Beating

For the three of you who dared read beyond the admittedly odd name, I just came back from Georgia Tech. It so happens to be a pretty neat place. Before I visited, it was on my short list, but it was no where near the top. Now, it is neck and neck with MIT. So, obviously, I had a great time there.

I took part in the connect with tech programmish-thingamajig (technical term, don't worry about it), in which I spent a good part of two days on campus and spent the night in one of the undergrad dorms. Like any place where many people are seeing each other for the first time, it was somewhat awkward. I'm not quite sure what I was going with that, but on wards. We took a tour of the campus first, and it was a nice place. Anywho, I got to meet a load of people, eventually including my host person Luke Walker, who happens to be from Texas. Apparently, there are more Star Wars fans than Chuck Norris fans on campus, just judging by the number of parodies on his name.

Once again on a tangent, I try to recoup. After all this (this being meeting everyone and eating dinner), we (we being the five connect people and three tech people) played some pool (I lost horribly) and (I try to insert as many parentheses as possible) we played some trivia, explaining the title. The name of our trivia team was Off in Public. Hehe, get it? Since no one can beat us, transitively backwardly forward, they also cannot beat off in public. Its just not right. We won, of course, but it didn't involve our awesome name as much as some of our opponents thought. It more involved cell phones and Google. No it wasn't cheating! It is called "using available resources."

After the social, we went to the post-social social (catchy, isn't it?), where we (at this point being a large group of people) watched V for Vendetta. Good movie, it is. I had never seen it before, and I managed to keep my sleep deprived self awake for the duration of the film. We (now it is a small group) went back to the dorm and crashed.

Monday was standard college visitation stuffs. I went to a physics II class and struggled to stay awake (several people were not so successful), toured the campus some more and saw some sights. Something ridiculous there is a guitar playing robot. It was awesome beyond belief. I jokingly called out Free Bird while we were watching it, and the guy made it play it! Albeit, it wasn't the best rendition, but it was pretty amazing. That and going to the warehouse where they make competition F1 and off road racers were the highlights. If I go to Georgia Tech, I'm definitely going to be on the off road team. Needless to say again, I had a great time.

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