Facebook recently made it so when you click on a picture you see it in a lightbox. The idea is nice but the execution needs some work. If you would like to go back to seeing pictures normally on their own page follow these easy steps.
1) Click on any picture that you want to see.
2) In the address bar of your browser (where you type in the URLs of websites) go to the end of the current address and delete just the “&theater” part.
3) Hit enter and go back to seeing that picture normally.
My new website is mylifeishopkins.com (My Life Is Hopkins or MLIH). Its a website that allows students to post small anecdotes about life at Johns Hopkins University. I made the website during finals week when I should probably have been studying. The bulk of the work took 2 hours and I made a few tweaks over break. The site has grown really quickly and has gained over 200 members in the past 3 days!
Razer is having a giveaway because of all of their fans on facebook…
“One lucky fan will get to score the ultimate gaming suite powered by Razer – worth over US$500 – shipped right to your doorstep that will consist of Razer‘s suite of award winning gaming peripherals – A choice of your Professional Gaming Mouse, your ideal Professional Gaming Surface and Gaming Keyboard (just tell us which one you would like to have – it‘s yours), the Razer Megalodon 7.1 Gaming Audio Headset, Razer Armadillo2 Mouse Cable Management System, a Razer Attitude Tee, Razer Messenger Bag, Razer Gear Rack and a Razer l33t Pack.”
If you are interested in entering then go here.
So I’ve been at college for about 2 weeks now (3 if you count pre-orientation) and I’ve yet to blog about it, I figured that I’ll attempt to do so now.
Pre Orientation (August 20th until August 26th):
I did the multi-element pre-orientation trip. It was awesome, we went camping, backbacking, river rafting, and cannoning. I made so many friends on the trip. Two funny stories from the trip:
-On the first day of backpacking when we got to the campsite one of the leaders showed us the water pump and told us to fill our water bottles, she began to use the pump and then someone pointed out the sign that said non-potable water. We ended up using iodine in the water so we could drink it.
-Later that night we were given the option to either sleep in a ten that we had made using a tarp or to sleep in the permanent shelters that were at the campsite. Me and three other students chose to stay in the ten, we asked one of the leaders if we would be okay there at night. He said that we would be fine as long as it did not rain really, really hard. It rained really hard. All of our stuff got wet. (It was still lots and lots of fun)
Finally at Johns Hopkins (August 26th until now):
So from August 26th until August 30th we didn’t have any classes, instead we met people from various departments and learned more about the school. We also participated in some very fun Hopkins orientation traditions. My favorite of these was playfair.
On August 30th classes started. I was quite worried about the transition however once I got into class I realized that my high school (Milken Community High School) did a really good job of preparing me and that I would do fine. All of my professors are really nice and willing to help. My favorite classes are Robots in Science Fiction, Discrete Math, and Intermediate Programming.
The orientation activities continued throughout the week. I really liked first night (it takes place on the first night of classes, the upperclassmen welcome the freshmen) and the trip to the inner harbor/the national aquarium (which was only open for Hopkins students when we went).
Rosh Ha Shanah was cool too, the Hillel here is really nice and the food was good too. I made a bunch of friends at all of the Hillel events.
I realized that I never made a post about this so I figured that I should. This year at the Los Angeles robotics regional I won the Los Angeles “Dean’s List Finalist” award. It is the only award that FIRST robotics awards to individual students. Find out more about the award here.
Also, I got a nexus one.