Playing pool

Tonight I went with some Sloanies to a local pool hall that just happened to
play 80's music all night. Can you say new favorite hang out? This is
a classmate who we poked fun of all night (in jest)
because of his serious form when playing. I believe the name we gave him tonight was "gecko." :)

Bowling!

I went bowling today with some old friends living in boston from both BU and high school. Despite having stitches I was doing alright, but on our second game they programed our lane to put up bumbers just on my turn. Embarassing- yes; awesome- yes. I kind of like this picture as I am a brown streak except for my leg firmly planted to the ground.

Meet my core team!

So at the start of orientation we were introduced to our "core team" consisting of 6-7 people that we are assigned to work with for the first semester of classes. This Tuesday, we went to a retreat to perform some group bonding exercises. Thankfully, my stitches didn't completely put me out of commission, but let's just say rope climbing was not in the cards. The day's events below:


Here's my team and a bit about their histories:
(left side back to front)
Jun Mo- South Korean journalist
Josh- financial IT
Me- oblivious to cameras
(right side back to front)
Chris- financial consulting in India
Rimi- environmental insurance/yoga instructor
Tatiana- engineer from Costa Rica
Charles- Venture Capital partner with a business in Brazil


The floating hula hoop: This exercise was actually a lot harder than it looks. With a hula hoop on the tips of our fingers, we had to bring it to the ground. Thank goodness Rimi is a yoga instructor on the side as she calmed us all down and guided our fingers to the ground in unison.


This was a strange exercise using verbal and nonverbal communication. Somehow we had to verbally command 3 blindfolded teammates on how to get a ball in a nearby can. ps: they couldn't step off of the purple mat.


ummm, may I just add I haven't sprinted in years?


In a boat building exercise, our teams' raft completely fell apart during the cast off. And like the good business students we are, we took someone else's finished product to the dock and back :)

Get well soon

Thanks, mom, for my get well soon package from Harry & David! Will
make the weekend even better. My stitches should be coming out soon
and it seems as if there will be minimal scarring. Phew!

Home Office

So I finally got around to putting together my new desk in my "office" shipped from Target. I must say that for only $100 it looks super sharp and it matches my dark wood bookcase. With bum hand and all, I was able to put it together in under 20 minutes and voila!- home office. I also brought all my toys and doo-dads from work and have set them up accordingly. It's a good thing I enjoy sitting at this desk as I will be spending many a night here.

Mind you the above diagram does not show the complete picture and may even look a bit pathetic considering how much I am extolling it's praises, but I don't have the heart nor the stamina to fill the bookshelves yet. In the meantime, however, I can drink a continuously warm cup of earl gray and catch up on my emails....

Stitches

Sorry for the ultra gross post, but I cut my palm while white water
rafting this weekend. Actually, it is healing up nicely now unlike
what you see here. No detail of my life unposted!

Pre term

Proof positive I am going to MIT! This is the famous dome outside of
killian court. Coincidence?

And then I put my onions onto a pizza crust and topped it off with
crumbled goat cheese. Watch out bertucci's!!

I'm getting quite domestic with my time off and here is the start of
my attempt at making caramelized onions from scratch.

Cupcake cones

Here is one of my first projects this past weekend. Yum!

So I just out-nerded many of my classmates by proving myself to be the best at Guitar Hero at a get together this weekend. I think my friend Naomi put it best when she said, "Wow, you beat a bunch of MIT kids at a video game?"

test

looks like I can blog on the go using my iPhone! This is a test post
from my phone.

Manny and I hosted a summer bbq for our classmates on Sunday. (We've secretly decided our house name is KiManny- like Brangelina. Poor kid, he's such a good sport to tolerate me!) It went well and we have about 15 people in our place with tons of foods and tons more beer leftover in the fridge. I think we'll bring it to the next Sloanie bbq on Tuesday.


Surprisingly, we had a great set up to accommodate all the people.


The flowers from Whole Foods looked great in my new crystal vase!


OMG! Kim is cooking! Manny said I looked really domestic in my new apron. And ironically, I was talking to classmates about how I would like to go into consulting while wearing it. Sending mixed signals, are we? I am here preparing shrimped wrapped in bacon cooked in bacon grease. It was waaaay awesome and we decided to host a BACON party sometime in the fall.


Here is Manny firing up the grill on our fire escape. This is probably way illegal, but it sure got us through two trays of bbq chicken, hot dogs, sausage, and s'mores! Shortly before this pic, he nearly burned off all his facial hair!

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Here's the first of many pics to come in of Teresa's wedding! And like a dumb @$$ I forgot my camera that day so I am relying on pics to dribble in on her facebook page :)


My hair is still not recovered from all the hairspray she put into it! Also, this guy looks like he wants nothing to do with me :)


Here we are all lined up.


Dustin looks great in his uniform!


Posing for the real wedding pics.


The happy couple!

So here is like the dorkiest thing I've done since I've left work!

Click here to see the video!

I got an A in my Principles of Microeconomics class, so I'm in at MIT! It was 6 weeks of absurdity, but I got through it and can now kick back... that is unless real class starts!

Good news! I found a place to live in Cambridge! Actually, it's in Inman Square on the border of Cambridge and Somerville. Inman is a great quiet location that has yet to be taken over by chains and big box stores. It's full of Harvard and MIT ppl (students and/or professors) with owner operated coffee shops, bakeries, restaurants and pubs.

I am living with a fellow MIT Sloan student in my class Manny. He is from Guam and is very easy to get along with. I'm living on the second floor so I have TWO rooms, THREE closets, and all for about 1/3 of what I am paying now! One room will be a bedroom and the other I am going to call my den or study. Maybe I'll get some fake antlers to put up. Should be nice to have my own space to get to work!

The place is very clean with a full kitchen and I'm really looking forward to living there. Below are some pics!


This is our dining area by the kitchen. We even have an island seen in the lower right corner. The last tenants left the dining table, chairs, and couch!


Here is our kitchen. I can't wait to use my nice appliances again! Island great for entertaining!

I seem to have made it big in the political blog world as a story I wrote for AMNY has been reported in the Chicago Tribune website!

Original post here

Slideshow of my post here

The Swamp reporting on my post here! They referred to me as a citizen blogger! Is that as lame as a citizen's arrest?

So I witness Chad and Cari's wedding this past Wednesday in Mount Vernon East. It was quick and painless, and only cost $40! Here are the highlights:

Taking the train to love.... the 9:20 to be exact!



Thanks, Mets, for this tip!


Go marriage!


Woman to Chad: Are you nervous?
Chad: Nah, I've done this before.


Yay!


I seem to not like what I'm hearing here.


$40! No returns or exchanges.


Awesome diner breakfast afterwards.


Your wedding may have been cheap, but that doesn't stop us from making you do embarrassing things and taking pictures!