CORe Digest
December 15th 2006
My Fellow Students,
Have you ever had one of those weeks?
<rant mood="emo">
- Monday and Tuesday bring with them two different hastily-made presentations.
You're late to classes and meetings, you slap together work,
and you're working diligently
with Nick, Joe, and Scott McClure on your CompArch project, which you know is
going nowhere fast. You consume +2
doubleshots
to keep yourself going.
- You wake up early Wednesday morning because you're freaked out about your
four-hour AnalDig
final exam. You study like a fiend, and take it in a lonely team room.
+2 doubleshots. Next is the GA meeting, at least with some heated debate. Luis resigns.
You get back to the lab to work on the CompArch project due the next day at noon.
You think you're beyond help, but your amazing teammate, Joe, has decided to wait until
midnight to take his AnalDig exam. Oh, and he also needs to make a Discrete presentation,
for your class the next morning at 8am. Wednesday slowly becomes Thursday, as you work on CompArch.
+4 doubleshots. Scott McClure makes you laugh.
Things somehow start to work at 7:30am. You manage to stay awake through Discrete, bumble through
the project, and collapse in your bed at 2pm.
- You wake up at 10pm to work on the Digest :), missing dinner. You realize that you haven't been
to the Dining Hall in two days, but the caffeine makes up for it. You think you're done. But no;
you still have two more papers to write this weekend. Oh, and Expo, too.
Oh well. At least you can rant about it.
</rant>
*Note: Don't worry, I enjoy this stuff.
So now that you know what's up with me, what's up for you?
- Snowball
- Expo
How 'bout CORe?
- Mini-Minutes! Check out the full
EBoard
and
GA
minutes.
- Robin will serve on the Board of Trustees' Budget, Finance,
and Compensation Committee in February.
- Elections to fill vacant Class of 2008 (Joe) and EH Rep (Luis) positions
will take place Thursday, January 25.
- CORe approved the DISCO DDR club.
- CORe has decided to recommend through OSL a $25 raise to the Student
Activities Fee next year. This is to alleviate new financial pressures, due
primarily to the diminishing OSL contribution to SAC over the past year, and
to mitigate any possible similar cuts in the future.
- Due to the different financial structure this year (Operating Expenses taken
from the Student Activities Fee), food for the GA's spring retreat will not
come from CORe's budget.
- Line Items:
- ODP: $700 [GA] - Instructor Fees
- OFFR: $200 [EB] - Robot Sensors
- SWE: $100 [EB] - Study Break Food
- DeltaCORe: $100 [GA] - Study Break Food
- Class of 2010: $100 [GA] - Class Party
- Class of 2008: $80 [GA] - Class Event Food
- OSA: $68 [GA] - Conference/Travel Fees
- Cheese Club: $50 [EB] - Study Break Food
- Open: $20 [GA] - Study Break Food
Remember, check out the
CORe Calendar
in Outlook for more information about any of these upcoming activities!
Sunday Dec 17:
Monday Dec 18:
- 12pm-1pm: Lunch w/ Karen Stone and Carol Kelley
Tuesday Dec 19:
- 9am-10:30am: Expo Poster Session 1
- 10:45am-12pm: Expo Presentation Session 1
- 2pm-3:30pm: Expo Poster Session 2
- 3:45pm-5pm: Expo Presentation Session 2
Wednesday Dec 20:
- 9am-10:30am: Expo Poster Session 3
- 10:45am-12:15pm: Expo Poster Session 4
That's it! As you finish up all of your obligations at the end of the semester, remember to
relax, do well with Expo, and enjoy break! The Digest will pick back up in Januray ... and don't
lie, you'll miss it ...
Sincerely,
Chris "Danger" Dellin
Your Vice President of Communication
Student-Staff Lunches Continue!
The Delta CORe committee continues to invite our all star staff members to have lunch with students.
This week, Karen Stone and Carol Kelley will be joining us on Monday December 18th from 12pm - 1pm in our fabulous Dining Hall.
Remember to stop by!
Snack Time!
Enjoy food and find out what we learned at the SWE Conferences
Join SWE on Monday at 7 PM in the East Hall first floor lounge to have snacks, mingle, and hear about what students learned at this year's SWE Conferences. Visit different tables, each with a special snack and topic.
Topics to include:
Green Engineering
Technical Interviews
Leadership Burnout
Networking and Self-Presentation
As an added bonus, meet the candidates for this year's officer elections!
Hallway Clutter and Furniture
Facilities Services will be shampooing carpets and cleaning public spaces in East and West Halls during January. Please remove any belongings from the hallways of the dorms so that this can be accomplished. This includes any bedroom furniture in the suite hallways of East Hall. Any items left behind in these spaces will be removed. Questions can be directed to Scott Slaboden, ext. 2318.
Mail Services During Intersession
To The College Community:
Due to the college being closed Monday, 12/25 through Monday, 1/1/07, there will be no internal mail service or package delivery on those days.
