Culinary Ingenuity

So, what do you get when you mix together eggs, goat cheese brie, lentils, and a mix of Indian Spices? Pure deliciousness!

Hats off to my roommate for whipping up this innovative dish with meager supplies in the fridge. It really hit the spot at 3AM.

This is what school used to feel like

Weather in the 50's, work for the week pretty much wrapped up, time to go to the gym and actually do some thinking, stimulating classes.... Wow, this is what my idyllic memories of undergrad were like, and today, I relived the experience at MIT.

Living with Cookie Monsters

Less than a day ago, I purchased a box of delicious Whole Foods chocolate chip cookies (I highly recommend them to everyone).

After having one or two with one of my roommates last night, I returned today to find 1 lone cookie still in the box. Between the two of them, they cleaned me out.

Now I want a damn cookie!

Analyze Blood.... With a Cell Phone!

Awesome article here of a UCLA scientist who figured out how to connect under $50 of equipment to a cell phone to be able to analyze blood anywhere, anytime.

Back to Class

I am on to my second semester at MIT Sloan amidst a snowstorm that could drop up to 7 inches on Boston. I'm actually pretty stoked to be back. Class is much more refreshing than consulting internship interviews and interview prep. On that topic, I have to miss my first day of Finance I to go to an interview. When will it end!

Using Psychology for Conservation

Here's a cool article that describes how a power company is sending people frowny faces in their power bills if their power use exceeds the average for that home. Apparently it's working based off of peer pressure. Even Cialdini weighs in on the article.

Leave it to Thomas Friedman

Leave it to Thomas Friedman to sum up the current state of the economy and our prospects for recovery in one sentence (from today's column):

"We have woven such a tangled financial mess with subprime mortgages wrapped in complex bonds and derivatives, pumped up with leverage, and then globalized to the far corners of the earth that, much as we want to think this will soon be over, that is highly unlikely."

- Thomas Friedman, 2/1/09