Ladies and gentlemen, winner of the 2004 WORLD SERIES....THE BOSTON RED SOX!

Words and pictures from our media friends:
The Boston Globe. YES!
ESPN. Red Sox Nation Rejoice.
The Sports Guy. It's all about the destination, I mean destiny.
Soxaholix. Champagne, church bells and cartoons.
More blog madness. The 28 year old guy beside me at the bar was buying rounds of Irish car bombs and crying into his cell phone. Talking to his dad, no doubt.

I love it when the underdog wins. Eighty-six years. Ok Willie, now we're just waiting for the Cubs. In the meantime, I'm trying to put my life back together without TVs and bar countertops to comfort me.

Postscript:
When you start remembering all the b-school bull about "passion" and "following your dream". Well, Theo Epstein is only 30 years old.

GO SOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depends on whether you park your car out by Fenway), most of us have since left Boston before this grand event. I was stuck to the television for the past couple of days, as I'm sure you were too. Suddenly found myself hanging out in sports bars and only agreeing to go out to dinner if there was a TV involved. Bill and Lance, our condolences to you, but we sure are happy that the Red Sox won last night. What a team, what a team.

Headlines:
The Boston Globe
ESPN
The NY Daily News - "Hell Freezes Over" being my favorite one so far
Bill Simmons weighs in

Can we still get tickets to the World Series? If only Gerry Wilson started his business earlier.

SATURDAY DRINKS IN NYC. If you happen to be in NYC on Saturday, Sept. 25 and have time to spare, do drop by Nublu on Ave. C past 9:30 pm for some birthday drinks. Yes, I'm turning another year older and it isn't going to be a pretty sight.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN
"What's sad is that I've figured out it would be cheaper to rent some storage space and live in a hotel than to keep my apartment in Boston, given the number of times I've actually slept in my bed."
-D. Kuo on the familiar perils of the consulting life

THE FUTURE OF SLOANBLOG
After some consideration and discussion with various parties (ok, maybe just Rob Byrne), we here at OVERHEARD have decided to keep the blog going, for as long as the Man over at Blogger and Google continue to keep the service free. Of course, given the gadzillions they raked in with the IPO, damn right they should keep it free.

So now, apart from being a forum for various random thoughts and overheard quotes from 2004 Sloanies now scattered throughout the globe, OVERHEARD is open for posts from you. New addition to the family, events you might be organizing, an open invite to your vacation home in the British Virgin Islands - everything is welcome! (Well, with the possible exception of porn site links from Lionel).

How to post on the blog:
Option 1: Ask to be made a member of the blog. Send an email to michelle@sloan.mit.edu and I will send you an invite and you can start posting away using the Blogger interface.
Option 2: Use the general member account. Username: sloanie04. Password: a certain building we [used to] hold near and dear to our hearts. If you can't figure it out, shoot an email over to michelle_at_sloan. You can access the blog dashboard [main website] through here. Please remember to format your posts the way they're done in the rest of the blog.
Option 3: Use the comments section. We've recently added this section so everyone can post to it, no emails necessary. What you write in the comments won't show up in the main page, though.

So basically, this is going to be some sort of blog-bulletin board hybrid that people can use to keep in touch with. In the interest of keeping things entertaining, we'd appreciate wit, snark and all those things that make good copy in your posts. (helpful hint: keep quoting Lance) Happy posting!

P.S. If you have any websites that you want people to see, email us and we'll link to you over on the right. So far, we have Mark's blog at Techwalk but we'd love to have more.

And just when you thought all that drinking in b-school was a bit much
Researchers at University College London say otherwise. Which brings me to another quote (or to be more accurate, paraphrase) from our friend Mr. Kechley.

"After business school, I thought I should get my drinking habits to somewhere more reasonable. So drinks on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - three out of the seven days a week -seemed fine."

Ideas, ideas, ideas.

