Jess K. '10 | March 09, 2008
"The Sam Survey"
I am RIDICULOUSLY hosed this week (three exams, a problem set, a lab report, a t-shirt design, a poster design, a UROP proposal, an EMS elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam..), but I haven't posted at all in March, and if I stopped posted entirely while I was hosed it really doesn't look like I'd put up my next entry to until about a few weeks after I graduate. Also, I made fun of Ben for not posting since, oh, I dunno, before Snively posted his first entry. His first entry, might I add, of like eight billion. Snively is totally making me look bad.
The only thing that makes it worse is that I have two entries on hold that I really want to write, but can't, because I'm only allowing myself a ten minute study break before I have to go back to reading six chapters for my first exam on Tuesday. So, there'll be an entry responding to your questions from last entry, and the Burton 1 Cribs entry about the different rooms on Burton 1 soon, I promise.
Because Ben did it last summer, and because my blog bio is essentially the same one I wrote in my first entry as a blogger, I recently decided to write a new blog bio. Not only that, but I decided to write a survey. It would be mind-blowing, I decided. It would have all those questions you always wondered but never wanted to ask, like my favorite kind of chocolate bite-sized candy or my favorite Guitar Hero. It would totally win all of Ben's surveys.
However, I ran into a wall while trying to write it, and so I requested help from Sam, whose mind is a creative vesicle of survey questions just waiting to be tapped. And so I tapped that. His mind, I mean. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you: The Sam Survey.
(Questions written with help from Sam)
Name: Jess
Major: 9 (Brain and Cognitive Science)
Year at MIT: 2010
Residence: Burton-Conner (Burton 1)
Previous Residences: San Francisco, Next House (3rd East), Burton 2
Extracurricular Activities: MIT-EMS, MedLinks, ESG (5.12 TA), Dance Troupe, and UROPing in the Gabrieli lab
Favorite class taken freshman spring: 5.12 (Organic Chemistry I)
Favorite Thai restaurant in Cambridge: Pepper Sky
Favorite animal: Dinosaur
Favorite chocolate bite-sized candy: Toss up between peanut m&m's and peanut butter m&m's
Favorite Guitar Hero: Guitar Hero II
Favorite kind of eggs: Omelettes, scrambled (either with pepper or cheddar cheese), hard boiled, over easy, in that order
Record for number of grapes held in mouth at one time: 21 (they were big grapes)
Favorite flavor of gummy bear: Green, closely followed by red
Favorite fabric softener: Bounce (not to be confused with the Gwyneth Paltrow movie)
Favorite Arcade Fire lyric: "If you want something, don't ask for nothing! If you want nothing, don't ask for something!" -Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
Favorite member of Penn & Teller: Teller
Favorite German word: Schmetterling
Favorite state quarter: Toss up between Oklahoma and Wisconsin
Most recent grocery list: Cheese (feta, parmesan), tortillas, salad, vegetable broth, bread, leeks, basil, Go-Gurt, instant ramen, microwaveable curry
Favorite combination of colors for argyle: Light blue, brown, grey
Favorite line of the T: The caves of the green line always makes me feel like I'm at Disneyland
Song used as the opening credits of your movie: The Shins's cover of "We Will Become Silhouettes"
Favorite accountant from The Office: Kevin
Favorite kind of kick: Roundhouse
Favorite piece of EMT terminology: Spontaneous pneumothorax, or "sucking chest wound"
Best Scrabble word: "SQUEEZE"
Favorite pencil: Papermate Sharpwriter. They look like real pencils, but they're mechanical. They make me feel like I'm staying true to my roots
High score on Helicopter: 1433
Favorite building: 46
Favorite palindrome: Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog
Favorite non-Beaver athletic mascot: UCSC Banana Slugs
Favorite Burger King commercial: This one
Anticipated method of death: "In a breakdancing contest. That turns into a riot." -Sam
What have YOU always wanted to ask? Comment your questions in. (By the way, I probably won't change my blog bio. I kind of like the old one. Sorry, Sam!)
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Sorry!....FIRST!!..:P
Posted by: Nihar on March 9, 2008 01:56 PM
My favorite German word would have to be Weltschmerz.
Why do you like Guitar Hero II the most?
Posted by: Laser on March 9, 2008 01:58 PM
Welcome Back. Just how you do all this in such a short time?
BTW, First...Decisions coming soon :)(
Posted by: Libin Daniel on March 9, 2008 02:01 PM
Why?? Message in a Bottle, Sweet Child of Mine, Jessica, Tattooed Love Boys... is that even a question??
Posted by: Jess on March 9, 2008 02:01 PM
what does Schmetterling mean?
Posted by: MiniPocketsized on March 9, 2008 02:03 PM
Lol, But Guitar Hero III has Dragonforce! *loser*
IDK, With Brawl just released, I unfortunately have to put GH to rest for now.
Posted by: Laser on March 9, 2008 02:10 PM
Favorite Scrabble Word: QAT, or JINX.
Posted by: Oasis on March 9, 2008 02:18 PM
Woww it would be interesting to see an entry on how exactly you manage to complete ALL of those things in just a week!
Posted by: Anonymous on March 9, 2008 02:20 PM
@ MiniPocketsized: I believe it means butterfly.
I personally feel that Remidemi and Bluttenblot are the coolest German words. Remidemi is a little bit cooler, since it means shindig in English, but they are both really fun to say.
Posted by: Anonymous on March 9, 2008 02:20 PM
Wow, that palindrome pwns.
Posted by: Anonymous on March 9, 2008 02:27 PM
Hi Jess ! So my question is : what do you choose between a cat that can sing and dance the macarena, and a dog that has Sylar's powers ? Just wondering...
Posted by: Isshak on March 9, 2008 02:39 PM
This Asian girl is cute!
