<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:22:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Tess's Blog</title><description></description><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>45</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-860758135446231159</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-20T19:22:10.334-05:00</atom:updated><title>Trekkerly Epic.</title><atom:summary type='text'>My roomate has just made be aware of this glorious problem on the 18.01 (Single-Variable Calculus - for non-MIT folk) practice exam. Ka'blah!
(click on the image to read)

</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/11/trekkerly-epic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-3653887220002980775</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-09T00:04:11.394-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>leaves</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>the autumn leaves</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>fake books</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pictures</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>leaves on the trees in the breeze before I freeze oh geez</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>jazz</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>photos</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>procrastination of homework</category><title>The Autumn Leaves....</title><atom:summary type='text'>...all jazz musicians, take your fakes books out now!

Anyway, being from California, I have never seen the trees turn to such deep reds and yellows. So seeing stuff like this (see below) is pretty amazing. Once again, these are just photos from my phone, but they get the point across.



</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/11/autumn-leaves.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-5523877716263707687</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-05T23:52:53.847-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>the code book</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Obama</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>exciting times</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>socks</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>telepathy</category><title>Well, Hello There.</title><atom:summary type='text'>We've finally got a president and MIT has a four day weekend coming up. Exciting times ahead. Looks like I'll get more homework tomorrow. *leaps with joy*

Hopefully, I'll finish up the book I'm reading (the Code Book) before things get busy again. Educational endeavors always seem to interrupt my leisure reading. Like I said, exciting times. Leading back to the novel, it's a zooming trip through</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/11/well-hello-there.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-5842326983348331217</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-03T22:57:17.989-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>MIT</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>itch</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>jumping</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>code book</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>prancing</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>postering</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>spare time</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>norah jones</category><title>Itch.</title><atom:summary type='text'>So for some reason, the past two weeks have been fairly light in workload. Probably a combination of tests scheduling in nicely and just not having a website to redesign. Because MIT has a 4 day weekend coming up and I don't have any work to do until Thursday, I've been going though options of what I can do with this spare time because I am itching to do something. Do I draw up dress designs, do </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/11/itch.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-7436270866087982302</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-01T23:49:24.803-04:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>MIT</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ebay</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Mondrian dress</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wockets</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>november</category><title>Happy November!</title><atom:summary type='text'>Seriously, November came out of nowhere! I just looked at the calendar this morning and it said NOVEMBER! and I was like AHHHH! but YAY!!!! It's just a bit difficult to believe that I've already been at MIT for 2 months, the time has really flown past, but many people said that it would.

Hope everyone's Halloween went along nicely. Some of my fellow floor mates and I went to "Spooky Skate" as </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/11/happy-november.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-7533862943015928721</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-29T23:03:14.097-04:00</atom:updated><title>...but baby it's cold outside.</title><atom:summary type='text'>Okay, so it's not THAT cold outside, but it's starting to get down there in degrees. My senses need to be recalibrated to Boston temperatures, southern California ones don't apply here (if they did, winter started a month ago).

Speaking of calibrating! I've got a UROP now at House_n. (Okay, technically I should be saying I "participate in a UROP" since UROP = Undergraduate Research Opportunity </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/10/but-baby-its-cold-outside.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-8046854388965586009</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-20T23:51:35.145-04:00</atom:updated><title>If you've seen these around MIT...</title><atom:summary type='text'> 
 

...and you're here, then you're in the right place. Hello and welcome to blondegeek.net!