It's been a couple of months since graduation and this space has been dormant for a while. Am not sure if we should end the blog as we speak, or use this as a space for people to post on from time to time (as a way to keep up on our class from 2004). Any ideas are welcome. Send them all to michelle@sloan.mit.edu

In the meantime, welcome to the working world people!

HAPPY GRADUATION !!!! - Bloody Mary's at Lance's before assembly and then get ready for six hours of hell before we finally get that $110K piece of paper.

Tonight, head over to 33 Stanhope street and party like a rock star to say happy birthday to Nhat-so and Boris.

POST-PARTY PIZZA
"It might be late, but I still got eyes."
-DLee complimenting the ladies, 3 a.m. at Hi-Fi in Central Square

OVERHEARD AFTER THE BVI
"So, no vacation romances for you?"
"There weren't any skippers left."
-female Sloanie in the presence of several other female Sloanies who might have perhaps contributed to the last fact

OVERHEARD AT THE BVI
"We're going to put you in the dinghy, then slingshot you around the boat, just like in Armageddon."
"Isn't that a bit high risk?"
"We have no choice."
-Dave Gordon and DLee contemplating moves for passenger transfer while sailing five knots

"Then I thought, 'I think it's time to stop laughing now.'"
-The Trini stallion explaining at what point their boat figured out that a man overboard was a serious thing

"So between naked sloanies and high stakes poker, we know what will always win. High stakes poker."
-female sloanie on one all-male boat's dedication to competitive gambling

Two more weeks till graduation
"Love's a bit of a game, isn't it?"
-a suddenly sentimental second year sloanie at 1:30 am after the Armani cafe

"I have to admit, you are pretty skilled at the racially offensive remarks."
"Don't forget, he's also good at offending on gender."
"Ok, to be frank, you're skilled on all levels of offensiveness."
"Hey, let's just say I'm an equal opportunity offender."
-some core team loving at a lobster shack dinner

Wherever you go, it's all the same
“So 33 is like frat guys in black pants instead of frat guys in blue jeans?”
-Mr. Musto at the aforementioned establishment

33 TONIGHT. Just in case you've recovered from the massively successful texan-style barbecue at the Sloanfest in Kresge this afternoon, there is much partying going on at 33 in Boston, 10 pm tonight. See you there!

"In-Bed" Rules for Fortune Cookies apply
"Ask a friend to join you on your next voyage, in bed."
-Elaine's fortune cookie fortune, 1:21am Friday morning, Chinatown

"A new voyage will fill your life with untold memories, in bed."
-Michael's fortune cookie fortune, 1:22am Friday morning, Chinatown

Club 141 quotes
"All the girls are staring at my boobs."
"That's ok, all the guys are too."
-second year Sloanie reply to one of the wayward guests at the pimps & ho's party on the top floor

END-OF-CLASSES FIESTA at CLub 141 Tonight. Ben, Lucas and Graham are once again opening up their Sloan brownstone for major partying tonight. Make your way over for kegs and cocktails, after the Sloan Awards night. The manic celebration is at 141 Charles Street - just get off the Beacon Hill T-stop.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK KIM! We hear that Redline at Harvard Square later in the evening is the official site for greeting one of our favorite fashion plates a happy birthday. Buy him a shot or two and see if you can get him to do his little dance.

BVI PLANNING
"I don't think I want to leave the provisioning up to you guys."
"With two consultants, how can it possibly go wrong?"
"And if it does go wrong, we'll make a powerpoint slide telling you why it's your fault."
-Julia, Dave and Doug working on the shopping list

HONDA (B) at the ASGARD TONIGHT! Shimmy over to The Asgard on Central Square at 9 pm tonight and shake your booty as Honda (B) tears the house up (or down, it depends - damn these American idioms). Get ready to throw your thongs at the man on bass in his blue tuxedo (he's started a collection) and do the indie-rock head bob to the second year band.

Ah, was it only yesterday that they were playing house parties at the electric garage? Time flies, time flies and this is the last week of class. Graduation looms and it is time to party!

