New Video

Here's some new video from this winter. I've taken to setting up the video camera and trying to catch more of a "real life" picture than just the funny moments. The result is that the clips tend to go on a bit longer and are quite as exciting, but I think they're still cute. Feel free to fast forward...

Mica Winter 2010 from Sarah Reed on Vimeo.

New Video

Here's some new video from this winter. I've taken to setting up the video camera and trying to catch more of a "real life" picture than just the funny moments. The result is that the clips tend to go on a bit longer and are quite as exciting, but I think they're still cute. Feel free to fast forward...

Mica's Drawing

Mica is a drawing fanatic and her skills have really been getting good! The colored picture above is a poster she made for the class that my lab mate teaches: Toy Design. Specifically the poster says: 2.00B Toy Design, with her signature happy spiders floating around. She did 90% of the drawing-- I only had to help her on a couple of the letters! It's been fun to see it posted up around the school (slightly photoshopped to make it a bit more legible).
The other one is something she drew while I was making breakfast the other morning. I have definitely seen comics with similar style :)

Classes started

Classes officially began last week. I'm TAing one class, which I'll also be taking. And I'm the lab instructor for another class-- for which I'm getting course credit. The class I'm taking is another Product Design class, similar to the one I took my first semester here-- but this time it will be more Industrial Design (aesthetics) focused, and almost all grad students instead of all undergrads. The project theme this year is products relating to MIT in honor of MIT's 150th anniversary next year. At first I was uninspired by the theme but, with further thought, I think it might be a fitting way to end my time here (at least my time taking classes-- I'll probably have to come back in the fall to write my thesis). I've had very mixed emotions about this place, but lately I've been trying to appreciate all that it is and has given me. We toured the MIT museum last week and here are some highlight pictures from the trip.

This is a sculpture in which the balls continuously spill out of the nozzel and then are sucked back down a hole in the base. Really creepy.

Cute Robot.

This was a display about a group that is studying how abalone shells are made and how to synthesize them since they are so amazingly cool.

For those who don't know, the square root of negative 1 is an imaginary number. I think it's funny.