Confetti Cupcake Pop-Tarts: a terrible error

You might remember my previous Pop-Tart experience, but it is safe to say I have learnt nothing from that, as when I was in the grocery store the other day and noticed new Pop-Tarts then it was inevitable that I would buy them. Especially because they were covered in rainbow sprinkles. 

I present - Confetti cupcake flavour Pop-Tarts!

Confetti cakes, which are just white cakes with rainbow sprinkles in the cake and in the frosting, are fairly common here. You can get "Funfetti" mixes in the supermarket (I like the name and their rainbow-ness). They are highly colourful, but very mild in taste. So I figured it would just be a mild sweet flavour and I could totally polish off 8 Pop-Tarts. And how wrong I was.

The photos don't really explain the icky "birthday cake flavour". A lot of things are cake flavoured here, I have eaten birthday cake oreos (mint ones are far superior) and cake batter oreo ice cream from JP Licks (very batter-y in flavour and far superior to actual birthday cake oreos). However, these Pop-Tarts were a complete failure, filled with nasty cake-y flavour cream and bland sugary-ness. I swear I could feel my tongue drying out from all the sugar (like an osmosis thing?). So I took the bite that you can see in the top photo, broke a piece off for the second photo, then tried to make myself eat another bite, gave up and had a nice bowl of Weetabix (from Wholefoods, which also sells Nandos sauce! Joy!). One week later I accepted that I didn't want to eat any more cupcake Pop-Tarts and that I didn't know anyone who did. No more cupcake Pop-Tarts for me, I gave up and threw them out.

Shame I'm missing out on those eight vitamins and minerals. And all those weird colours. It would be nice to start each morning with a rainbow.

Ahoy there, Happenings in the Infinite Corridor

First day back after Spring Break and what happens? MIT becomes all MIT-y again.

All aboard the fail boat?

So yeah, there's just a sail boat in lobby ten (under the dome of Killian Court, here's a map to help you out).

Just in case you were in any doubt, here is a more close up photo of the boat. I think it has a rudder?

"Why is there a sail boat in lobby ten?" is what I guess you are wondering.....

I asked this very question at lunch of my officemates, and later of the internet, and apparently it's because the MIT sailing pavilion is now open. Beginners sailing for students starts on April 3rd. I'm guessing that the boat is one of the tech dinghies, but boats are not one of my special Mastermind topics. Or even something I have read about on Wikipedia.

Interesting boat-related MIT fact - the students who complete the sailing, fencing, pistol shooting and archery courses offered by MIT can now formally receive their "pirate certificate" from the physical education people.

“Ahoy, Avast, and finally, Arrrrrr!’’

P.S. Lobby ten is the place where I see people juggling on a Friday evening. I may have mentioned this to some of you IRL as it confused me. I checked the MIT calendar and a) The juggling people are in the MIT calendar every nearly Friday afternoon/evening and b) If you try and juggle they will give you a cookie!