Polls
From NH4
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2007-2008
Favorite board quote?
Winner
Christine: Do you want me to drive?
Clifton: No, I'd rather have Randy asleep at the wheel.
Board Quote MVP
Clifton
Old nicknames?
- Jeff: Ketchup
- Richard: Chard
- Vaz: The V-Train
- Randy: Custard and Lightpole
- Clifton: Big Red Dog
- Vu: Fu
- Lana: Lana Banana
- Jessie: Sushi
Salma Hayek or Eva Mendes?
Salma Hayek
- Vu
- Yin
- Dan
Eva Mendes
- Richard
- Gama
- Steph
Which of your friends would you most like to see on a reality TV show?
- Dan: His friend Jady on The Bachelor (for reasons that would be obvious if you knew him in high school) -OR- himself on American Idol (because he'd choose songs like Supper's Ready and Careful With That Axe Eugene, wear costumes like Peter Gabriel, and generally be as eccentric as possible).
- Miranda: NH4 girls on America's Next Top Model -OR- Yin on The Bachelor
2006-2007
Favorite board quote?
Winner
Steph: Jeff, can you hand me my computer?
Randy: Wait, you're going to be in my bed with another computer?
Steph: Are you calling yourself a computer?
Board Quote MVP
Steph
What position would you want in President Yin's cabinet?
I appoint myself chief booty inspector! -Fu
Dan: I think this bagel passes the quality assurance test.
Yushan: That's a donut.
- Fu: The Notorious Booty Inspector General
- Joey: Chief Executive Masseur
- Miranda: Chief Enforcer
- Randy: Minister of Relations
- Kathleen: Minister of Cute Things
- Dan: Minister of Comestible Quality Assurance
- Christine: Country Bum
Do you condone Yin's behavior?
I condone my own behavior! -Yin
Yes
- Yin
- Dan (unless Project 11 gets out of hand)
- Fu (ditto)
- Jeff
- Christine (apathetic)
- Randy
No
- Vu (not dirty enough)
- Sergio (not dirty enough)
- Steph (too many girls)
Favorite poll?
Poll for REAL MEN/Poll for REAL WOMEN
- Vu
- Randy
- Steph
- Yushan
- Joey
- Danielle
Where should Dan go to graduate school?
- Miranda
Pam or Karen?
- Yin
- Fu
Would you marry the king/queen of the hobos?
- Jeff
- Kathleen
Do you condone Yin's behavior?
- Doug
What position would you want in President Yin's cabinet?
- Dan
Would you marry the king/queen of the hobos?
Yes
- Dan
- Jeff
- Yin
- Fu
- Sunny
- Kathleen
- Doug
- Siamrut
No
- Stephanie (also wouldn't marry anyone who doesn't have the potential to make $100K/year, world's best competitive eater, world's best pogo stick jumper, King of the Unemployed, King of Djibouti, Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey, Louie, a guy who's perfect in every way except that he's a garbage man (because he wants to be) and makes $25k a year, the world's smartest garbageman from Dilbert comics, or a waiter; didn't rule out world's best poker player, King of Denmark, or Randy)
- Vu
- Sergio
- Ying
- Dennis
- Miranda
- Fan
- Leo
Pam or Karen?
Clifton: Karen is very considerate.
Vu: How is being on top considerate?
Clifton: You don't gotta do anything.
Pam
- Fu
- Jeff
- Dan
- Kathleen
- Yin
- Kaitlin
- Fan
Karen
- Vu
- Joey "Gladwell lover" Zhou
- Joe
- Siamrut
- Sergio
- Tian (cus she's cuter)
- Christine (later said "I don't know what I was thinking. Pam is definitely hotter.")
- RDC
- Leo
- Clifton
Where should Dan go to graduate school?
Princeton
- Dan
- Leo
- Stephanie
- Vu
MIT
- Fan
- Christine
Caltech
- Joe
I don't know, but I just wanted to say that Harvard sucks
- Jeff
- Bri: "Thumbs up!"
None
No one voted for this option, but Vu did had a suggestion for what Dan could do if he did decide not to go to graduate school: become a hobo, do physics problems for food, write a book about it, and then go on Oprah.
I'm not confident that he will complete the PE requirement
(no votes)
Other (specify)
- Sharon: He should start his own graduate school
How much would you spend on an engagement ring...
Unfortunately, it seems that the results of this poll were not recorded. Please vote again.
... if you were a graduate student?
