I spent a pretty productive workday here in Sherborn at my folks house.. Like any day. I had back to back phonecalls all day.. and my parents let me work.. in fact they brought me food and tea all day.. not bad !

I lef tthere house just before 5 bound for Cambridge. I got there wwth saome time to spare.. so I visied some of my old haunts.. Here’s  my old dorm suite.. the one with the window open.

 

Ahh good old bexeley hall.. so many good memories.

no one was there, I  left a samstone as a calling card..

 

around 6 it was time to meet the students at 77 mass ave.. actually I was a few min early, so I decided t go up and visit a few folks.

 

before i did I had to admire a new piece of sculpture..

and here’s the chapel I was (worngly) accused of wiretapping..

 

and the infinite corridor !!!  (the sun supposedly sets down the corridor twice a year)

I found my way up to Doc Edgerton’s lab.. Doc is gone, but his cool maker sensibility lives on his lag..

Here’s a picture which Doc took in the mid 70’s  .Some say the figure is Nessie .. it’s a picture Doc took with sidescan sonor . Doc never claimed it was Nessie..

looks pretty convincing to me ! but.. it’s pretty interesting.no (Tim.. I apologize I said Champ when I first wrote this.. but that was at 3 AM 🙂

everything’s geekeier here at MIT.. even the hand wash signs in the bathrooms !

after a nice dinner with 6 of my student handlers, I was ready to give my talk.. 77 high school senior age folks in the audience.  40 from the US.. the remainder from 11 countries.  These are very smart and very fun kids..

The talk wet well at the beginning .then .. lagged a bit in the middle, then finsihed well. I wish I’d brought more toys.. next time I will.. i redeemed myself slightly at the end.. when I ran to the Coop store in the student center and jury rigged a glowing pickle for later in the evening.

 

I got pleasantly mobbed after the talk, so I got to talk to a bunch of the students.. I loved that.. Here’s Kate the co-director of the program..

The students wewre all so poised and driven.it was a real pleasure talking to them and hanging out with them.. we took many more pictures than this.. here’s a representative sample/.

It was also their ‘country night’. I stayed until midnight watching them tell stories about their home countries . Some even sang and danced. It was awesome !

 

They even danced the macarens..

 

 

After the event we all went to the kids dorm and had an international dinner of national foods.. yum !!

ok.. I keep falling aslseep.. gotta end here.. not sure I’m making sense (it’s 2:43 am)

-nite all, nite sam.

-me