I discovered 2 new cool places at MIT in the last 2 days - the MIT hobby shop and the Kresge auditorium.
I spent some time at the MIT hobby shop with Matt and Dave to finish up
the final prototype for our Product Design & Development (PDD)
class. Both Matt and I decided to forgo our usual social and drinking
activity at the Muddy Charles and finished fabricating the remaining
pieces for our prototype. The next task on tap is the painting of the
beast, which Spiros and Christian will do later this weekend. I hope
that they add some serious "blink" to the beast to raise its cool
factor up for next week's final presentation. So far, everyone in the
team took initiative and volunteered for the work assignments.
Thankfully, our team has not encountered the same team rants and horror
stories that I heard from other teams. Anyway, enough discourse on team
dynamics and PDD. The hobby shop is well equipped with woodwork and
metalwork equipment, and has staff that readily provides advice and
help to students. I totally felt like a geek hacking away with the saw
and drill in the hobby shop today. But you can't spell MIT without the
words, "hack" and "geek".
I went to the MIT Wind Ensemble
concert in the Kresge auditorium with Eimear later that evening. The
concert was fun and it was like going to a typical school or college
sports event or art performance. I even thought that I have seen a few
of the performers at the Z-center or along the Infinite Corridor
before. The first repertoire was a little rough but the performers
settled down and gave a fairly good performance the rest of the
concert.