http://mitsporttkd.com/blog Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:27:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en i haven't been to the career office since my freshman year... and i've heard rumors that they aren't very good (especially with pre-med stuff). but lo and behold, those rumors hold some string of truth!!  let me tell you about my experience... i waited patiently to get my resume reviewed because i ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/09/29/why-mit-career-office-sucks/ Tonight, olympic taekwondo started in Beijing. First, let me say that it looks like fighting at the olympics would be AWESOME. There is one center stage, raised on a pyramid structure, with four corner judges sitting outside the yellow boundaries. The coach sits at the base of the pyramid while the ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/08/21/olympics-in-beijing/ mmm, this is my last week of interning. i can't wait. as much as i enjoyed working at bose, i really can't keep up this wacky sleep schedule. sleeping at 11PM is a lot harder than you'd think, especially if your friends sleep much later. ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/08/05/presenting-mit-sport-tkd-girls/ HOME!   I got home on June 11th, flew in at Zia International Airport in Dhaka at night which is Bangladesh’s capital and not my home. Home sweet home is Chittagong.  The first person I saw was Abba (Bengali for dad).  I put out my T-mobile phone card from my razor and ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/08/05/where-in-the-world-is-shammi/ Exhibit A: Gordon, turned purple as a squashed summer blackberry in the sun Exhibit B: The Hole On a faraway beach, in a faraway land where the sands sing to the weary traveler, was a huge hole. Deep, wide and wet, its volume was a phenomenon in a plain of ridges and ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/07/29/highlights-from-singing-beach/ OHIOOOO everyone! wow, how to begin... blogging seems so strange now. i used to be really into the livejournal scene back in middle/high school (yeah, yeah... i was a teenybopper. but at least it's a step up from xanga? ^^). thinking back on it, i poured some serious love ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/07/26/my-first-entry-d/ (posted by Suz) and I did not quit TKD (yet).  I've been in and out of town, and when in town, drowning in work/patent bar review classes etc. I would go to the social events, if I had a long enough attention span to read Mary's e-mails. :-) Anyway, I went to June ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/07/19/i-did-not-fall-off-the-face-of-the-earth/ I'm sharing with you all a very interesting opinion essay by a Yale Alum in a tirade against Elitism supposedly fostered by prestigious (in this case, specifically Ivy League) schools: http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html If anyone has thoughts on this, I welcome the discussion. Just for myself, as an intellectual exercise from a debate with ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/07/19/on-the-supposedly-elitism-of-prestigious-institutions/ I just ate a cookie, it was delicious. As of right now, I'm sitting in lab, waiting for my post-doc to come in. This is a routine we have, I sit here and wait, because if I don't wait I might kill something. So I decided to be productive and update ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/07/10/fantastic-summer-update/ Lounging in the thick wet grass in the middle of Boston Common, and serenaded by pious choral music, everyone enjoyed a light lunch, whether it was old-fashion packed sandwiches, ready-made Subway, or something from the quaint Black Seed Cafe across the street. While in the Cafe, Bobby used his time ... http://mitsporttkd.com/blog/2008/07/10/boston-common-tkd-social/