14 Pitman cleans up real nice
Here’s a picture of me, Raj and Paul (current and former roommates, respectively), the night of Campus Dance.
I think this might be the only picture of all three of us, so I like it quite a bit. Paul convinced me to sneak into the party with him and he convinced me to put on the nicest dress that I could find in my closet (I did, however, wear sandals–yes, an homage to tacky). We met up with Raj in the Cog&LingSci Department building because he had locked himself out of his office there. So we waited for campus security together while drinking beer in my office.
Raj just finished his second year here. He works on vision perception stuff with Fulvio Domini, and his latest experiment involved sitting in a dark room looking at a small rotating disc with blue dots of light while listening to ambient electronic music. He also plays the bass in a band with Steve Sloman.
Paul is pursuing his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology. He’s just finishing up his dissertation on German opera, for which he did field work in Berlin a year after I was there; he lived in the same neighborhood that I had lived in, Prenzlauer Berg. Paul just moved out of our apartment to travel for the summer and then possibly move to New York in the fall. He will be missed!
So, yeah, these two people made my first year of graduate school really awesome outside of work. Yay, them.
emma :: Jun.05.2007 :: misc :: No Comments »