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September 29th 2006

My Fellow Students,



So, the first thing you'll notice about this week's digest is that there isn't an audio version. While I've gotten some positive reviews (and no negative ones), it wasn't quite worth my time this week. If you think it's worth it, let me know -- this is all experimental, after all!



In lieu of an MP3, I spent a few minutes browsing the Toothpaste For Dinner archives at random, and decided to include the first one that made me chuckle. Of course, it's not even that funny. Maybe it's all that Discrete Math which is finally getting to me ...

A couple of other quick reminders:



This week's events:

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:



As always, if you have any questions or want some more information about any of the above events, check the Calendar or drop me a line. That goes for general feedback too!

Sincerely,

Christopher Dellin

Your Vice President of Communication

OSA Project Forum
Help save the world!
OSA will be hosting its 3rd Project Forum on Sunday!  Come talk with us about a project you are working on, and hear about projects that other students are working on.  We will also be planning the OSA Sustainability Mixer (which will include students from Wellesley, Olin, Babson, Brandeis, and MIT, as well as community members from Needham).
 
You might also hear about:
Teaching math to kids
Biodiesel
A water purification system
Connecting Olin with student groups from other schools
 
Sunday
12-2
Dining Hall Mezzanine
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Contact: Ben Salinas
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ASME Student Leadership Seminar at Olin
Olin is hosting the ASME Student Leadership Seminar for District A (New York to Quebec) on Sat, Oct. 28.  Not only that, but Olin students can attend for free!  The day's schedule can be found at

http://districts.asme.org/SLS/MA.htm.  It includes a mini-design challenge, workshops, presentations (including Mark Chang's famous "Improving Your Presentation Skills" presentation), and ice cream!
 
If you're planning on coming, please send an email ASAP saying as much to asme@students.olin.edu.
 
Hope to see you all there!
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Contact: Allison Schmidt
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Friday Service Opportunities!
Soup kitchens and a park cleanup
Community Servings: Friday, October 27th, 4:30-8:45PM
 
Community Servings is an organization that provides free home-delivered meals to people homebound with HIV/AIDS and other acute life-threatening illnesses and cannot shop or cook for themselves. Their goal is to help their clients maintain their health and dignity, provide nutritionally and culturally appropriate meals, preserve the integrity of their family, and send the message that someone cares. You would be helping to make these meals - preparing and packaging the 1300 meals a day that Community Servings serves. Volunteer there next week from 4:30-8:30. E-mail SERV if you'd like to go and visit http://www.servings.org/index.htm for more information.
 
Claxton Field Clean-up: Friday, November 3rd, 3-5PM
 
Claxton Field is a Needham park less than a mile away - it should be familiar to many of you because Open has its Labor Day brunch there every year. Come give back and enjoy the outdoors by cleaning up the park. Gloves, bags, etc. will be provided. E-mail SERV if you'd like to go!
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Contact: Christie
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Yearbook Announces Party Game Winners
The Olin College Yearbook would like to thank all those who participated in the snapshot identification game at the yearbook distribution party.  The winners of the game were Chandra Little, Jeff Moore, and Luis Gutierrez.  They will each receive a 50% discount on a purchase of Volume 4 of the yearbook, which is now on sale.
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Contact: Olin College Yearbook
Anthropology Conference: Student Research Needed
I am looking for anthropology students to present their research at a Boston area student conference in March! Do you have original work from a class or an independent project? Do you want to share it with other students and with professors? The Greater Boston Anthropology Consortium student conference wants you! Three Olin students presented last year, which was Olin's first year in this consortium. Let's keep up the good work! See attached flyer, and contact Caitrin.
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Contact: Caitrin Lynch
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Babson Cruickshank 5k Run
Saturday, October 21

9:00 A.M.
Knight Parking Lot
 
To sign up for the race, which benefits 3 good student groups(Babson Habitat for Humanity, Babson Katrina Relief Fund, and Babson Global Outreach through Entrepreneurship- which a few Olin students are involved with), visit www.babson.edu/raceforshelter.
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Contact: Ben Salinas
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Free Flu Immunization Clinics for Students
Babson College Health Services is sponsoring free flu immunization clinics for Olin and Babson students.  Vaccinations will be given on a first come, first serve basis, as long as the vaccine supply lasts.  You must bring your prox card with you to the clinic. 
 
