This is 26

I was away in Rhode Island this week for the MIT Sloan Spring Gala. We came back Sunday and celebrated my b-day with Sunday dinner at Koreana, the best Korean BBQ!


This is what 26 looks like. I got to reuse the dress I wore to the wedding in London!

Manny and me for some reason chose not to smile with our mouths open.

Look at this spread! We had two grills going cooking up spicy pork, pork belly, and bulgogi. Yumm!

Here's a shot of the full gang afterwards. We were completely stuffed, there was no way we were going to get ice cream!

Bday present

Thanks April, John, Johnny and Paul for my awesome book. Are you guys
trying to tell me something??? :)
Haha. Just kidding. I think it will be a fascinating read!

Hot tub

Hot tub in Maine reminds me of the blue lagoon in Iceland!

Roughing it in Maine

This weekend I'm away with friends in a freakin mansion in Maine. Life
is rough!

Here's us daringly "MIT"-ing on Devil's Bridge. I'm in the M.


Leland and I took out one of the sailboats on the island and sailed along the beach. We were looking to claim new territory or overtake other ships. Yarrrr.

In the middle of the capital of St. John's, there is a huge head statue in memory of VC Bird, the first Prime Minister of Antigua.

We went to Rosie's birthday party while on the island. This is the woman behind the making of Susie's Hot Sauce, the unofficial hot sauce of Antigua. After diagnosing her small business and giving her recommendations and templates on how to better track her sales and expenditures, we nearly cleared out her inventory buying 130+ bottles of sauce from her!

We are sitting in a presentation much like that of the Salem Witch Museum learning about the history of Antigua. I look super tan!

Here's us going out to a posh bar one of the first nights in town. No, that isn't a huge glass of wine, but a very expensive glass of Diet Coke. I paid more for Diet Cokes than people paid for cocktails on the island!

And of course, I couldn't leave Antigua without taking advantage of the duty free shopping! Here is my diamond and tanzanite ring I got for bargain basement prices!

Here is a group shot after our first night's dinner at Coconut Grove. You can see we are all a little pale to begin with.

Of course I got a little time in at the local casino :)

Another great pic at sunset at Shirley's Heights. The sky looks like cotton candy.

You may not be able to tell, but this is a wave crashing up to me as someone tried to take my pic at a place called Devil's Bridge. Slaves on the island would try to escape via the bridge, though often drowned after falling off. You can see why I was so skittish.

Here's me and Leland having a laugh at the little private tables our resort set up on the beach. We were doing our best Vogue poses though I think it is fitting for the next issue of Conde Nast Traveller.

Antigua-nized

All these pics are out of order, but great shots nonetheless.


Manny, me and Marlon at sunset at Shirley Heights where there is a steel drum/reggae/bbq party every sunday on the island.

Me and Manny at a club on the water called The Coast. Talk about listening to mid 90's hip hop/reggae/R&B!

Marlon's parents hosted a party for us within the first nights in Antigua. They rented a steel drum band and got catered food, complete with Susie's Hot Sauce! Here is me harkening back to my steel drum days, though clearly I don't remember how to play them.

This is a view from our tour on Culture Day as we walk the grounds around Nelson's Dockyard.

This is the view from my hotel room where we stayed at the Jolly Beach Hotel Resort. It was an all inclusive resort with various beaches and restaurants and buffets. I think we all got sick of the breakfast at Hemisphere's, but we enjoyed our time on the beach!

Back from Antigua!

I'm back safe and sound from the land of sun and sea! Here is a group shot of the students and faculty after our last meal on the island at a place called Abracadabra. I'm pretty tired after travel and such, so I'll post more pics later after I recover!

For real...

To be continued... :)

Spring Break! woo! Well, sort of...