*pictures taken with my pixelicious cell phone camera*
</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/10/if-youve-seen-these-around-mit.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-6066716466565353829</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-19T23:11:34.619-04:00</atom:updated><title>Oh! BTW...</title><atom:summary type='text'>How do ya'll like the new site design?</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/10/oh-btw.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-306811900643701236</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-19T23:09:57.790-04:00</atom:updated><title>Starting off the week.</title><atom:summary type='text'>Well, hello there! I'm in my seventh week of being a frosh at MIT, and so far, so good. For fellow MIT peeps: I'm taking 8.01, 18.02, 3.091, and 21M.011. For non-MIT peeps (and for those who may not have been acquainted to 21M0.11): I'm taking Mechanics, Multi-variable Calculus, Intro. to Solid State Chemistry, and Intro. to Western Music. My upright bass is here with me in my dorm (sitting </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/10/starting-off-week.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-1578704669587102642</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-18T17:25:59.256-04:00</atom:updated><title>Ciao!</title><atom:summary type='text'>I'm heading off to Italy tomorrow to visit family, just 3 days after my 18th birthday and 2 weeks after graduation! Maybe I'll get to use that not so provisional and recently turned international driver's license of mine...probably not. They don't kid when they say that Italians are CRAZY drivers.

New shirts are up! I do love seeing more boxes on the T-shirts page. Hope you like them :)

Well, </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/06/ciao.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-7512042118054400934</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-14T17:39:53.869-04:00</atom:updated><title>Back from MIT!</title><atom:summary type='text'>Summary: Caltech was fun. MIT was awesome! Harvard...I have no clue!

Two schools with totally different feels (and one that as I said up above, I have no clue about), and I can try to explain what exactly those two "feels", well, feel like, but it probably won't be the same thing that you would feel about the two schools and again it's a feeling thing and those things don't particularly </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/04/back-from-mit.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-4510645805597249068</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-03T19:21:37.550-04:00</atom:updated><title>Hello from Caltech!</title><atom:summary type='text'>Hey ya'll. I rolled in to Caltech around 1:30 pm, so far so good. Took a campus tour, met some fellow pre-frosh, chilled with some students, all that jazz (actually the Jazz Band doesn't play until 4:30...hmm probably should get going...). Anyway, this is just a small update (more to come) so here's a sample of the first batch of photos.


The oh so famous canon.


Of course.


Ze library.


...&amp;</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/04/hello-from-caltech.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-2479901782309942175</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-28T00:06:00.524-04:00</atom:updated><title>electric charges are so q...ute (Party with the Coulomb)</title><atom:summary type='text'>Okay, I finished 23-45 (the last semi-required physics problem I will do tonight), so it's time I payed attention to my website.

So how have the past two months been?

Great. Thanks for asking.

So.

I've got a few tees lined up in production and some that have been produced but not posted (I can feel your anticipation building up already...). They should all be ready before I head to Caltech </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/03/electric-charges-are-so-qute-party-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-8098840039001173417</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-25T16:15:54.061-05:00</atom:updated><title>Taking Friday off.</title><atom:summary type='text'>I just got out of school a little while ago and am siting at the brand new marble window counter at the local coffee shop (which fortunately has wifi!). Within the past fourty-five minutes off my school-ular freedom, I've managed to give a ride to a guy around my age who had taken the bus from Vista to get to his girlfriend's house a couple miles away from the bus stop, witness a man feeding his </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/01/taking-friday-off.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-3416898693247405980</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-20T00:38:29.382-05:00</atom:updated><title>Stick this!</title><atom:summary type='text'>Call in the next 15 billion minutes and with every blondegeek tee you will receive a BLONDEGEEEK STICKER!!!

Stack 1 of 6


You can stick them anywhere!

Even on sacred Mac objects!

: )</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/01/stick-this.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-1810448962870252026</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-17T00:35:43.395-05:00</atom:updated><title>Brushing bunnies</title><atom:summary type='text'>If you're a fan of blondegeek on facebook, you've already been made well aware of this but because I am just so darn happy about this I'm going to say it again: my first facebook app is up and running! Unfortunately, I can not list it in the app directory until at least 5 people are using it but that shouldn't be a problem for too long...right guys?

But besides scripting up a storm this </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/01/brushing-bunnies.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-7276568739983436270</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-16T00:38:31.417-05:00</atom:updated><title>Success!</title><atom:summary type='text'>Alas! I figured out what was going hay-wire with my Facebook application code! Now, I can finish up all the program functionality and start on the aesthetics, which will be quite a task in itself.

