I've been negligent posting on here, but I have a passable excuse: moving and settling in at Cambridge.  Jess and I drove 26 hours (not counting dog walks) to get up here, and let me tell you, that drive sucked.  I was driving the U-haul truck, so I've discovered a new respect for truckers. Driving something that big is nerve-racking. Anyway, we're all moved in and settled down now.  We've explored downtown Boston, visited the planetarium, and today we visited Walden Pond.  Yeah, that Walden Pond.  The transcendentalist one.  It was a big deal for me.  I read Walden when I was 18 and it had a profound influence on me.  I can't say that I've lived up to the ideals that Thoreau espoused, but at least I've got a role model I can believe in. Class Begins Thursday is the beginning of Orientation.  The class of 2015 consists of ~560 individuals who are divided into seven sections of 80.  I'm in section 1.  Every one of my classes will be with these 80 p