Posted by: Adi on March 9, 2008 03:20 PM
Ooo, I love to put feta cheese on various things (except no one else in my family seems to appreciate it, sadly). The flavor 'tis amazing.
Posted by: φέτα Girl on March 9, 2008 03:49 PM
Moosebutter or Wierd Al?
Posted by: Leko on March 9, 2008 03:54 PM
Jess May I be the first to point out that high score for helicopter is sad. I just tried playing it a while ago and so far I'm at 1108.
Posted by: Shauna on March 9, 2008 04:10 PM
@ Issak: I'm a dog person.
@ Leko: Uh, I guess Weird Al. Who's Moosebutter?
@ Shauna: I know. I suck at it. :(
Posted by: Jess on March 9, 2008 04:19 PM
favorite home appliance?
favorite allotropic form of carbon?
Posted by: Sh1fty on March 9, 2008 04:25 PM
Oh okay ! And I was going to ask you about your favorite college, but the answer to that is obvious...Harvard of course... ;)
Posted by: Isshak on March 9, 2008 04:41 PM
Favorite Mythbuster?
Favorite Organic Compound?
And most importantly: Favorite Muffin?
Posted by: Josh on March 9, 2008 05:17 PM
GHII FTW! That and Rock Band...I like how RB has the classics, like the Stones and the Who.
I've got shows all this week, so I probably won't get a chance to play, or else I would totally be rokkin'...if only to distract myself from SIX DAYS :-\
In other news, this daylight savings time nonsense is royally messing with my brain. It's like being jetlagged...but without the jet.
Posted by: Michael on March 9, 2008 05:37 PM
After having spent 30 minutes with it, my high score on helicopter is 1672. Well, it actually was tough to make it and I almost broke my keyboard when I reached 1413 and then checked Jess's result :D
Posted by: Vytautas on March 9, 2008 06:14 PM
Favorite shoes?
Favorite Book?
How long you can hula hoop?
Posted by: Steph on March 9, 2008 06:23 PM
Favorite line of the T: The caves of the green line always --> makes
Your grammar is ATROCIOUS.
This public service announcement brought to you by a high school junior studying for the writing portion of the SAT.
Also, there is no human capable of finishing Through the Fire and the Flames on Expert. I swear.
Posted by: David on March 9, 2008 08:28 PM
Ignore the random kingdom hearts video, its just the best way i found to listen to it online. I guess it kind of goes along with it...
Posted by: Leko on March 9, 2008 08:35 PM
Indeed David, no human. More proof of my mortality :(
I have, however, managed to 5 star all but 3 songs on expert, and am ranked in the top 2000 for my expert career. Well, that was back when GHIII was in, but now its all about Brawl.
Posted by: Laser on March 9, 2008 10:25 PM
pepper sky is AMAZING.
Posted by: milena '11 on March 9, 2008 10:53 PM
@ Vytautas
Just reached the same score as you, 1672.
But some days ago I found a really cool game, rather harder than this one: Spin the Black Circle.
Posted by: Carlos on March 9, 2008 11:24 PM
Spin the Black Circle? That's a Pearl Jam song!
Posted by: Laser on March 9, 2008 11:33 PM
Hmmm...yes. But's also a game. By the way, I reached the last level, 24.
Posted by: Carlos on March 9, 2008 11:44 PM
Hey, this is pretty fun. Looks I have something to have fun with until decisions.
Posted by: Laser on March 10, 2008 12:13 AM
Glad that you liked it, but I'm getting frustated on the last level... better get some sleep.
Posted by: Carlos on March 10, 2008 12:21 AM
Laser: If you're having issues with mortality, you should go wiki Quantum Immortality. I just found out about it, and I'm so excited. Also, I'm immortal, in some universe (actually, in infinitely many universes). As are you.
Also, I apparently really suck at games. I tried playing helicopter and only got to 570! Haha. Then again, I didn't play for very long... I get distracted quickly
Posted by: Lauren on March 10, 2008 12:56 AM
I started playing the helicopter plane but couldn't figure out why it didn't work even though I was pressing my left mouse button. Then I remembered I am left handed and I had to use my right button, oh well it was pretty funny.
-sam r.
Posted by: Sam R. '12 on March 10, 2008 03:52 AM
Favorite German word (written): Schifffahrt.
Favorite German word (spoken): Geil (for the double-meaning. Uh, don't use that one with adults unless you know the less-used meaning.)
Posted by: AwayfromHome on March 10, 2008 04:44 AM
Thanks Lauren, while immortality has never been one of my foremost goals, it's been lodged in my brain for a while. I'll give it a go.
Posted by: Laser on March 10, 2008 11:10 AM
konnichi ha!
LQ8 = ? [ :( || :)]
Posted by: Anonymous on March 10, 2008 02:09 PM
Oh man, I don't know how many hours I wasted playing Copter back in sophomore year. Ah, those were the days...
Speaking of copter games, have you ever tried ROFLcopter?
Posted by: asm on March 11, 2008 02:03 AM
jess kim is the best distraction from work.
well, not really, her blog is.
Posted by: omar on March 12, 2008 10:42 PM
My favorite scrabble word is CHUTZPAH.
*note that it is not only worth a million points, but also the perfect length for you useing all or your letters in one turn*
Posted by: zach on March 12, 2008 11:41 PM
favorite cake: AMRITACAKE
Posted by: Anonymous on March 13, 2008 04:24 AM
Hi, Jess! Can we chill in Boston some time?
Posted by: brian on March 17, 2008 01:20 PM
Favorite German word?
Verklemmt.
As in "After I realized that I would be applying to MIT next year, I got a little verklemmt."
Posted by: Claire on March 18, 2008 02:03 PM
