Official Transitioner

For my birthday my brother got me some AquaNotes: And so far i’ve really enjoyed them. I’ve taken to using them to make lists with my suitemates. Thus far… Problems with a 300 Person Institution Collective Memory Impact of one person Never get away from problems Predictable Factions No privacy No new people Disproportionate bureaucracy [...]

Last week, Babson Business Law Professor Carolyn Hotchkiss talked to our leadership and ethics class about ethics in business and entrepreneurship. Notably, Great Entrepreneurs are passionate about an idea, not scads of money. This really resonated for me. I’ve always felt uncomfortable when people introduce themselves as a “serial entrepreneur,” because the term seems to indicate that [...]

I have days I call “LOA Days.” They tend to be an amalgamation of different meetings, visits, and conversations. Today: Observation of “The Entrepreneurial Manager” at HBS Lunch with Mei and Jun of ThinkEco, developers of the Modlet. Coffee with Alyshia at Andala Cafe. Visit to IDEO with Founder’s Journey to see talks by IDEO [...]

I realized I hadn’t given a good run down of what I’ll be working on this semester. SCOPE! I’m still working on my beloved SCOPE project- designing for transitioners.  We’ve just narrowed down to one idea, and we’ll be making a front end fully functional prototype Entrepreneurship Capstone- I’ll be working on a project for [...]

A week and two days ago I finally made the leap into the world of smart phone users.  When it comes down to it? So far, it hasn’t made a huge difference in my life. It almost seems like the phone is the expensive toy you always wanted as a child, but once you had, [...]

I interviewed for Olin’s Candidate weekend for the first time this year. Everyone has been surprised- but last year I was gone, and the year before I was an OVAL coordinator and not eligible. While I won’t add any specific details about our interview, a few things that stood out: Interviews are shockingly short and [...]

I also took the liberty to graph my facebook stats for people wishing me happy birthday. Here at times, in hours, after midnight, that they wished me happy birthday: data = Columns 1 through 9 -2.2500 -0.9667 0.0667 0.0833 0.3667 0.4500 0.8167 1.0167 1.0500 Columns 10 through 18 1.1833 1.8167 2.2167 2.4500 2.6667 2.7167 3.4833 [...]

IKEA Heights from DaveAOK on Vimeo. you should definitely watch all the episodes on vimeo. bonus: it’s only 35 minutes to do 7, but since you did seven it seems WAY longer!

SCOPE from Ellen Chisa on Vimeo. I made it last semester. lawlz. “Designing Products for Transitioners” – we’re not actually doing anything like this, it was just for inspiration.

I am old.  22, in fact.  Quite a bit changes in a year- this year definitely felt rougher than last year due to everything that’s going on at school, but I wanted to share the festivities. Yesterday I: 1. Went on a burrito adventure! Greg and I obtained burritos from: Anna’s, Felipe’s, Chipotle, Qdoba, and [...]