CORe Digest
April 4th 2008
The C Phoenix Fest this weekend! First of all, today is the fourth day of the fourth month of the fourth year since two thousand and four. That's pretty neat, even if I had to stretch it a little bit. This weekend is Phoenix Fest! Phoenix Fest is a campus-wide (means a lot, eh?) carnival type event put on by CORe. This year's event features a 30 Second Video Competition, an Eating Competition, and a Bonfire. You should come and hang out all evening, watch some funny videos, eat absurd amounts of food, and listen to seniors tell stories around a big fire. 30 Second Videos aren't due until [tonight] at Midnight. You can still get a crew together and make one for everyone to check out! I would lend you my camcorder, but I dropped it off my desk and it stopped working. Here are some potential ideas I have heard brandied about: If you make a video based around one of these themes and win the competition, I won't even charge you royalty fees. Although if you win the eating competition and go to Anna's, let me know and I will tag along. I love those quesadillas. That could be another video theme. "All Anna's close. Anthony Roldan riots in streets."
Re Digest
Banners of Rod Crafts hanging from the Academic Center, "A Yellow Coded Curfew is now in effect", V for Vendetta type stuff.
People who call it "The OC" start disappearing.
Dress up like Waldo and hide in the Dining Hall. Have a variety of scenes where the viewers have to find Waldo.
"Here we find the wild sophomore in his native environment. Ain't he a beaut?"
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Greg "Loves Me Some Videos" Marra
Vice President of Communication
Seniors - contribute to the Olin Oral History Project
Leave a record of your legacy
Dear Class of 2008,
Don't forget to sit down with one of our staff interviewers to participate in the Olin Oral History Project! Join members of the Classes of 2006 & 2007 who left a recording of their thoughts, memories, opinions, experiences in the Olin Audio Archives. Jon Provo: "I didn't think I'd left a 'legacy' until Rod [Crafts] reminded me during the interview that I am the college's first Chemistry major." An interviewer should have contacted you already - but if not, drop us a line at library@olin.edu and we'll make sure someone contacts you soon. Thanks!
Extended Advising Family Lunches
Dine with your extended family!
National Alcohol Screening Day
Stop by for important information!
National Alcohol Screening Day occurs on Thursday, April 10th. OSL is sponsoring an educational table outside the dining hall from 11:30am until 1:15pm on that day. Lots of information will be available on topics such as: the connection between alcohol and stress, alcoholism, alcohol myths, and the impact of mixing alcohol with medicine. In addition, an alcohol screening form will be available if you would like to assess your use of alcohol. Tanya Cherkerzian from Colony Care will be available to meet with students on an individual basis to review the form. Tanya will be here from 11:45 until 1:00; if you’d like to set up a time to meet with her, please contact Alison in OSL; this information will be kept confidential. You can also just stop by the table to fill out the form and meet with Tanya. See you on April 10th!
Singers! Want to perform some interesting music next year?
Boston Harmony is a local group that performs wonderful music from all around the world--mostly from the Balkans, South Africa, Corsica, Georgia (Tblisi is the capital, not Atlanta) etc. Currently we are a group of about 30 ranging in age from 15-65 (about half high school/college age and half older folks). The group meets once a month for weekend rehearsals in Concord MA--either all day Saturday or part of Saturday and part of Sunday.
Since a few of us at Olin have had fun singing Bulgarian music this year, I thought there might be some interest on the part of Olin students in this opportunity. If so, we'll see what we can do to arrange transportation and support.
Check out the website for Village Harmony, the umbrella group for Boston Harmony at: http://www.villageharmony.org under Community Choruses. Or come to one of our concerts in early May: May 2 at the Framingham Unitarian Church, and May 3 at the W. Newton Unitarian Church.
Contact me if you think you might be interested for next year.
Yearbooks! They're all the rage!
You know you want one.
Don't forget to buy a yearbook! The price increases on May 1st, so if you don't get one by then you'll be stuck paying 40% more.
Order forms exist outside of Katie Kavett's room. You can send them through interoffice mail addressed to "Yearbook", or hand them to Katie, Matt Crawford, or Nik Wittenstein.
Alternatively, print out the order form attached and use that. It couldn't be easier!
Seeking Suggestions for Panelists at Book Convocation
Can you help us find panelists for the August 28 Convocation on the summer book?
As you might have heard, this year's summer book is Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. With support from the Class of 2006, the college will give copies of the book to continuing students this spring and mail the book to incoming students in June; some copies are also available for faculty and staff (contact Rod Crafts).
The purpose of this announcement is to encourage you to read the book and to ask for your help in finding panelists. Here is a quick blurb about the book: Food is a highly-engineered product. Every step in its production---including agriculture, transportation, processing and preparation---involves complex engineering systems. But these processes are invisible to most consumers. Michael Pollan's book investigates the food-making machine. He follows a calf from birth to the slaughterhouse and an ear of corn from the field through the complex network that turns it into sweeteners, starches, supplements, animal feed, ethanol, and more. The book also explores alternatives to industrial food production, including small-scale organic farming and the smallest scale of all, hunting and foraging. Pollan's descriptions of food production are fascinating to anyone with an interest in engineering, and important to anyone who eats.
