fenway Park from our dorm. You can see the lights in the top center of the photo.

So, that’s the tour. Brief summary of events…

The Discover Nuclear Science and Engineering program has been feeding us, starting with dinner on Tuesday night. It’s basically run by a bunch of grad students and a few upperclassmen. After a pretty dry lecture yesterday morning, we took a tour of MIT’s nuclear reactor. We did actually get to go into the containment building and everything, although we had to leave bags, cameras, and phones outside for security. It was pretty cool, although it’s not a big operation or anything - it only takes two people to run the reactor.

After that and lunch, we went to the Boston Museum of Science, where we saw the Body Worlds exhibit, which is the one with the plastinated bodies. It was kind of disturbing, actually, mostly because some of the bodies were as much art pieces as they were medical cadavers.

After that we wandered around the museum and saw a few of the other exhibits, and the lightning show. I have photos, but I need to touch almost all of them up first. It was a very good show, though.

There was an employee in the computer exhibit who was basically taking care of two Aibos that they had on display who turned out to be an MIT grad. She was Course VI, decided she didn’t like the cubicle work, and so now she works at the museum instead. I think I’m the only Course VIer at DNSE, so they laughed at me for that one. The lesson, I think, is to avoid cubicles at all cost.

Anyway, I have to go, because I’m hungry and B-C is starting orientation events with breakfast downstairs.

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