And Some More Updates Without A Clever Title For The Post; Why Can't I Ever Come Up With A Halfway Decent Title?

Captain's blog, stardate 8979.3...
The past few days haven't been super eventful, because Fun Activities at Random Hall, (aka Residence Exploration activities--they are supposed to help you meet people at various dorms and choose the right one, except Random had all the best activities because they are awesome) have ended.
Still, there's probably enough for me to scrape together a post and let all you guys know how I'm doing.
I still haven't starved to death; it helps that my dorm's dining hall was open a couple days this week and *gasp* they serve meat! And vegetables! And fruit salad! And dishes containing more than two ingredients! In short, things way better than anything I can cook! There was corn and broccoli and IT WAS AWESOME.
Anyway, moving right along. I took my 18.02 (multivariate calculus) and 18.06 (linear algebra) placement exams a while back. I didn't study, so I had to make up the formulas for surface integrals and the Gram-Schmidt orthonormalization formula, so when you learn those be comforted by the fact that I can't remember them for more than two seconds at a time.
Somehow I passed anyway, so I'm taking differential equations, which I've been hoping to learn for a long time. When I was eleven, I had a little book with stuff to fill out (just for fun), like what my favorite color was, what I did with my friends, etc. One of the questions was "If you had one wish, what would it be?" and I put "That I would learn differential equations". No world peace, no cure for cancer, just differential equations. Goes to show that I was pretty selfish at eleven, not to mention ridiculously nerdy. I also put down that my favorite video was "Calculus lectures" and my favorite song was "Freight Train Gets Lorentz-Contracted", which I had made up the words to. Told you I was self-centered back then. (By the way, if you'd like to know how that song goes I'll give you the lyrics).
Anyway, I digress. What else happened...ooh! We registered for classes! Besides differential equations, I'm taking 8.02 (second-semester physics--somehow getting a 5 on both the Mechanics and Electricity/Magnetism AP Physics exams gets you placement out of...mechanics! You still have to take E&M! If you don't pass both, you have to take mechanics! I do not understand this at all, but I don't really mind since I forgot everything about E&M anyway.) Also I'm taking intro biology (it's a requirement to graduate, so I figured I should just get it out of the way) and, for my humanities class, Shakespeare. Freshmen here are only allowed to take four classes so we don't overwhelm our poor little brains. Oh, we're also allowed to take physical education, so I'm doing a beginner's swim class since I'm relatively incapable of swimming and you have to either take a swim class or pass the swim test to graduate.
Well, that's about all the exciting news I have to report for the moment.
Oh wait! Make sure you read my "About Me" blurb, cause I changed it a few days ago!
Quirk out!