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    Cooking with Mario, Episode 1 - A Strawberry-Oreo milkshake, heavy on the strawberries.

    This concoction is relatively straight forward.

    What you need:

    - 1 cup of yogurt (strawberry)
    - 1 pound of fresh strawberries (the entire package)
    - a few scoops of cookies and cream ice cream
    - a blender

    step 1. add them in the order shown above: yogurt, strawberries, ice cream. no milk is needed to thin it out. 
    step 2. blend. 
    step 3. enjoy.  

     

    Posted via email from Mario C. Delgado

    Architecture Field Trip- New York City, April 2010

    University Center Front Lawn - April 12th, 2010 @ 8:40am

    Goose and Architecture - April 12, 2010

    New York City- April 18th, 2010

    By the Numbers

    One of the most important elements of a graduate school application for architecture is the creative portfolio- a creative book that presents your undergraduate work to the admissions committees. Much like preparing for any educational application, it never hurts to start early.

    1- number of times I went to Five Guys for lunch on a day I was working on my portfolio
    2.5- number of hours I lost in productivity due to feeling so sleepy after I went to Five Guys for lunch
    3- number of separate backups made of the portfolio
    5- number of complete design/layout revisions made so far
    6.5- number of weeks that i've dedicated so far on my portfolio design
    9- number of world cup games that I decided to watch instead of working on my portfolio
    9.5- average number of hours spent per day on portfolio
    15- number of projects in portfolio
    21.8- current size, in gigabytes, of all documents that are included in portfolio
    25- number of times an adobe product has crashed on me while I was working on a document
    32- number of times I went to The Goose for Lunch
    40- percent completion of my portfolio as of July 1, 2010
    80- approximate number of pages that my portfolio will be when completed.
    84- cost, in dollars, to print 2 test copies of my portfolio
    240- approximate number of hours, so far, that I have worked on my portfolio
    300- number of hours, over the next 5 months, that I plan on spending to complete my portfolio.
    350- size, in megabytes, of a print-quality PDF of my portfolio.
    1,300- approx. number of songs that i listened to while making my portfolio

    Posted via email from Mario C. Delgado

    Lehigh Cited in WSJ Article on Top 20 Colleges That Offer Best Return on Investment

    Nice little surprise in my inbox this morning:A study on colleges' return on investment listed Lehigh as #12 with an annualized ROI of 11.9%- only 7/10 of a percent off of #1 MIT.Feel free to read the whole article below:

    Top 20 Colleges That Offer Best Return on Investment @ blogs.wsj.com

    Posted via email from Mario C. Delgado