For the discussion at the Convocation, we would like to have 3-4 panelists to represent different sections of Pollan's book.
1) For conventional agriculture, we would like to find someone involved in large-scale farming or food processing, or possibly a food scientist, or someone involved in large-scale food preparation or transportation.
2) For alternative agriculture, we would like to find someone involved in organic farming, or community-supported agriculture, or small-scale local farming.
3) For personal food production, we would like to find someone involved in hunting, foraging or gardening.
The goal of the Summer Book Program is to choose a book that is likely to foster lively discussion. We would like to recruit panelists who represent a range of perspectives and views.
We will begin contacting potential panelists soon, so please send us your recommendations before April 21.
Thank you!
Allen Downey and Rod Crafts
As you might have heard, this year's summer book is Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. With support from the Class of 2006, the college will give copies of the book to continuing students this spring and mail the book to incoming students in June; some copies are also available for faculty and staff (contact Rod Crafts).
The purpose of this announcement is to encourage you to read the book and to ask for your help in finding panelists. Here is a quick blurb about the book: Food is a highly-engineered product. Every step in its production---including agriculture, transportation, processing and preparation---involves complex engineering systems. But these processes are invisible to most consumers. Michael Pollan's book investigates the food-making machine. He follows a calf from birth to the slaughterhouse and an ear of corn from the field through the complex network that turns it into sweeteners, starches, supplements, animal feed, ethanol, and more. The book also explores alternatives to industrial food production, including small-scale organic farming and the smallest scale of all, hunting and foraging. Pollan's descriptions of food production are fascinating to anyone with an interest in engineering, and important to anyone who eats.
For the discussion at the Convocation, we would like to have 3-4 panelists to represent different sections of Pollan's book.
1) For conventional agriculture, we would like to find someone involved in large-scale farming or food processing, or possibly a food scientist, or someone involved in large-scale food preparation or transportation.
2) For alternative agriculture, we would like to find someone involved in organic farming, or community-supported agriculture, or small-scale local farming.
3) For personal food production, we would like to find someone involved in hunting, foraging or gardening.
The goal of the Summer Book Program is to choose a book that is likely to foster lively discussion. We would like to recruit panelists who represent a range of perspectives and views.
We will begin contacting potential panelists soon, so please send us your recommendations before April 21.
Thank you!
Allen Downey and Rod Crafts
Wellesley Survey
PGP Announcements
Olin’s resource for internships, summer research, jobs, graduate school and more…
GENERAL
Boston Cares Initiative Networking Workshop
Monday, April 7th – 5:30-8:00 PM – Boston Public Library (Copley)
Come to this interactive, energizing program which will teach you how to build and cultivate your own personal and professional network! After learning new networking skills, you will have a chance to practice with free food and socializing at the Globe Café after the workshop. Please email Tare DeLeo at tdeleo@bostoncares.org to register for this event.
Echo Engineering On-Campus Interviews
Thursday and Friday, April 10th and 11th
Echo Engineering will be on campus to interview Oliners interested in Software Engineering. They are looking for both interns and full-time employees. If you are interested, sign-up for a spot in EASE.
Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth Open House
Friday, April 11th 5:30-8:00 PM
Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be lab tours, demonstrations and exhibitions. Refreshments will be served. For more information go to http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/news-events/events/openhouse.html
Friday, April 11th 5:30-8:00 PM
Everyone is welcome to attend. There will be lab tours, demonstrations and exhibitions. Refreshments will be served. For more information go to http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/news-events/events/openhouse.html
Peace Corps Information Session and Open House - Boston
Wednesday, April 16th - Tip O'Neill Federal Building
Open House, 12 pm – 5 pm in Suite 559
Information Session, 6:30pm – 8pm in the 1st Floor Auditorium. All are welcome. For more information please visit their website at www.peacecorps.gov or contact recruiter Jenny Zeisler at jzeisler@peacecorps.gov
Wednesday, April 16th - Tip O'Neill Federal Building
Open House, 12 pm – 5 pm in Suite 559
Information Session, 6:30pm – 8pm in the 1st Floor Auditorium. All are welcome. For more information please visit their website at www.peacecorps.gov or contact recruiter Jenny Zeisler at jzeisler@peacecorps.gov
SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES
WGBH Design Squad
Deadline: Friday, April 11th
Design Squad, the PBS reality competition show aimed at 9-12 year olds, is auditioning for Season 3. We are seeking candidates ages 18-19 who are passionate about engineering and are excited to spend the months of June-August in Boston (and traveling as well) tackling design challenges and competing for the $10,000 prize. Produced by WGBH-Boston for PBS, the program's goal is to get viewers excited about engineering and the design process. Interested candidates can learn more about the series and apply at http://pbs.org/designsquad
Deadline: Friday, April 11th
Design Squad, the PBS reality competition show aimed at 9-12 year olds, is auditioning for Season 3. We are seeking candidates ages 18-19 who are passionate about engineering and are excited to spend the months of June-August in Boston (and traveling as well) tackling design challenges and competing for the $10,000 prize. Produced by WGBH-Boston for PBS, the program's goal is to get viewers excited about engineering and the design process. Interested candidates can learn more about the series and apply at http://pbs.org/designsquad
Nokia Summer Internship
Cambridge, MA
Ora Lassila (friend of Olin) has the opportunity to hire at least one more intern for her project (called "Virpi") which focuses on using rich information and Semantic Web representations/technologies to support the generation of speech and dialogue -based user interfaces. The project merges our long-standing efforts in the Semantic Web area and in the area of speech and natural language processing. She is looking for candidates who know Semantic Web technologies and can write code. If you are interested please email Ora at ora.lassila@nokia.com
Cambridge, MA
Ora Lassila (friend of Olin) has the opportunity to hire at least one more intern for her project (called "Virpi") which focuses on using rich information and Semantic Web representations/technologies to support the generation of speech and dialogue -based user interfaces. The project merges our long-standing efforts in the Semantic Web area and in the area of speech and natural language processing. She is looking for candidates who know Semantic Web technologies and can write code. If you are interested please email Ora at ora.lassila@nokia.com
Zvents
San Francisco Bay Area Start-up
Zach Brock ’07 is working as a Software Engineer at a startup called Zvents (http://www.zvents.com) in the Bay Area, and they’re looking for engineers and designers right now! They need full time hires, but may also be open to some summer internships. The company is focused on event and local search and powers a bunch of different sites, including http://calendar.boston.com, http://events.la.com and http://osuevents.campusdailyguide.com/ (to name a few). There are a lot of exciting projects in the pipeline that they’ll need more engineering talent for. They’re primarily a Ruby on Rails house, but their search back end is written in Java and they have a lot of custom javascript. They need engineers for the web and search teams as well as a product manager/designer. If you are interested please email Zach directly at zach.brock@alumni.students.olin.edu and be sure to include what you are interested in doing along with a resume.
San Francisco Bay Area Start-up
Zach Brock ’07 is working as a Software Engineer at a startup called Zvents (http://www.zvents.com) in the Bay Area, and they’re looking for engineers and designers right now! They need full time hires, but may also be open to some summer internships. The company is focused on event and local search and powers a bunch of different sites, including http://calendar.boston.com, http://events.la.com and http://osuevents.campusdailyguide.com/ (to name a few). There are a lot of exciting projects in the pipeline that they’ll need more engineering talent for. They’re primarily a Ruby on Rails house, but their search back end is written in Java and they have a lot of custom javascript. They need engineers for the web and search teams as well as a product manager/designer. If you are interested please email Zach directly at zach.brock@alumni.students.olin.edu and be sure to include what you are interested in doing along with a resume.
Social Entrepreneur Corps
Deadline: Thursday, May 1st
We are currently in the final stages of accepting applications for our Summer 2008 programs. Take a look at our admittedly rudimentary VIDEO on YouTube to get a better feel for the program. We still have a handful of openings for both our eight week (Deadline: April 15th) and four week programs (Deadline: May 1st) so we encourage you to APPLY NOW if you are interested. Join us for the experience of a lifetime! (Note: Application deadlines may differ with select university strategic partners)
SCHOLARSHIPS
Horizons Scholarship
Deadline: July 1st
Women In Defense, A National Security Organization established the HORIZONS Scholarship in 1988 to encourage women to pursue careers related to the national security and defense interests of the United States and to provide development opportunities to women already working in national security and defense fields. The scholarship is intended to provide financial assistance to further educational objectives of women who are U.S. citizens either employed or planning careers in defense or national security areas. (This is not law enforcement or criminal justice.) A panel of judges considers applications and makes awards once each year. WID is in a key position to shape the future defense and national security workforce. For more information and to apply please go to http://wid.ndia.org/horizon/
Deadline: July 1st
Women In Defense, A National Security Organization established the HORIZONS Scholarship in 1988 to encourage women to pursue careers related to the national security and defense interests of the United States and to provide development opportunities to women already working in national security and defense fields. The scholarship is intended to provide financial assistance to further educational objectives of women who are U.S. citizens either employed or planning careers in defense or national security areas. (This is not law enforcement or criminal justice.) A panel of judges considers applications and makes awards once each year. WID is in a key position to shape the future defense and national security workforce. For more information and to apply please go to http://wid.ndia.org/horizon/
*Don’t forget to check out EASE for all the latest opportunities and to sign up for our upcoming events!