Work has been keeping me busy, but here it is finally: day four of The Odyssey event at MIT in blog form.

I went geocaching for the first time today. It turned out to be a lot of fun too. Luke and I ran all over the MIT campus hunting down waypoints where we would take a picture and usually find a letter in the surroundings; we unscrambled the letters later to form a word which turned out to be “eureka”. It took us about three hours to hit all nine waypoints. We probably could have finished faster if we had a more reliable GPS unit. Here’s a groovy collage of the photos we took at each of the nine waypoints. You can’t see me in the very last one, but I’m standing between the two middle pillars.

Later that day we all went to some seminars, which Julia, Parker, and I ditched in order to go work on our presentation. One thing I relearned from InvenTeams is how much procrastination can suck. We waited until the last minute to prepare for every presentation we ever did for InvenTeams. Somehow we didn’t do that bad on any of them, but we could have done better with more preparation.

That night we had a lobster bake, it was godly. I had two lobsters and was tempted to go for a third, but decided against it. We also had to redo our skit. This time around we did a Mac/PC commercial spoof. It was pretty funny but we were all standing too far away from the mic so only the InvenTeams supervisors who were sitting close by could hear us. After dinner, Julia, Parker, and I practiced our presentation for a few hours—I think we were up practicing till 1AM which at that point we were finally satisfied with the fluidity of the presentation. Procrastination is fun, but you end up paying for it later.