Here are some pics I owe you from the past few weeks:


We went to Chris' east coast wedding reception. I went in a sari and it was awesome. Here is my teammate Rimi on the left who lent me the sari and helped me put it on.


Manny and I hosted a dinner party where he made one awesome pot roast. This time I could take pics because it wouldn't be so creepy. We love entertaining!


Our friend Joe brought the ingredients for his famous bananas foster. He nearly put in half that handle of rum!


Manny serves himself some rice.


Afterwards, we forced our guests into slave labor. We didn't even give them sponges to clean so they had to use their bare hands. Just kidding! People were happy to help out with the cleaning duty in return for the yummy food.

And like the good MIT nerds we are, we break out our laptops and do 2
hours of accounting and econ homework. Then we drove to ptown for
dinner and dancing. More pics to come once my friend sends them to me!

Upon arrival, we promptly make some mac n cheese. Way to use the duck
apron!

Cape cod!

It's our friend Jesse's 29th bday and what better to take him than
Ptown?! We rented a car and picked up and went.

Debates!

I am sitting in a private media room watching the debates with
classmates. Thank goodness for hdtv! It's like mst3k of politics.

G.I. Joes and Barbie Hoes

So this weekend I went to a themed party with Sloanies. And because there was no way I was going to dress up like Barbie, I went as a "G.I. Ho" instead.


We sufficiently freaked out the whole train on the subway with a German in drag and sloanies in army gear carrying two bricks of cheap beer. People literally got up and moved to the other side of the train!


Here are the happy little soldiers saluting in front of the flag at the Charles MGH T-stop. USA! USA!


I bought this shirt, dog tags and hat half an hour before the party from an army surplus store. I really like this shirt in particular because the camo is pixilated.... I would also like to point out that the dog tags of my friend Jesse on the right say "Semper Bi-curious" and "Army of Juan." We laughed about this all night.


Our friend Daniel dressed in Drag as a Barbie, and I look like I walked right off the set of "Boys Don't Cry." Talk about gender confused! The best was his thick German accent responding to cat calls on the street. The pair of us couldn't hail a cab to save our lives as our big group went back to Cambridge. It was a very "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" moment here.


Towards the end of the night when I've had one too many Coke Zeros!

I didn't sign up for this

Please give me one freakin' example when I would use this homework's
applications in the business world. PLEASE! I have been going out of
my mind this week on stupid statistics and probability. Curses, MIT,
curses!!!

Dinner party!

So instead of doing dmd homework as I should be doing, Manny and I
decided to throw another dinner party at our place tonight. Here he is
with his family's secret pot roast recipe. It smells so darned good I
wish I could share it with you all through the blog. Also I think he
looks like an advertisment for some ethnic sauce. All he needs is a
pot belly and perhaps a chef's hat. More pics to come throughout the
night!

DMD: The bane of my existence...

It's sad when you are grateful for fresh dry erase markers and a wall sized white board. Welcome to the 3 hour team meeting today for preparing a team paper for our class Data Models and Decisions (DMD). Here is a taste of our 3 hrs of toil (I spent 2 hrs previously preparing on my own). Ummmm, this is just the first week down; the easiest week says a 2nd year...

It was a very proud day indeed to find out that the founders of the company that created Guitar Hero are in fact alumni of MIT and participated in the MIT $100K Business Plan Competition, which I will either enter or help facilitate this year.

Stata center

Here is a pic of the famous Stata Center at MIT, an architectural
oddity. I believe MIT sued the pants off the architect for the faulty
construction. However, it looks super cool and I feel like I'm in a
dr. Seuss book.

Stitches out!

Yesterday I got my stitches taken outa
at the MIT clinic on campus. Looks good, right? It will be another
week before I can put on anti scarring cream.

First day of school

So it's actually more of a half day,but we still have homework due for
the first class. Also, here is a shot of where I wait for the bus. A
real downer for the rest of the day...

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?