- Joe: $500 (ebay)
- Dan: $750 (changed from $200)
- Jeff: $5000
- Vu: $5000
... if you made $50k/year?
- Joe: $500 (ebay)
- Dan: $2000 (changed from $1000)
- Jeff: $10000
- Vu: $10000
... if you made $200k/year?
- Joe: $500 (ebay)
- Dan: $5000
- Jeff: $30000
- Vu: $40000
Nicole Kidman or Salma Hayek?
Nicole Kidman won.
Scarlett Johansen or Jessica Biel?
Jessica Biel won.
2002-2003
Profiles
Tian He
| Interest | sports(baskteball, running...), astronomy, photography, kip-ups |
|---|---|
| Greatest summer experience | ghp |
| Most emabarrassing moment | sitting on a fence post and fallying flat on my face while waiting in line at Disney, in front of my track team, not to mention hundreds of other ppl. |
| favorite nh4 moment | when i learned the kip up |
| favorite food | la verdi's buffalo chicken sub |
| favorite local restaurant | la verdi's |
| greatest fear | that i'll be walking in the streets and get crushed by a piano falling from 5 stories up and live and become a vegetable. Oh and dying a virgin. |
| proudest achievement | doing the kip up of course |
| Most likely reason to be in the fifth floor lounge | I walk out of my room and there it is. |
| why are you at MIT | PARTY! |
| languages you speak | Pig Latin ( not fluent), Spanish ( not fluent), 100 word french vocabulary (definitely not fluent), Chinese, English. |
| most impressive dare | drinking a pint of soy sauce at one time. |
| dreams that have come true | I'm at a party school. |
| what about MIT surprised you? | BBQ everyday |
| favorite word | YUMMYLICIOUS |
| 8 PM on Friday | Usually Eating at La Verdi's |
| Ideal room in NH4 | binh's room. |
Lisa Huang
| interests: | Playing and teaching piano, Tennis, ice-skating, dancing (ballroom, modern, hip-hop, clubbing, etc. Basically all kinds.), playing pool, drawing and sculpting people, baking, taking strolls around the Boston area (esp. along Charles River which is really beautiful, Boston Public Garden, etc.), and getting to know new ppl |
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| favorite quote: | (gonna think of 1 later) in the meantime, heheh amuse yourself with these nh4 quotes =) http://mit.edu/lahuang/www/Lisa/NH4LoungeQuotes.htm |
| greatest summer experience: | This past summer was the greatest one ever. I was able to do so many things. Went on vacation in China for the first time. Lots to tell about that and all the places I visited there. I'd definitely like to go there again next break. After the China Trip, I was in the Boston area for the whole summer working. I spent a lot of time really getting to know Boston. Visited touristy places and went to many special events every weekend and even during the week like Shakespeare plays, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V, in Boston Commons, ushered for Blue Man Group, Chinatown Festival, Kiss FM Concert, Several Boston Pops Concerts, July 4th Preview Concert, July 4 Fireworks, Boston Harbor Island Cruises, New England Aquarium and IMAX, Haymarket, Freedom Trail, Children's Museum, Museum of Science, and more. You should check these out while you are around Boston. I also went to several cool restaurants and dessert places.. yum! It was awesome hanging around Boston over the summer! |
| most embarrassing moment | wow, there are few, gotta think of one |
| favorite nh4 moment: | Holiday Dinner. Excellent dishes made by NH4 ppl. Exciting to see what ppl get for Secret Santa! Last year's was really funny with Pee and Julie as Santas!!! =D |
| personal talent | piano, art |
| favorite food | I eat anything. basically favorites are all asian food- Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese,... |
| favorite local restaurant | McCormick and Schmicks Seafood Restaurant so far |
| greatest fear | ppl with smelly feet |
| proudest achievement | 2nd or 3rd place- Showering in a term after Binh. |
1996-1997
Where do dougnut holes come from?
O Bitter Donut
Donut, covered
With NaCl, not C6H12O6.
The Hole longs to understand,
"Why can't you be half
Of our whole?"
"Quiet, Hole."
The Donut is Angry.
"A poem is no essay.
This doesn't even rhyme."
It circles the Hole,
And the Hole is trapped.
Falling into the darkness.
Falling.
Falling.
