The school is terrified of a scandal, I suppose, so before each ‘task’ the tough-guy senior students (Educational Committee: Edcom) inform us that all the frosh activities are completely optional.

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p>Which is good, cause I sure didn’t feel like staying up until past midnight watching a lousy Ben Stiller comedy. We had a ceremony to get our construction hats. The real engineering symbol is the ring, of course, but the hat is a status thing for now, I guess. And apparently other students may attempt to steal them at any time, so we were encouraged to wear running shoes about campus.

Irony is cruel. I left a house where I ’shared’ the internet computer with my siblings, and moved to a house where I share a single connection with the fellow in the next room. I went out today and bought a router for us, so the problem’s solved, but still. Pfft. And why is it that the router was $25 and the 50′ cable was just over $50? is there some excuse for this, or is it simply the nefarious means by which the company profits?

My computer isn’t entirely stable, although I’m fully up to date with Service Pack 2, and I downloaded the free AVG anti-virus. It took longer than twenty minutes to install it all, so I hope wasn’t compromised in the time interval. (I ran ad-aware just to be sure — seemed okay)

So yeah, Waterloo. I’m excited. Classes start Monday.

Mike

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