School has started up again. IAP was fun, but a ton of work. 6.270 took a lot of time - most was spent trying to find workarounds to code which should work as written - while something else messes things up. We had experiences where commenting something out of the code would make something work, then after uncommenting the same thing it would continue to work. Also, adding random prints to the code would make it work. We followed coding guidelines for multithreading, but still something was mutating a variables and inconsistently screwing up. I can't find my camera cord now, so here are some photos taken by Eddie:

We went hiking in the New Hampshire the weekend before last while staying at the MIT cabin. We hiked to Mt. Moosilauke (4802 ft.) It was great. We started by hiking up a long series of waterfalls then hiked through the mud, followed by snow, then moonscape as we came out of the tree-line for the last .4 mile.

A Quiznos opened up right down the street and we were the first in line on opening day. About half of us had stayed up the whole night doing p-sets it wasn't a problem to be there at 9 in the morning. The first 100 people in got a free sub a month for a year!

For East Campus Rush Nick and I decided to make a Giant Swing:












Here are a couple videos: 1 - 2
Housing and Safety Office Approved!

Other EC Rush projects included a waterslide, hampster wheel, spinning/tumbling ride of death, and a lazy river swamp.

Tim and Radu invited me sailing through the Harbor Islands with Gwyn from Merlin Bikes and Elen, a student from France.

Dad, Robert, Wallace, Scott, Lindsey and I went Rafting on the American from Chili Bar on the South Fork of the American. Wallace took the photos.

So, the biking trip is over now - we made it approx 800 miles from Portland, OR to the Great Divide in Montana. The rest would have been downhill....hardly worth it. Anyway, I'll post the last days on the biking page and a more accurate reason of why we stopped soon, but for the meantime, I posted a photo-album with all of the pictures HERE!

I'm biking accross the country - we are updating this page about our trip as often as we can.