Fun with Legos

Fun with Legos So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make decisions about choosing classes. Each faculty advisor comes with an associate advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to all the innocnet and clueless froshies. This convenient relationship sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 innocent and clueless froshies bond together over an interesting but random seminar topic. My advising seminar is called Designing Kids Technologies, and it takes places in E15-001, aka The Lego Learning Laboratory. E15-001 is officially the single coolest room Ive ever seen. Its so cool, that Ive decided to devote an entire entry to it. First things first. This is what you seen as soon as you walk into the Media Lab, building E15: Maybe Im just weird, but I think that wall looks really cool. As you descend to E15-001: (if you havent figured out the number system yet, E15 signifies the building, the first digit indicates the floor (the basement, in this case), and the last two digits give the room number) Ok Im done making you look at walls. Well graduate from walls to doors. Here is the first glimpse you get of the Lego Learning Lab: And now the fun begins If you walk through the door and look to your right, you see a quite impressive Lego collection. (Oh, and that red thing thats cut off to the left of the photo- thats a phone booth. For serious.) If you walk through the door and look to your left, you see. Yes. Yes, that is in fact what you think it is. A monkey made entirely out of Legos. You know, you can get a UROP here? I mean cmon, who wouldnt want to work here? Theres a disco ball made out of CDs and everything! And hey, even the stairs are cool: That concludes our completely superficial tour of the Lego Learning Lab (the people who brought you Lego Mindstorms) in the Media Center (the people who brought you the Jerk-o-Meter). Check back later for some (hopefully cool) information about what actually happens in there. Ive found that its sometimes easy to forget that this place is actually a school.