ON THE FSA EXAM
"I'm going to see how far they can stretch the Sloan B."
-second year Sloanie

MOMENTS WE'LL MISS

Scorpion bowls at the Kong.

Sometimes it's better not to ask
"Can you explain the difference between most likely and average?"
"Well, we'll see that in a while when we put your results up here."
-Tracy and Professor KRock in the last ACF class

TUESDAY THIRST QUENCHERS. As Mandy e-mails: Join us this Tuesday night (5/11) at the B-Side Lounge (92 Hampshire St. between Central and Kendall Squares) from 9 PM onward as we celebrate the handover of Thirst Quencher organizational responsibilities to the Class of 2005!

Please join me in congratulating Stella Choi and Frank Hull for taking on the Thirst Quencher organizational responsibilities for next year! They will both do an excellent job of making sure that future events are held in your favorite Cambridge-area venues.

Only two more Thirst Quenchers remain -- see you Tuesday!

Remnants from the barbecue
"Hey, I'm sexy too. Why don't I get any money?"
-Joe N.

"Love it. Love it. Love it."
-Rahul M.

"I never knew they spelled wedgie with a w."
-Rahul M.

"Love it. Love it. Love it."
-Rob Byrne, doing his best Rahul impersonation

"How many McKinsey consultants does it take to light up a heater?"
-As Mike Ibrahim, Jacqui and Byrne attempt to turn the gas up on the outdoor device

[Apologies if these posts don't make much sense. Overheard has a lot of beer, barbecue and sour-cream covered spuds in their tummy right now. Interfering. with. thought. - Ed.]

SLOANIES ARE ARTISTS TOO. Bryna writes: "For 14.343 – Photography and Related Media, I just wanted to let you know that my final project will be on display tonight from 7-10pm at the MIT Advanced Visualization Theater, 7-431." It's called au-to-ma-tic-i-ty Perspective on the Windows of Madison Avenue. Leave it up to Bryna to take fashion pictures for her final photography exhibit. ;-)

MORE ESPN HISTORY
"Halloran - it was like the Celtics when they were actually good. *class murmurs* None of you remember that, but I do."
-Professor Byrnes in Case Studies

KEY B-SCHOOL LEARNINGS
"How did you know they were dating?"
"I learned a number of things at the 80's C-function. One of them was don't ever do shots with South Americans."
-Ryan M. commenting on Arturo's lethal drinking stamina that night

I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU
"Wasn't the last episode of Friends tonight?"
"I was just in downtown Boston, there was no one out. It was like the Academy Awards."
"I was expecting Friends riots. Mobs breaking into the Banana Republic, smashing windows."
-Michelle, Doho and Wener at The Good Life, 1:00 am

SPORTSCENTER
"I can't decide who to hate more this season - Eli Manning or the Lakers. So far, it's a tie."
-Morrissey at Characters

"If you don't already know, my outlook on life depends entirely on how well the Dodgers or the Lakers are doing."
-James C. at Characters

SELF-ESTEEM
"Yes, we all overestimate our own value to other people. *class snickers* That's a sad, sad lesson to learn kids."
-Stacy Woods, marketing professor

FAVORITE GALA SHOT. Can't seem to decide between the two:
or .
Yes, there was a Viking at the gala. Note the huge bone. Who says you need a tux to party?

More pictures are available at the U drive under the Spring Gala folder.

CLASS GIFT. CLASS GIFT. CLASS GIFT.
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to implore each and every one of the class of 2004 to donate to the class gift. Any amount - your call. The big thing is participation because...

if 95% of our class commits to donate to sloan, we will be considered for an alum gift-matching of $100,000!

$100,000 - you heard it right. So donate $100, donate $50, donate $5 - just donate. That could be $100,000 left on the table if more than 20 people from our class fail to donate.

