The Pope and I have had a strong bond this week, as both of us were hospitalized due to the flu. Except, I have the flu and mono. I've had a temperature of over a hundred for over a week now and have been staying at the hospital (MIT Medical) since Friday. The day nurses have forgotten to refill the IV on time or give me my pills on time a few times and that frustrates me, so I keep pushing my little buzzer. The doctor is quite nice and one of the night nurses is great. This episode added with the cold which I had a couple of weeks ago and rounds out a health-tastic January!

MIT MEDICAL IS OFFICIALLY THE WORST RUN ORGANIZATION I HAVE EVER COME IN CONTACT WITH. Not to be confused with the doctors, which are great. The MIT Medical administration Sucks!

So, I've started to move stuff over to this site: http://web.mit.edu/bavetta/www/ It will hopefully be easier to update and add photos. I will make this page forward to that page pretty soon, as soon as I get the other page polished up some.

Arrrg! Rush is over and school has started. As a dorm, we did so much stuff for rush; built a roller coaster, 3-axis trainer, colosseum, tour guide cage, giant whack a mole, spinning seesaw, giant twister, huge hanging Jacob's ladder (double hinged toy - not electric toy), b a h4xor povec led solder kits which say 'east campus', 160lb concrete ECs throughout campus as 'art', motorized sofa, giant operation board game, giant hamster wheel, a chariot, 12' tall monkey bars, and a rock climbing wall with a slide on the other end. Pictures GALORE

There were a couple of articles about the raft project that I was a part of, here is one: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/raft.html

Today we took President Chuck Vest out on it at nearly the crack of dawn and sailed around for a bit.

I've been continually cleaning my room, but somehow it gets more and more disorganized - ah!

Kabir finished the 3-axis trainer, and it's sweet - still deadly though, so we'll still have to fix a few things

Helicopters and policemen - that pretty much sums up Boston right now. LOTS of helicopters - big helicopters - small helicopters - loud helicopters. Continuous vigilance for the DNC. I finally finished the speakers from the IAP speaker-building class - they sound great and I'm happy. I'm sick now though, so that sucks. I built this big rectangular box in the back of my room about 4 feet square and 7 feet tall with plywood and 2x4s, and I don't know why I made it, maybe I'll make it part of a loft.

PICTURES!
So, I've been working this summer at the common sense group at the media lab (the people who run openmind) programing a visualization in Flash for some of the links which they have come up with. When I'm done with this I'll totally be able to make flash games - ya!

Some other stuff I've been up to:

Learning how to:
kiteboard
play squash

Building:
an eccentric (out of true) wheel (to power a scooter by jumping up and down)
a raft - for the 4th - it was fun:



it sank:




Oh ya, and I drove across the country a month ago

I'm back home now - here are some pictures from last term. In a couple of weeks I'll drive back to Boston with my dad who will bike down the Atlantic coast, then drive back when summer is done with Ankur Vikash and Smark - only to drive back once again in Smark's car. I went and visited my high school today and talked to a bunch of kids and teachers - Coleman says Toocomm needs to buy an electric winch - I think that's a good idea.