I doubt that you want to know how they are actually made because you probably already know, but I figure I will tell you what I seem to believe is true. There is doughnut dough. The dough is laid out flat on a sheet. There are cookie cutter like things, probably called "Doughnut Cutters," that have two concentric spheres made out of some metal alloy. Well what they used to do back in the day was to remove the toroidal shape and continue to put the glaze, etc. on it while the rest of the sheet was rekneeded and formed into another sheet to be cut out again. Some genius must have thought one day, "Oh, look we have a little piece that is bite sized here. If we glaze that sucker and cook it then we can charge people 10 times what it's worth because it is convenient to pop in your mouth." I'm sure this would clear up any doubts you might have had as to how they are made but you probably knew all that anyway.
Went to Dunkin' Donuts today to see if they would tell me what I just told you. First person could hardly speak English and mumbled something about them being doughnuts. I dunno, didn't ask. Second person looked at me like I was some knowledge-crazed maniac who didn't realize he was asking a person who probably couldn't even count up to 60, which was the number of doughnut holes I should have received from him, and just stood there and sadly said, "I don't know." Finally asked another guy. I proposed to him my idea, and he said, "Yeah. Yeah. That's how we do it." I think he was just trying to get me out of the store, and so he brushed me off, but i think there was some truth in his reply even though he didn't want me there. Then when I went to the hardware store. On the way back, this dog wanted some doughnut holes and kept sniffing my bag. I decided not to give it to him because i didn't know the doggy version of the Heimlich.
"Eat more doughnuts."
- Naperville North High School Cross Country and Track Motto
Why? The world is round and so is a doughnut. The hole comes from the hole in the logic. I think that's as sufficient an explanation as the topic deserves.
A donuton and an antidonuton (elementary donut particles) are collided with each other in a donuton accelerator. If they are out of phase, they cancel with each other and produce a donut with a hole. If they are in phase, they reinforce and produce a jelly-filled donut.
Mike T.!...Here goes the legend...
Mike T. and the Pillsbury Dough Boy were making pastries in the kitchen. Pillsbury Dough Boy decided to run off somewhere, leaving behind his half finished sugar-powdered-cherry-creme-filled pastry lying on the counter.
Mike T., mistook the pastry for the Pillsbury Dough Boy, decided to poke it, so he could wake the Dough Boy up, but it didn't. So Mike T. poked and poked until BURST!. He poked too hard, and red stuff flew all over the place leaving a big hole where he had poked. Mike T., thinking that he had killed the dough boy, started to cry. At that moment, the Dough Boy returned from his break and started to giggle.
Mike T., a bit embarrassed and relieved said to the Dough Boy "'Do nut' do that to me again." Mike T. swore from that day on to never make donuts again for as long as he lived, and he did (always cookies, pies, cake, but never donuts), but the Dough Boy thought the "hole" idea was pretty cool and made a fortune.
And that's where donuts came from and how the hole came to be!
The human race is made up mostly of rejects from an alien planet. Upon testing at our births, they realized that we were incapable of using our brains to their highest potential. So we as a people are not smart enough to answer such a question, and one should not ask such a question.
Homer Simpson = donut hole.
Q.E.D.
[Editor's note: Huh? Shower this man.]
There are people who make doughnuts. Then their are the people who don't make doughnuts. Some squirrels like nuts. You shouldn't feed them doughnuts. Doughnut holes are worse because the squirrels try to eat them whole and end up choking and dying. Well, unless you know how to do the squirrel version of the Heimlich maneuver. I don't know how to do it, so I improvised. I stepped on the squirrel and, low and behold, the doughnut hole popped out of the little squirrel. Then he limped along on his merry way, still hungry, though, so I gave him some nuts. Then he was happy and smiled at me. He's my new friend. I think I'll name him Joe. I think Joe is a good name for a squirrel. Oh wait, I think I was supposed to talk about doughnut holes. Oh well, that will have to come in another email...
The intuitively obvious answer: the holes are a superior class of grade A, USDA approved ambrosia exclusively manufactured by a secret society in the guise of nh4. Place your order now. Act quickly, Receive a free dozen and a no obligation, no purchase necessary application for membership in the incestuous community.
In the womb of a mother donut, a donut fetus is nourished through its dobillical cord. When the fully-developed donut is born, its cord is cut off. After a while, the stub falls out, and the hole that held it is what is commonly referred to as the donut hole. Mmm. Makes donuts really appetizing now...
Donut Holes decide who goes and who stays. The Donut Holes are my master. I have been chosen. Ooooooh.
And of course they are related, as are all things under the sun, to Cheryl, as denoted on the family tree.