Click here to do it online [Find the "2004 Class Gift" designation by clicking on the "Schools and Departments/Sloan School/2004 Class Gift] or head to the gift table at Tang lobby. Only 7 more days to go and we're still just at 18% participation rate.

Ok, back to the levity and tales of excess.

BEACON HILL WEDNESDAYS - CINCO DE MAYO. Liz Hoffmann, Alison O’Neill, Laura Kauderer, Ansgar Chorhummel and Meghan Fitzgerald will be celebrating their birthdays tonight at the BHP. Cake and soda will not be served in lieu of beer and shots.

As the school year winds down, this is one of your few remaining chances to hang out with you classmates before you head off to the summer job, or worse yet, the permanent job. For some really odd reason, if you have never been to the Beacon Hill Pub tonight don't end the school year by missing out on one of the longest running social traditions at Sloan.

The evening festivities should start at 9:45. The Beacon Hill Pub is located at 149 Charles St., Boston -- inches from the Charles/MGH T stop.

Groupies
"All you have to do is a put a guy with a guitar under a spotlight - instant hotness."
"Well, Bill Keevan has been looking very attractive lately."
-Michelle and Tolu discussing band fever

Consultants
"Hey I never said I would vote for her. I just married her."
-Sloanie with a Bain spouse, discussing why consultants shouldn't be elected president

TUESDAY THIRST QUENCHERS. We hope to see you tonight at the Plough & Stars on 912 Mass. Ave. near Central Square for one of the last of the season.

Fiscal policy sucks!
"Where you ever old enough to hear about that minister in Mexico? He said (shaking his fist) 'I will defend my currency like a dog.' Well, if you haven't seen, the dogs in Mexico are chihuahuas."
-Professor Rigobon at his lunchtime talk on Latin America

The perils of second year partying
"I love you all. But I need to graduate or I am going to die."
-DLee after five straight nights of Mohegan Sun, 33 and Gala events

NEWPORT QUOTABLES.
"When I go down, I go down."
-Naoki Tsukamoto, on what happens when his caffeine high wears off.

"Is this the noon checkout group?"
"No, it's the detour-into-a-military-base-and-lose-your-way-while-men-in-uniform-come-to-chase-you group. I told her, 'Hester, I think we have to stop. There are men with guns and they are coming after us.'"
-Cecilia, explaining why they were late to the brunch at Christie's

"Chink..."
"Chink..."
"Chink..."
"Jap..."
-A pre-gala toast, sans proper stemware, takes a humorous, yet incredibly racist turn.

"I have three types of pork!"
-Wayne Chang, observing the contents of his 2 am Newport, RI, IHOP breakfast sampler

Spring is best for babies.
We would just like to welcome Manuel's new baby - Tomas Osorio - who was looking very cute in his pointy cap.

Another warm welcome is in order for Mimi Huang's son - Nicholas Chin - who must be a born finance whiz having sat through all of Rock's lectures while in Mimi's tummy.

TONIGHT, CELBRATE AT 33!
This week, DALEIN and JACQUI actually turned a year older so come help celebrate their birthdays in style.

Where: 33 Lounge - 33 Stanhope Street, Boston
When: Thursday, April 29
Time: 10 pm

Drinking, dancing and all sorts of debauchery with our favorite Aussie and South African. Need we say more?

RECRUITING FOR VEGAS
"The people you invite to bachelor parties have got to be the Navy Seals of your party friends. They have to know how to get you out of jams. They have to know how to get you into jams."
-Ryan W.

FREE CONE OF BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM TODAY! The sun is out and ice cream is back. Promo valid till 8 pm today. A scoop or two of Cherry Garcia always makes my day. Ok, maybe a couple of scoops.

TUESDAY THIRST QUENCHERS. From Mandy's e-mail:

Only four more Tuesdays remain in this semester! Do not miss your final opportunity to attend a Thirst Quencher event. Join your fellow Sloanies to relive the Follies hi-lights at People's Republik (880 Massachusetts Ave. in Central Square) -- we will be there starting at 9 PM.