Dates and times are: 
Tuesday, October 24th from 11am to 1pm in Reynolds 241
Monday, October 30th from 5:30pm to 7:00pm in Trim 201/202
Tuesday,  November 7th from 4:30pm to 6:00pm in Olin Graduate School Building (auditorium)
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Contact: Alison Black
Jewish Campus Service Corps Fellow Visit
What's Jewish about Olin?  find out this Monday (10/23)!  Elissa Klein, your Jewish Campus Service Corps fellow (long name, amazing results), will be hanging out in the campus center, 11:30-1:30, wanting to chat with you and to feed you bagels.  Can't make it?  Let me treat you to coffee sometime!  Email eklein1@babson.edu for good times.
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Contact: Elissa Klein
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Shabbat Dinner at Babson!
SHABBAT DINNER AT BABSON!  Friday, Oct. 20 at 7pm in Reynolds Campus Center.  When is the last time you had home-made chicken soup and Manishewitz?  Please join Babson Hillel for a complimentary Shabbat dinner that couldn't be beat.  (Services are at 6 in Glavin Chapel, if you are so inclined.) RSVP eklein1@babson.edu.
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Contact: Elissa Klein
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Sudanese Refugee Art exhibit at Brandeis
Students in Brandeis anthropology Professor Mark Auslander's course "Museums and Public Memory" have collaboratively curated an exhibition of art by southern Sudanese refugees residing in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. The exhibit is called "Leave the Bones and Catch the Land: Southern Sudanese Art from Kakuma Refugee Camp." Exhibition Opening: Monday, October 23, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in Dreitzer Gallery, Spingold Theater building, Brandeis University.  Thirty paintings help document the experience of thousands of young southern Sudanese who fled the atrocities of Sudan's long-running civil war; the images are nuanced meditations on the nature of home and dispersal, ambivalent encounters with modernity, and prophetic visions of past and future.  Students have worked closely with members of the  southern Sudanese resettled community in the Boston area to develop the exhibition, which incorporates disparate voices and commentaries on the images and the history they represent.
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Contact: Caitrin Lynch
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare[Abridged]
Not this weekend, but next weekend
If you haven't seen FWOP's fall show (or would like to see it again), there will be performances on October 28 and 29 at 8:00 PM in the Auditorium.
 
Tickets are $3.00 for students ($5 for non-students), but if you've been already, you get in free a second time.
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Contact: Ben Salinas
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Away Table: Thailand
Away Table

10/26 12:00 PM, in the dining hall

Robin Maslowski & Laura Stupin talk about Thailand
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Contact: Alex Dorsk
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Interested in a user centered software design project?
A colleague of mine at Harvard is interested in outsourcing the usability testing and interface implementation for her research project to Olin.  This might be done for credit, for pay, or just for fun.  Let me know if you're interested....
 
Join the PASS Research Project!
 
The Provenance-Aware Storage Systems research group has developed an interesting system that collects provenance (lineage) data for processes running on a Linux system.  We are looking for an undergraduate interested in developing a GUI to this massive data store.  The project requires both software development and some research to identify how best to visualize the data.
 
You can find out more about the project at: http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~syrah/pass.
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Contact: Lynn Stein
Job Opportunities: Boston Sports Clubs
Boston Sports Clubs - Wellesley
We are looking for help in our Sports Clubs for Kids department for the following positions:
  • Swim Instructors
  • Sports Specialists
  • Gymnastics Specialists
  • Program Desk Assistants
  • Birthday Party Coordinators
 
We need fall and winter staff. Jobs and trainings start immediately! Flexible hours, competitive salary and free gym membership with employment.
 
Please contact Jonathan at: jonathan.goldstein@town-sports.com or call us at 781-263-5800.  We look forward to hearing from you!
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Contact: Jonathan Goldstein
New Ceramic Studio Drop-in Policy
New Ceramic Studio Drop-in Policy
Located in Sorensen Visual Arts Center
(Also known as the Trim building-location of new Cafeteria)
 
$5.00 per time for Olin/Babson Students
$7.50 per time for staff and faculty
 
Drop in times, offering technical support, and all materials and tools are during open studio hours.
 
Mondays: 10 AM - 11:45, 1:30 - 4 PM
Tuesdays: 1 - 5 PM,  7 - 9 PM
Wednesdays: 10 - 12, 1 - 5 PM, and 6 - 9 PM
Thursdays: 1:30 - 5:30 PM
Fridays: 1 - 4 PM
Saturday and Sunday: to be announced (Probably Saturday afternoon and Sunday Evening)
 
**Looking for Olin work/study person for studio)   
                           
For more information contact Stephanie at sosser@babson.edu or 781-454-7442.
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Contact: Stephanie Osser
Take A Survey - Win a Spring Break Trip, Signed Red Sox Ball, Laptop, and MORE!
The New England Internship Study wants to know your thoughts about internships!
Whether you have participated in an internship or not, you are invited to participate.  To take the survey, click here: http://student.internshipstudy.com.  All survey takers will receive a $25 coupon to VacationOutlet.com, just in time for booking select Spring Break trips!
 
