You know my name

You know my name DID YOU KNOW? Blake Ross, who is kind of the inventor of Firefox, is 21 years old. Well, its been a while. According to MT I started writing this entry one week ago today. A lot has been up. I designed a microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruths room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg was delayed for three hours. Sams Mom has a broken refrigerator. My hard drive crashed. Im a Mac user now. I need to find a way to acquire some score-writing software within the next three days. I took TBP members to Casino Royale (awesome!) and Body Worlds 2 (barf!). I dropped 6.003. I ate a lot of stuffing today. But most importantly, like two weeks ago Justin Kim wrote: I did this program for a class Im taking called Non-linear dynamics which deals a lot with chaos/fractal patterns and showing them through code vb + java. Are there similar programs at MIT that one could take? Well Justin, looking at the course catalog (updated for fall 2007! pfffft!), we offer at least math 10 classes in nonlinear dynamics, not counting other ones that might be in other courses (fluid mechanics or string theory, for example). Two of these classes, 18.353J Nonlinear Dynamics: Chaos and 18.354J Nonlinear Dynamics: Continuum Systems even have the words Nonlinear Dynamics in the title! These are undergrad classes and youll most likely have the prereqs for them by your first term sophomore year. A lot of the other nonlinear dynamics courses are grad classes, but its perfectly fine for undergrads to take grad classes. Hey, Mollie did it! In fact, the line between grad and undergrad classes is particularly blurred in the math department, where you often dont need tons of background and experience to take a class. As long as you can hang with the problem sets, youre alright. I feel 12% better about myself having answered that question. So more updates about my life in general and MIT life in general a bit later this long, wonderful weekend. I wish I could more be like Blake Ross.