I know it's been forever since I've blogged, but the first half of the spring semester is over (woohoo!). With the hellish Finance midterm behind me, I now we go into a one week period called Sloan Innovation Period and then into Spring Break. However, I've co-organized a study tour combining both weeks into a working trip to Antigua. How convenient! So I'll be gone from 3/18 to 3/27 balancing working on a projects for local businesses with outings including windsurfing, shopping, cultural intake, and sun bathing! Should it start to hail or blizzard next week, take comfort in the fact I am most likely swinging in a hammock sipping a virgin stawberry daquiri shielding the blinding sun from my eyes with my laptop. Life at Sloan is truly rough.... :)

Blog blog blog

As I enter into my next semester at Sloan, I have been selected to be an official student blogger for MIT Sloan! Check out the top link on the right column to check out my page. Right now there is nothing there, but check in in the upcoming months to see what hundreds of prospective students are reading to see what real life is like at Sloan!

Inauguration Fun

Here is a fun pic I made online at Obamicon.com as a play on the famous obama poster showing Obama and the word "progress." It gets me in the inauguration mood!

IN-N- OUT burger!

I made it safely to California! Our hotel is in Palo Alto right near Stanford University. I am also proud to say that it only took me one hour in this state to have gone to IN-N-OUT burger already! Great fries and a burger "animal style"!

Extra pics

Am done with 2/3 finals so I have found some time to post a few extra pics.


Here's another one of me and my fall ball date.


Here's me and my salsa partner, Alex.


Here is Daniel making a German mulled wine for a holiday party. He soaked the cone of sugar with rum and lit it on fire.

Brass Rat

Meet the Brass Rat, MIT's school ring. This white gold hunk o' junk illustrates life at MIT with a picture of a Beaver (Nature's engineer) surrounded by empty coffee cups and crashing stock market billboards. Apparently, it's the third most recognized ring in the world so if you see someone with it you can run away because it will cause some damage in a fight, or you can mug them because they are an easy MIT nerdy target. Take your pick...

Latin "Si" Function

So my friend Alex and I volunteered to be Salsa dancers in our latin consumption function for the whole class. Here are some during and after pictures with the people in our number!

Fall Ball

Long time, no blog!
Here are some pics from the Sloan annual Fall Ball. It was in the Copley hotel in downtown Boston and was attended by both classes.


$70 buys you dinner, open bar, and dancing. It felt like prom all over again!


Here is me with some of the ladies of our class with some wives and significant others.


Me and some classmates. I have no idea what we are doing, but Chris looks like he's in a p diddy video.


Here is my "sham" date Damien playing the part of drunkard really well. It's quite priceless actually.

Korean c-function, cont.

Here are some of my classmates performing tai kwan do for us. The guy
closest to me is Jun Mo in my core team! We were so proud of him!

Korean Consumption Function

Tonight was the Korean C-function where we all of Sloan comes together
to eat ethnic food and watch cultural events. Here are some of our
classmates performing the traditional fan dance.

Thanksgiving dinner

Sloan hosted a huge thanksgiving dinner for the first year students.
It included turkey with all the fixin's including pecan and pumpkin
pie in the end. The only thing missing was the traditional baked ziti :)

Surviving Midterms and Beyond

Awesome 80's party followed by 80's dancing...


Celebrating Manny's birthday with more dancing!

Iceland, cont.

Here are more pictures from Iceland and beyond:


Can you tell I am half of the "T" on the left side?


I'm like that kid in "A Christmas Story"


This is the Blue Lagoon where we swam in hot geothermic waters while it was freezing cold outside.


See, Iceland is not all ice!


Me and my roommate on our snow mobile.

Back in NYC!

Am back in ny for a little bit and of makes me sad that I ever left.
However, 4 old friends came out last night to welcome me back and it
ended with rice pudding from Rice to Riches, a rice pudding bar!

Kim in Iceland!

Hey everyone!

For those of you who don't know, I am currently in Iceland for the Columbus Day weekend with 31 other Sloanies. We are having the time of our life and here is a pic as a preview of coming attractions! This is me and my friend Alex as we got back from snow mobiling on a glacier. It was awesome and I look like Speed Racer!