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So here we are in China!!! I guess it’s finally beginning to hit me: I’m in China! I am beginning to get over the initial shock: It still seems like NYC Chinatown or Flushing, Queens, to me 😉 On New Years Eve we woke up late, had lunch, and visited the Shanghai Museum. I thought…
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So I’m finally back in Pittsburgh getting ready for my trip to China. I have been debating whether to take my Vonage router/phone with me to China. Theoretically, I should be able to make free calls back to the US from China using Vonage. Hopefully the government isn’t censoring VoIP calls, but you never know.…
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I’m back at home in NYC with family and friends enjoying Christmas. After a long semester (technically speaking, 2 “minis” or quarters) at CMU, it is good to be back home relaxing doing nothing. When else do we have time to indulge ourselves in watching the extended version of Lord of the Rings? I still…
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Yes, I just got back from Target doing some last-minute Xmas purchases. I was amazed how packed the place was with fellow procrastinators. Well, I had a good excuse: b-school. If it weren’t for finals and winter break, I wouldn’t have even known that it was Christmas time so soon. Last thing I remembered was…
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Not having done any exercise in a long time, I decided to play racquetball with my friend, Arash. In the back of my mind I was thinking, hmm, probably not a good sport to pick up the day before a final. Anyway, I needed some exercise and something to get my mind off schoolwork. So…
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I am joining the Tepper “Doing Business In China” program and am scheduled to visit China during the first two weeks of the new year! I will be in Shanghai over New Years and will be visiting Beijing during the course of our trip. Let me know where are good places to eat! 😉 More…
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The MIT Pittsburgh Elevator Pitch event was held tonight at the Pittsburgh Golf Club, just a few blocks from the Carnegie Mellon campus. It was an entertaining event. Some 15 entrepreneurs pitched their company ideas to a panel of judges. The panelists then provided feedback and voted yes/maybe/no if they would give them a meeting…
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Welcome to my new website. My old site definitely needed some new content and I think this cool blogging tool by WordPress is the answer. I will be writing my thoughts and sharing my experiences on this weblog periodically, so if you are interested in learning more about what it’s like to attend Tepper or…
David Mantilla 