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Donut Hole
Top Ten Reasons To Live in NH4
Mark Hochberg
10. House Winks to ensure quality video rentals 9. Ping-Pong and piano playing all night long 8. Lounge around in what could have been an elevator shaft 7. Water fights with Spanish House 6. Two words: Roof Access 5. On a clear day, you can see Fenway Park. On nearly any night, you can see "Citgo" 4. Built on the remains of a Joyce Chen, servicing humanity from day one 3. We can say "Vardebedia" 10 times fast; We even know what it means! 2. Distinguished alumni that never, ever go away 1. Awesome people, awesome parties, awesome stories, awesome times: What more could you ask for?
Cindy Su
10. Brag about the a/c you never use 9. Meet all the leeches from House 3 8. All those midnight excursions to... MacGregor Convenience 7. We win all our IM games, especially Octathon (Yeah, sure) 6. The mile-long walk to campus keeps you in good shape 5. The elevator-less floors keep you in good shape 4. The house tutor would give Arnold Schwarzenneger a run for his money 3. Next House Dining (well, maybe not...) 2. Live with people with seemingly unpronounceable names like Zhelinrentice and Xiaomin 1. It's like living in a co-ed fraternity without the reputation and all the... well, nevermind
Phil Sarin
10. Our social chairs are on speed 9. Our president is on crack 8. You could be president one day 8. We cook better than Lobdell 7. Our bathrooms have that cool door 6. We are largely course 6 (no time for fake ones) 5. We have no course 14s in the house 4. We elect people to bake free food for the house 3. We keep MacGregor afloat 2. Our house tutor is a stunt double for Arnold 1. Our freshmen shower very frequently
Ray Szeto
10. The Frats won't take me 9. It's better than living in lab 8. We have running hot water 7. I'm too lazy to walk all the way to Next House 6. I was following a beautiful girl during Rush and she seemed to disappear around here 5. Mike A. told me this New House Dorm was really closely knit (gee, I was a chum) 4. I was screwed by the lottery system 3. We don't have roaches 2. Because we all love Mike T.! 1. It's Haus 4! Need I say more?
Damon Lewis
10. No roaches 9. Nice clean rooms 8. We're not all Course 6 7. Snow Football 6. No roaches 5. Spontaneity 4. Kitchens 3. Dedicated Cookie Chairs 2. No roaches 1. 'Cuz I live here!
Zhelinrentice Scott
1. New House 4 is cleaner 2. New House 4 is quieter 3. Mike doesn't live here anymore 4. Be a 5th floor lounge bum 5. Zhe lives here! (my personal favorite) 6. Direct TV 7. All the Good Food! 8. Freshman can have a single 9. Mike T. is cool 10. Ohm...
Chris Toepel
10. If you're ever too tired to take a shower someone will carry you in 9. X Files is not just a show, its a religion here 8. You can find someone to play Scrabble with any hour of the day 7. People actually play Mortal Kombat in the halls 6. The house mascot: the lounge rat 5. We have our own meal plan: Tostitos and Salsa! 4. Whipped cream fights with plenty of backup ammunition 3. We invest much money in high quality entertainment systems (Scrabble boards) 2. Spontaneous Macarena break-outs at every New House 4 party 1. Two words: few Canadians
Daniel Weber
1. Dancing on the rooftop during thunderstorms keeps the blood moving 2. Ample supply of green walls provides good camoflauge during hunting season 3. No end to the constant acrostics 4. Incinerating you is of no interest to us 5. Subliminal messages everywhere 6. Ammonia fights provide minutes and minutes of enjoyment 7. Galatians 5:20 8. Otitis-free for almost twenty-five years! 9. Dead graduate students slide down trash chute for fast, clean disposal
Ashwini Deshpande
10. Vardebedia - Americas smallest unprotected border 9. HazeComm - to fix freshmen attitude problems 8. Mike T. - the strength of Arnold and the cooking skills of Betty Crocker 7. New House - no roaches 6. New House 4 - no rats 5. Gratuitous violence and sex every weekend (on DSS) 4. 50% Course 6 - we've all turned to the dark side 3. Luise is gone now 2. Two words - MacGregor Tunnel 1. The Hartley Dance is part of our culture
Hernan Mercado-Corujo
10. People think pizza is actually healthy 9. You can get (or lose) money during March Madness 8. You can find what MacGregor sells on people's doors 7. Surround Sound 6. 50% course 6 5. Next to Spanish House (personal reason, duh!) 4. You get your mail on time (yeah, sure ;) 3. Direct TV 2. Your room can end up full of newspaper 1. Lo dejo a tu imaginacion pues lo mas seguro ni entiendas un carajo de lo que estas leyendo