CORe Digest

January 27th 2006

Dear Friends,



I’d like to express gratitude to the members of the Class of 2009. I had the pleasure of seeing some of you in your ICB studio class today, and it made me remember what it was like to be at Olin when it was still that new to me. You’re a lot like we were then, and in some ways I envy you—not for the reasons you always hear about having courses that have been taught before, but for the energy and undying optimism that so many of you possess. Qualities which, I’m sorry to say, we could use more of in the upper classes of Olin students. Our passion for life and for Olin should come from curiosity and a sense of fun, not driven by cynicism and frustration. I hope we can all remember how we used to be able to look on the bright side.



Now, many of you might be thinking: it’s easy for Mikecurtis to tell us to be optimistic as he sits, faceless and insolated in CORedigestland away from the harsh realities of life at Olin: scheduling our own worktime, living isolated suites in East Hall, getting paper cuts... for God’s sake, Dylan Sanders-Garrett was pronounced dead yesterday in SCOPE!



To that I say that I shall cast off the mask of Digest editorship and show my face to y’all for public scrutiny (Figure 1).



I’d also like to thank everyone who has given feedback on the CORe Digest, either in person, via email, or via the CORe Mid-year feedback survey. I take all the feedback seriously, and use it to make decisions about the format and content. I do my best to navigate conflicting advice for the Digest, and I hope everyone can enjoy what they like about it, and forgive the parts they don’t. Please keep it coming! There are still a whole mess of Digests left for me, and I want to know how to make things better.



As always, thanks for reading,



-Mike

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Michael W. Curtis

Vice President of Communication