Look Ma, I'm a MIT Student!

Ok, so technically speaking not officially, but look how cool this is:

I found this resource online that provides all course material (lectures, notes, assignments, exams, etc.) for a HUGE number of MIT courses. Seeing as how I've needed something to occupy my idle hands, I've "enrolled" myself in three courses. 

I'm taking a course each in the fields that I received my degree in, Urban (Meyer) Planning, and Geology, as well as a course in the field which I am currently working, FOOD!

The courses are:

-Introduction to Transportation Systems

-Introduction to Fluid Motions, Sediment Transport, and Current-generated Sedimentary Structures (as seen above)

-Kitchen Chemistry

The only course that requires a textbook is the Kitchen Chemistry course, which is 'On Food and Cooking, the Science and Lore of the Kitchen' by Harold McGee. Well it just so happens that I already own that book, and it is one of my favorite food-related books (yay!).

I plan on submitting all of my coursework to the respective professors upon my completion of the classes, regardless of whether they will provide any feedback or not. I'm going to give myself the same timeline for the coursework as would be in a normal semester, starting right after we get moved into Brooklyn.

Seeing as how I didn't learn shit from FAU, I figured MIT would have a thing or two that it could teach me. I'll keep you updated on my progress! 

Gator Party #1

Ok for starters, I apologize for the naked woman behind us in this photo, that wasn't planned I swear.

So this is at the 'Gotham Gator Club's Season Kickoff Party' on Tuesday. From left to right is Katie, Jamie, Gavin (who are engaged), and myself. This was at a bar in the West Village called "Town Tavern", and it is one of 3 main bars in New York city that play every Gator game. The other two are "The Gin Mill" and "SideBar". I have a semi-boycott of SideBar however because I have only been there once, which was last year for the Ole Miss game (grrrr). So, even though I am going there for the first game of the season, I refuse to attend ANY big games at SideBar.

Aaaaanyways, the party was a blast, we hung out with our own kind and watched the Championship game from last season which was great! It was like we were watching it for the first time, complete with Gator chants and all!

I promise I'll be putting up blog material more frequently, I know I've been really bad about it lately, bye family!!!

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

OK, I'm sorry to post two Gator videos in a row. Actually wait, I'm not sorry at all, this one is so good. It truly is great to be a Florida Gator! You have to love this!

September 5th cannot get here soon enough!

If this doesn't get you pumped for football season, you're not a fan.

If you're not a Gator, you're GATOR BAIT!

Viva Baltimore!

Last weekend I made the decision that it was just time for me to get out of the city. As much as I would've liked to go to to Florida, or the Bahamas, or Fiji, that just wasn't in the budget. However a bus ticket did fit my budget. For $35 round-trip, I could go to Boston, Baltimore, D.C., or Atlantic City. Seeing as how my wonderful cousins Allison and McRae, along with my favorite little redheads Grace and Megan live in Baltimore, I figured that was a good choice.

I was even more excited to hear that on Saturday they were heading to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania to meet up with Aunt Sally, and my cousin Tracy along with her two boys Connor and Brian. I haven't seen Connor since he was a few months old in Ocean City, and I had yet to have the honor of meeting little Brian. We had a blast, the first photo is of myself and all the little ones in the first tree house we visited at the gardens (there were 3). One of the tree houses had a see-through honey-bee hive that had the kids mesmerized for a good 15 minutes. Here's a couple more pictures from the Gardens:

Brian trying to catch the jumping water jets in the kid's water area...



Connor and I in front of one of the orchid walls...


It was great to see everybody and I can't thank Allison, McRae, Grace, Megan, and Weezie enough for their hospitality. I also got a chance to go into Baltimore Saturday evening and have a great dinner with my old friend Meghan, who is in grad school and is working at the Kennedy Kreiger Institue helping children who have trouble eating. We went to a Tapas restaurant called Pazo upon Allison's recommendation and it was great.

I look forward to going back to Baltimore real soon!

This is Amazing...

This makes me want to leave NYC immediately and fly back to Florida, where I would (without hesitation) drive straight to the beach and jump in the ocean.

Just watch it.

Buy me one of these!...Now!

Are you kidding me?! I want a slow loris as a pet so damn bad...Look at that friggin thing!

And if you can't get me one of those, just buy me a red panda, equally as bad ass...