Otter's Journal: Leaving Hong Kong University for MIT

I had to laugh at this:

Cheap domestic labor was another unexpected perq of living in Hong Kong. I had a full-time, live-in maid, who had a three-room suite to herself behind the kitchen. When I was working under deadline pressure, I would call my maid, have her cook dinner, pack it up, and bring it to school. She would wait while I ate dinner, and then take the dishes home. At home, my dirty clothes would vanish, only to reappear washed and folded. I had clean sheets on my bed every day. My apartment was spotless. Fresh-squeezed orange juice for breakfast. You can sleep an extra fifteen minutes while your tub is being filled. When I had a date over for dinner, I could say after dessert, ``Don't worry; the maid will get the dishes.'' This is apparently an extremely romantic thing to say.

Here at MIT, I scrub my own bathtub, buy my own groceries, take out my own garbage, and wash my own dishes. When I'm under deadline pressure, which is always, I eat delivery pizza, not curried shrimp and mangoes.

Also:

HKUST is a tech school, like MIT or Georgia Tech. CUHK and HKU, in contrast, are general universities, e.g. Duke or harvard. HKUST admitted its first freshman class in 1990 or 1991. The campus is out in Clear Water Bay, a beautiful location in Kowloon next to the movie studio where they make Jacky Chan movies (so your hacking can occasionally be interrupted by enormous on-set explosions from some firefight in a forthcoming action adventure epic).

Maid

[RailGunner]

Did he get the maid to uh... polish his knob?


Huh huh huh huh-huh huh huh huh-huh

I said "knob".

huh huh huh-huh huh huh huh huh-huh huh

/Butt-Head