Surprising things happen in new cities.
Yesterday, I was walking down the hall to visit a classmate when I ran into my student interviewer for the medical school. It turns out that he was a Rice alumni too, and now is just finishing up his PhD part of the MD/PhD. Interestingly enough, he was working on some aspects of a project that is related to the work in the lab that I chose this summer.
Later that night, I realized I couldn't get into the bathroom on my hall. I spent an hour first punching in random numbers, then pushing at it, then searching through all my papers to see if a code was written somewhere. Finally I decide to go to the front desk to ask what the code is... and the lady confusedly tells me "I don't think any of the bathrooms are locked." huh?? So i go back to my room, trying every women's bathroom along the way, and sure enough, none of them are locked! Then I got to mine, giving the knob a halfhearted turn, fully expecting it to stay shut. It opens! With further experimental trials, I realize that the door only opens if you turn it just a certain amount, too much and too little, and it keeps you out. What a great lock system..
I decided that Boston nights are too cold (bought a new blanket today). Last night I froze for a few hours because the sequence of the fan setting is apparently OFF-HIGH-MED-LOW. Very reasonably, I push the knob towards the low end, expecting it to turn off. Finally I decided I should use some extra force, and to add momentum, dragged the knob all the way to the left past the "high". What do you know, it turns off!
This morning, I woke up and went out to wander around. I go in a vague direction rumored to have some shops to buy supplies. I'm thinking, hmm, I'm rather hungry, wonder where I can eat.. so i follow a couple women up into some building and hooray, i'm in a cafeteria. I go and order "a muffin and a cup of milk." "A cup? We don't have cups of milk." "I mean, whatever container the milk comes in." "Oh, a container of milk?" "Yeah. Thanks." hahaha.
After breakfast, I continue on my way, and soon discover that I have wandered into a hospital. Oh, but then I looked at the signs, and realized I wasn't in just any hospital, but I was in Brigham and Women's! Wow cool. Brigham and Women's. I'm sure that I'm in Boston now. :)
4 comments:
i think it's in that order because if it were off-low-med-high then one might, when trying to flip from high to off, flip from high to low but not realize the mistake because the fan will slow down as if it is turning off. this is right up there with my theory that women's and men's buttons are on opposite sides so that it is easier for men to take off women's clothes and vice versa
most fans are off-hi-med-low actually
wow, ingenious! i'm learning new things all the time. haha.
hahaha you are so cute Diane =D
I had the exact same problem with the bathroom door in Vandy -- thought they were locked b/c of the punch-in code on the door! Hearing two girls talking inside, I knocked. They opened the door and I explained that I'm an interviewee and wasn't given the code ... and they just looked amused and told me there's no code :p
~Amy
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