Official Transitioner

I saw an interesting blog post earlier today, thanks to Christina! http://lifehacker.com/5367129/nine-workspaces-where-famous-folks-get-stuff-done I thought I’d share a photo of my current workspace: I also work on my bed a lot:

Since getting back to Olin life has been pretty interesting. One particularly notable event has been the “Scopeathon.”  The scopeathon was when my SCOPE team- a team working on a “novel product for people transitioning from college to the workplace” (centered around social productivity) decided to work on our project for 24-hours straight. This was [...]

I have tons to blog about- but for now something I wanted to record. A few drink recipes I whipped up out of the contents of Alyshia’s refridgerator: The I-Wish-It-Were-A-Mimosa Rose’s Pomegranate Peach Schnapps Fresca Vodka The Mermaid-Drink Rose’s Blue Raspberry Apple Pucker Vodka Fresca The Gummy Bear Grenadine Peach Scnhapps Fresca Coconut Rum Mango [...]

Yes, back in crazy Boston. Back at crazy Olin. Shenanigans since moving in: Unpacking! Visiting my brother at Babson. Several trips to Target Going to all my classes once! HFID teams are assigned, still waiting on SCOPE… Suite rules dinner at Target Heading over to MIT to see Karen Hart in Batboy, hang out in [...]

I just finished installing a new Operating system, Jolicloud, on my netbook. So far, I’m loving it: The application icons are tiny. This makes me happy because I feel like they aren’t eating a ton of my screen, and they don’t seem cluttered. My wireless drivers work again. I fubared them installing Windows 7, and [...]

“When a frog is slipped into a pot of cold water on the stove, he never recognizes the deadly rising temperature. Instead, the heat anesthetizes the frog’s senses. I was unaware, like the frog, of my cameras’ slow march from easy to hard-to-use as they slowly became computerized. We are all experiencing this same, slow, [...]

It’s been 489 days since I was in a formal learning environment. Though I’ve written extensively about the beginnings of my LOA, and some of the major accomplishments, I still haven’t had a chance to fully reflect on all the implications of what I learned during my time away. Something I definitely noticed today while [...]

Today was Olin’s summer reading book convocation. The speaker was Dev Patnaik, who, appropriately, wrote Olin’s summer reading book: Wired to Care. Wired to Care was entirely centered around empathy and designing for a user: either yourself, or walking into someone else’s shoes. Unfortunately, the discussion devolved a bit into arguing about the morality (or [...]

I finally got around to watching this the other day: It wasn’t as innovative as I was expecting. I wager that this is because it was five years ago, but honestly, I didn’t hear anything I heard before. I mostly felt like it was, again, a scare movie. While it might have positive intentions (I’m [...]

“There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the glutton, Gula punit Gulax. Indigestion is charged by the good God with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember [...]