So, this is a short and relatively uninteresting story, but it made me pretty happy. My server got in today (we had it shipped in hopes that it would make it in one piece—it did, fortunately), but I had to reconfigure it for the MIT network, and I didn’t have a monitor. So one of the guys on my floor takes me down to the lobby and into what was once a photography lab, and there are 3 or 4 different monitors sitting in there that nobody wants. So I grabbed one and carried it back up to my room. I didn’t even have to leave the dorm.

So I have a monitor now, network configuration was easy, and I have a server too. Which means that my spam filtering works again. Trust me—this is good.

And now, for a brief summary of today:

Since yesterday was fission day, today was fusion day. Fusion is apparently believed by many to be possible, and MIT has an entire center that studies it. However, there are still several problems, and most of our mentors are fission people, so the kind of laugh at the fusion people.

After that we went to Salem, where we saw this terrible presentation on the witch trials. It was kind of funny because it was just so bad. Then we were given a few hours to wonder around Salem. However, none of us knew what we could do, and none of us wanted to spend money, so we spent a long time sitting by a cemetery talking about different stuff like classes and dorms.

Tomorrow (well, today now) is officially the start of REX, or Residence Exploration, or dorm rush. For the uninitiated, rush is the period where dorms try to convince you to leave your temp housing and move to their dorm. This means free food for the next 5 days.

But in the mean time, I should get to sleep, since I still have to wake up in 5 and a half hours.

Good night.

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