Regular service will be provided through the end of the day on Friday, 12/22 and resume on Tuesday, 1/2/07.
Mail will be picked up from the Needham post office on the mornings of 12/26, 12/27, 12/28 and 12/29. If you need access to the mail on those days, please contact Scott Slaboden, prior to Wednesday, 12/20. There will be no UPS/FedEx/DHL-Airborne deliveries to the college during this time.
Students studying away for the spring semester, that want their mail forwarded, need to provide Ed Crawford with preprinted address labels. Mail forwarding will begin 1/2/07 and follow USPS standard rules.
Students are asked not to remove packages from the loading dock. Packages are processed throughout the morning and are available in the mailroom at 11 am. If you have a time sensitive delivery, please notify Andy Goldstein at
andrew.goldstein@olin.edu or 781-727-5519.
Thank you and best wishes to you during the holiday season from Mail Services.
Scott Slaboden
X2318
Babson Offering in Finance --- Taught by Professor Goldstein
Cool Course--Olin Students Take Notice -- FIN3560, section 03 at Babson -- Send Cross-reg Requests to Linda Canavan
From Michael Goldstein:
I am running a SPECIAL SECTION of FIN 3560, section 03, on Tuesdays and Thursday evenings from 6:00 pm to 7:35 pm just so Olin students can attend without ruining their schedules.
A number of Olin students have taken my course and done quite well. I will WAIVE all pre-requisites for any Olin student (regardless of year) that wants to take this course.
The course itself is quite interesting. The goal of the course is to make sure that students can have a 15 minute conversation about almost any financial market. We go into some depth on the stock market (given my prior work as the Visiting Economist at the NYSE and Chair of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board), but we also examine interest rates, the bond market, the money markets, mortgage markets, foreign exchange (the currency markets), and derivatives such as options, futures, and forwards. The course has almost no accounting, so Olin students won’t be at a disadvantage, but it does have some basic algebra and a tiny amount of calculus and statistics, so Olin students can shine. I teach them not only about the markets, but also how to value or price these securities. My students have gone on to Wall Street and have earned upwards of $100,000 in their first year.
Perhaps the most popular part of the course is that we read the Wall Street Journal every day, and I describe how these world economic and political events interact with each other. Most of my students have no idea about the global economic interactions between markets when they walk in on the first day, but all comment on how they now understand how these markets interact and that they can understand the business pages on the last day!
I have attached last year’s syllabus, and below is a copy of the course description:
This course is for those students who are interested in learning more about financial markets, instruments, and institutions. We will examine a myriad of financial markets, the instruments that trade on them, and the financial and governmental institutions that use or support these markets. In particular, we will cover interest rates, equity markets, the money, capital and mortgage markets, the foreign exchange market, the Federal Reserve, and some derivative markets. To provide a unifying theme and to demonstrate the interconnectivity of the financial system, we will relate each chapter to the workings of the securities markets through The Wall Street Journal throughout the course.
Post Graduate Planning Announcements
Olin’s resource for internships, summer research, jobs, graduate school and more…
INTERNSHIPS & RESEARCH
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
Spring 2007 Internships – Boston, Worcester and Springfield
The Boston office is looking for an IT Infrastructure Intern, a Marketing Intern and a Campus Event Planner, just to name a few. For more information and a complete list of the various volunteer opportunities available please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
Lead America
Spring and Summer 2007 paid Internships –Nationwide
LeadAmerica is looking for responsible, enthusiastic, upbeat individuals to join their exceptional staff for the 2007 conference season. For more information please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
PTC
Spring 2007 Internship, part-time - Needham
PTC is currently seeking an Intern to join their team in Needham to assist with release management, project management and process improvement methodology activities. The internship position reports directly to the Director of Development Services, MCAD R&D. The successful candidates will gain valuable experience working as a member of a R&D team in a fun and creative work environment. For more information please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
Teradyne, Inc.
Manufacturing Internship – North Reading, MA
Teradyne is looking for a senior with Industrial, Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineering experience for this six month position. For more information please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
JOBS
Nortel
Software Engineer - Boston
The Nortel Metro Ethernet team is seeking a software engineer to work in the Software Design group. This growing team is building new product with key Carrier Ethernet functionality. Metro Ethernet market is a new and emerging market where you could make a difference. For more information please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
Hewlett-Packard
Electrical Engineering - ASIC Design –Richardson, TX and Fort Collins, Co
The Systems VLSI Lab (SVL) which designs the chipsets that power HP’s high performance computing systems is looking for and Electrical Engineer for ASIC Design. For more information please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
IBM – Burlington, VT
Test Engineer(TAE) for PPC Microprocessors and Support Off Shore Manufacturing
Deadline: January 15, 2007
Candidate must be able to work in a highly integrated team environment, have a knowledge of electronics, design, and manufacturing. For more information please log-in to EASE eCampusRecruiter on the
PGP website.