All survey takers will also be entered for a chance to win the following prizes:
  • $500 Gift Certificate; Sponsored by VacationOutlet.com
  • IBM ThinkPad R51e PM 730 (1.6GHz/512MB/40GB/15"TFT/XPP); Sponsored by PC Connection
  • Baseball signed by Tom Caron, Don Orsillo, Jerry Remy, Dennis Eckersley, Jim Rice and Gary DiSarcina; Sponsored by the New England Sports Network
  • $250 Target Gift Card (3 available!); Sponsored by Target
  • Bose SoundDock; Sponsored by Bose Corporation
  • $100 Staples Gift Card; Sponsored by Staples
  • Catered lunch for six delivered to your location; Sponsored by Au Bon Pain
  • Book of Lists (50 available!): The Book of Lists contains valuable research about hundreds of employers in the Boston area. The book is ideal for internship and job seekers. Sponsored by the Boston Business Journal
  • Pizza Party and Sandwich Platter; Sponsored by Papa Gino's and D'Angelo's Sandwich Shops
Note: The New England Internship Study, in cooperation with the Northeast Human Resources Association, is being directed by Richard Bottner of Babson College under the supervision of Professor Joseph Weintraub. Contact Richard Bottner with any questions about the survey at richard@internshipstudy.com.
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Contact: Rich Bottner
Candy & Gift Store Discount
Joel's At Needham Square is a candy and gift store located at 996 Great Plain Avenue in Needham Center.  Just show your Olin student or Faculty ID to get a 10% discount off your entire purchase.  Stop by and see what we have to offer!
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Contact: Lisa Mohrwinkel
Post Graduate Planning Announcements
Olin's resource for internships, summer research, jobs, graduate school and more
 
 
GENERAL
 
Boston University College of Engineering - Graduate School Information Session
Monday, October 23, 6-7 PM
AC 328
 
Mark Horenstein, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Research at the College of Engineering, Boston University will host an information session to discuss graduate engineering programs at BU. Professor Horenstein is familiar with Olin and is excited to talk with you. Students from all classes may attend. Please register so that we know how many people to expect (not required, however.) Info on BU graduate programs at www.bu.edu/eng/grad/.
 
 
CIA Information Session
Monday, October 30, 6:30-8:30 PM
AC 109
 
Representatives from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency will host an Information Session on Monday, October 30, in AC 109. If you are a first year student or a sophomore and think you might be interested in a summer 2007 internship in the Science and Technology Director of the Agency it is VERY IMPORTANT that you attend this session. To register for the Information Session Log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter at http://careers.olin.edu. Prior to attending the session, thoroughly review the CIA website for information about its history, mission, leadership, and directorates (www.cia.gov.)
 
 
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Workshop
Monday, November 1, 6:30-8:00 PM
 
Extroversion? Introversion? Judging? Perceiving? You may have heard these words, but what do they really mean? Come learn more about them from Assistant Dean of Student Life, Alison Black, who will offer a workshop on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). MBTI is a personality test designed to assist a person in identifying some significant personal preferences. This may be of special interest and assistance for students who are not sure what they want to do after Olin. Students will actually take the MBTI and score themselves prior to the workshop. Log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter at http://careers.olin.edu and register to attend this event (required, Limit 15).
 
 
Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellowships
Deadline: Friday, October 27
 
For innovators in the Applied Physical, Biological and Engineering Sciences. Minimum $28,000 stipends and full tuition equivalent. For more information go to www.hertzfoundation.org.
 
 
Beyond Campus: Connecting Students of Color to Boston
Monday, October 30, 5:00-7:00 PM, Emerson College, Bill Bordy Theater
 
This social event is a new and important component of The Partnership / KeySpan College to Career Program and is designed to connect students of color with the Greater Boston community and the Partnership’s Alumni.  For more information go to http://www.thepartnershipinc.org/college.html
 
 
Career Connection Conference: For Undergraduate & Graduate Students of Color
Friday, November 3, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM & Saturday, November 4, 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
 
Also part of the Partnership’s College to Career Program, this event (to be held at John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston) provides students with the support they need to meet Boston based employers and make a successful transition from student to professional. For more information go to www.thepartnershipinc.org
 
 
Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Deadline: Wednesday, January 10, 2007
 
The DOE CGF Program provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing a Ph.D. in scientific or engineering disciplines with emphasis on high-performance computing. For more information go to www.krellinst.org/csgf.
 
 
 
INTERNSHIPS
 
Medline Industries
Work remotely from campus– Deadline: November 16, 2006
 
Intern. Go to http://careers.olin.edu and Log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter at http://careers.olin.edu to view this job posting.
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Contact: Suzanne Alcott
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