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I wouldn't be surprised if the players from MIT were nothing special*, actually. I know someone who goes there, and have met some of his friends. They all have brilliant minds, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are good at micromanagement.

*And I'm talking relative to the rest of the competition. I'm sure any player there, regardless of where they go to school, is WELL beyond my own skill level.

And this is totally off-topic, but this reminded me of it. The friend in question also applied to CalTech, where he really wanted to go (MIT has an awesome math department, but they are more focused on the sciences where CalTech is more math-y). His mother wouldn't let him, because it was too far away.

That made me go. :/

A. He's going to school in Cambridge (across the river from Boston, MA), which is 6 hours away from our town as it is. That's far enough that he pretty much never comes home, except for breaks and such (and he spends a lot of the time there even then, because he has work).

B. A plane ride from CA to NJ is 6 hours. Since he almost NEVER comes home, it's realistically the same.

C. If your son is offered a place at one of the best schools in the world, you let him go. It isn't like he wanted to go to Oxford--I get why you wouldn't want him in another country. But this is in the states. Granted, he's STILL at one of the best schools in the world, but why make him downgrade when he got into the one better for his specialty?

Omg, this x9999999.

Though, on the other hand, forgetting to call your mother for too long leads to issues. >_<

Æth,... principally. Except made of electronic paper of sorts. The electronic paper is actually the key.

idiggory, I know people from MIT are not by default better than others, especially since we're likely to just put together a Southeast Scotland team or something, and the Southeast of Scotland is actually as a whole quite a good place to study for this sort of area of research. Building clusters is just generally something that I've wanted to do because of so many awesome stuff it ties into. Well; the deadline for this year is gone (and I'm not in Scotland yet, anyway), and next year is next year.

Energy efficiency, portability, the sheer beauty of how Mirasol works, and also that it's the only way to implement the other project we're working on in the next 5 years, so getting familiar with the technology is important.

Mostly it's just that most touchscreen devices are unnecessarily energy inefficient and clonky.

Im in england, yay!
Hey, Kali, as soon as I can, gonna call you to meet up tomorrow. I think I already had some boozes here.
Flying Dutch and some Laggers.
Hmm, need more.

Watch the movie NOW, Maz!

Ha, I had an interesting occurence today with someone who frequents this thread and some rather NSFW furry art. I didn't link it! It was funny, though.

And I am unsure what I am still doing awake.

It wasn't me.

I'm thinking it was Brisin. He's allegedly in London now.

Got to ask. Aethien, do you like A Perfect Circle?

Edited, Apr 18th 2011 12:37pm by smunks

The vocalist of A Perfect Circle is also the vocalist of Tool, that's probably why.
Can't say anything about Tool's videos, have never watched them, just listened to the music.

Edited, Apr 18th 2011 1:15pm by smunks

Haha yeah shame on me for not watching them.
I'll go have a look sometime soon.

Might as well come clean, it was me. Kali's furry friend linked me some furry pron on skype yesterday. 'twas weird.

Brisin: It's awesome that you like Irn Bru, I think it's the best drink on the planet, I'm just super pissed that it costs me $35 for 24 cans. I might start a "send Rio Irn Bru" fund.