There's no way around it, the closed list releases today have been in the front of my mind. For the uninitiated, each recruiting company gets to pick (for TMI's MBA students) three of their favorite candidates to put on their closed interview schedule. The remaining interview slots (again three for TMI MBAs) are up for bid. We all get 1000 bid points, but ~20 students are chasing ~60 interview slots, of which around half will be highly contested and half, uh, less so. The first round of interviews, which includes several of my favorites, has 11:59:59 tonight as the close list deadline. So far no dice, but I'm hanging in.
Outside of that a trip north to Francis Xavier Bagnoud's Boeing Lecture Hall for an aero lecture about system design for an unknown future. It was very interesting and fit nicely into my burgeoning architecture-minded thinking, not to mention my modular, convertible, and contingency ship research.
Speaking of things modular and architectural, there was a stupendous article in the WSJ about the new generation mod(ern) mod(ular) homes. Dwell Magazine started this craze with a competition for contemporary architects last year, but apparently it has really taken off. As an aspiring home owner who's looking for something architect-designed but can afford something Smurfit-Stone manufactured, this is a great crossroads. Send me the plans for a hip pad, a container full of glass, wood panels, and pre-formed lumber beams. Yeah, I'll cruise to Lowes or Home Depot or the Great Indoors and get the appliances and cabinets, pick fixtures, paint, and floors. Beyond that, though, I am cool with not having to stand around a dirty mudhole waiting for a plumber to find out why the toilet flushes into the sink. Hooray, prefab! ModMod all the way!
Thursday, January 26, 2006