CTY DAY 2

Ok, I’m back, and I’m blogging my heart out. To prove it, I made this entire post through my PDA. That’s right, shitty cell phone pics and everything. I am currently bound to my PDA, since my room here at Princeton does not currently have the internet. I feel like half a man.

I was planning on making this post yesterday, but T-Mobile wont allow a PDA to view on line photo albums, so I was stuck with no way to access the pics. And, since I had been up for about 50 hours at that point, I didn’t have the heart to make a half-assed pictureless post. But today is the day, my friend, today is the day. I just realized that I can beam a picture from my cell to my pda via infrared. I made this discovery today, and it is one of the most exciting discoveries I have made in my adult life.

So this is Princeton:www.http://fractionalactorssub.madeofrobots.com/blog/pics/prince.jpg

At least, its one of the buildings here. Lots of fancy architecture. Lots of stairs. Lots of other summer camps running around at the moment, including an small army of sports camp kids I have to share a dorm cafeteria with, and this fun little group:

This weekend is instructor orientation and training. Our students don’t arrive until Sunday afternoon, and I begin teaching on Monday. I’ve seen the room I’m teaching in, and it is rather impressive. Wood paneled walls, padded seats, the works. I didn’t take pictures (I hadn’t made my breakthrough discovery), and I can’t get back into the room until Monday, but I’ll show you soon enough. My TA Neal shares a lot of my interests, which means the students will be getting a summer’s worth of unshaven nerds talkin bout robots. Hopefully this goes over well.

Neal is the guy on the right. The guy in the foreground, and the one in the green shirt, are also TAs. Why am I hanging out with TAs, you ask? And, you add, that doesn’t look like Princeton! What’s going on here?!?! Well, after signing in on Thursday and eating dinner, I was looking for a group of people to go out for a drink. I found these guys. Where’d they take me? That’s right:

And then I came back here and unpacked my stuff, including all the junk food Harmony gave me.

Since I’ve never lived in a dorm myself, I should ask: is it ok to eat pudding cups that aren’t refrigerated?

Speaking of my dorm room, there’s one more thing that’s photo-worthy. The room itself is rather comfortable and air conditioned (thank god. The student’s dorm does not have air conditioning, and is pretty much unbearable, even at night). But look at the bed:

For comparison, that’s a 1 Liter bottle of water by the bed post. The bed literally has like 3 feet of clearance off the ground. I don’t know if that’s normal, but I know this much: that’s where monsters sleep, and more room just means bigger monsters.