You know how the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" peeps have their "You might be a Redneck jokes"? Well, today in school my mind wasn't really focused on school stuff but instead business: t-shirt designs, </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/01/success.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-4014996007913502598</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-14T20:26:43.530-05:00</atom:updated><title>Tidying up</title><atom:summary type='text'>Last week I spent some time filling in the little gaps and missing pieces that needed to be attended to around the site (EXCEPT THE INDEX PAGE - which I am convinced with ever be the bane of my existence *Mrs. Critchley pats me on the back for using a vocabulary word*). My blog now has a sparkly and shiny RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed that you can post to your tripped out google homepage, </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2008/01/tidying-up.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-2160345881167328184</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-25T17:25:49.933-05:00</atom:updated><title>&lt;&lt;-  (look it's a tree!)</title><atom:summary type='text'>A very Merry Christmas to ya'll out there! I think it's just about one of the most amusing holidays out there since every family has there own traditions with decorations, food, family chaos, and such. As far as my family goes, Christmas was really a big deal when I was little (Although, I was always suspicious of this "Santa Claus" figure. I would leave a letter for him with his cookies and milk</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2007/12/look-its-tree.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-6114047304152834972</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-10T19:02:30.576-05:00</atom:updated><title>Just another manic Monday...</title><atom:summary type='text'>Here's an honest representation of what's on my mind.
</atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2007/12/just-another-manic-monday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-4267463276028194685</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-11-03T12:43:29.329-04:00</atom:updated><title>My world's (was) on fire, how 'bout yours?</title><atom:summary type='text'>Alas, this comes a bit late, but I do hope that everyone in SoCal whose eyes have peeped upon this page once or twice (and their families) are well. My family and their houses are fine, but one of my friends did lose their house from the Fallbrook fire. Maddy, although I cannot perhaps understand the scope of your loss, I am greatly saddened by it and hope that if you need ANYTHING that you will </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2007/11/my-worlds-was-on-fire-how-bout-yours.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-4740822560986111269</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-10-04T20:43:49.361-04:00</atom:updated><title>An easy going Thursday...</title><atom:summary type='text'>Well, Hello! Hope things are well with all of you. I'm currently printing out envelopes and papers for my teacher recommendations and watching my rabbits (those wascally wabbits!) hop around the backyard (and fo course writing this). This week has been pretty mellow so far; there hasn't been much homework and I didn't even have work today! Hopefully things will stay at least some what like they </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2007/10/easy-going-thursday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-9062976092656582975</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-09-20T21:23:11.111-04:00</atom:updated><title>w00t! Commissions!</title><atom:summary type='text'>This month has been a splendid one for blondegeek offline. "Offline? What do you mean?" you may ask. Private commissions, that's what I mean! After completing a commission for my high school's ASB (a very lovely tree design crafted by my 1337 friend Tahnee (click here for her website) blondegeek has received 4 more commissions from around the school: another one for ASB and the rest for Model </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2007/09/w00t-commissions.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-7550904450609285946</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-09-01T23:31:25.687-04:00</atom:updated><title>School has started and it's 100 degrees!</title><atom:summary type='text'>School has started. Busy as hell. What's new?

My schedule is seamless, but I do kinda miss having lunch at school with everyone. I'm completely missing out since I can technically stay on Mondays, Fridays and every other Wednesday, but that still not everyday.

I finally finished my beauteous Star Trek quilt!...except for the quilting (sewing the 3 layers together) part. After sewing the sides </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2007/09/school-has-started-and-its-100-degrees.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14034503.post-7772867680804203748</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-08-16T00:44:41.148-04:00</atom:updated><title>I &lt;3 Howard Roark</title><atom:summary type='text'>I've been reading the Fountainhead for upcoming AP Eng. Composition and it's probably one of the best books I've ever read. Ayn Rand's words are so sharp and fitting; there's nothing extra or fluffy surrounding or weaving through her sentence. Her characters (one of these being the protagonist, Howard Roark) have very pronounced personalities and portray several ideal and examples of her </atom:summary><link>http://www.blondegeek.net/blog/2007/08/i-3-howard-roark.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tess)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>