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Entries from January 2006

8AM Classes and Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

by Matthew Smith · January 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

This semester I have blessed myself with five wonderful days of 8 AM each week. I know it sounds like a curse, but call me crazy - I do enjoy the longer days. We all know if I didn’t have a class until 11 AM I would be rolling out of bed at 10:30 AM. The downside is the rather tired and disoriented state that in which I arrive to my first classes of the day. This morning was especially bad but did lead to an intriguing discussion with my housemate David as we strolled to our 8 o’clock Controls class.

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ATO Spring Recruitment

by Matthew Smith · January 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Badge (Poster)Today marked the first of four days of Spring recruitment for the Alpha Zeta chapter of ATO. This year has turned out quite promising for our chapter, with sixteen fall pledges and three current spring pledges. Over the course of our recruitment period, we hope to gain a few more pledges out of the many excellent men whom we are currently getting to know.

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Welcome Back

by Matthew Smith · January 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Dear Readers,

If you attempted to visit my site during the past few weeks, things have been a little broken. First, the server was completely unaccessible, then, instead of the familiar yellow pages and witty banter that graced the old digivation.net, visitors were greeted with an ugly blue page declaring “site not defined.” Apparently some friendly neighborhood hackers felt so led as to attack the server hosting my site and delete all of the accounts contained therein. Thankfully, my equally friendly hosting company got my account back up and running ASAP, but it would seem that all backups are lost.

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