If you would like to host a Thirst Quencher event at your favorite bar in the Cambridge area, please email me and we will make it happen.

Hope you can join us for another Tolu-sighting! :)

- Mandy

Food...good.
"Don't you know we have two stomachs?"
"Yes, a meal stomach and a dessert stomach."
-Rodrigo Serrano and Luis Pita, convincing Katrina to eat a chocolate truffle cake

Just in case you didn't know
"What is Tolu?"
-The question to every answer in the party category in Follies Sloan Jeopardy

FOLLIES TODAY! Kresge auditorium. Food and drinks at 6 pm and the show starts at 8. See you there.

The perils of drinking at home
"To anyone from the outside, we'd look like a bunch of drunks."
"Hey, we're all dressed up. We can't be alcoholics."
-Dave K. and Dave L. pre-partying in the apartment before heading out to 33

GET YOUR GRAD ROBES TODAY. April 24 is the deadline, otherwise there's a $25 late fee. And you know that you would be better served if you could spend it on beer. You can get it at the basement of the Kendall Square Coop.

Party at 141 Charles tonight! Say hello to the last Admits standing after a very long (and highly successful) weekend. Come over to the frat house and have one of Matt Z.'s heavenly concoctions, knock your head on the disco ball and fall in love.

B-School skills
"I know you. You're one of those non-wrist bending freaks."
-John Mclaughlin to Courtney J. in her wrist bending attempts

CAPRICE TONIGHT! Just because. Put on your dancing shoes and come out on this cold, cold spring day.

BODY ART
"I just got a tattoo."
"Your body's like a walking bulletin board for obscure Russian poets."
-Dave M. to Nicolai M. at the Muddy Charles

OVERHEARD - Urban Legend
Quotes that have been going around, but we at Overheard somehow forgot to add it in.

"Do I make you horny baby?"
-Alex Chan, in Talent Show 2003, in his ever endearing Aussie-by-way-of-British-boarding-school accent. Welcome Back Alex!

"Not so fast, Nhat-so Lam."
-alleged quote from a lovely lady in Brazil last spring break 2003

"I don't know who you are, but tonight, you are mine."
-Lionel in his this-line-only-works-if-you're-Lionel accent to an Aussie tourist in NYC. Goodbye Lionel, too bad you couldn't stick around till graduation but we understand, Australia was calling

PARTY AT THE KONG TONIGHT. Part I of the April birthday bashes will be held at The HongKong tonight, around 9-ish at Harvard Square. Come say happy birthday to Jacqui, Julius, Andy, Sunia, and Dalein. Keep posted because Part II is next Thursday, a party that Dalein will actually attend.

MARKETING CONCEPTS
"Those focus groups can get easily swayed by strong personalities."
"Focus groups. Great concept. I like a cult of personality built around me."
-Dave L. and Doug G. after Advertising and Branding class

TUESDAY THIRST QUENCHERS. There is a bar crawl in your future, as designed by Doug and Dave. Here's a post from Mandy:

Hey Thirst Quenchers,

Marathon madness is back in town, and we have gone crazy with the rest of them. Join us as we crawl our way through Harvard Square this Tuesday night (4/20), starting early this week at 8 PM.

Our journey through Cambridge will begin first with dinner and will proceed as follows:
1. Charlie's Kitchen - 8 PM
2. Red Line - 9 PM
3. Shays - 9:30 PM
4. Grendel's - 10 PM
5. John Harvard's - 10:30 PM
6. Daedelus - 11 PM
7. Grafton Street - 11:30 PM
8. Hong Kong - 12 AM
9. Cellar - 12:30 AM

We plan to stick tightly to this schedule. However, in the event you are having trouble locating us, please give either Doug, Dave or myself (678-772-9481) a call.

Hope you can come crawl with us on Tuesday night!

Overheard on vacation but here are two to keep you happy:

POLITICAL STRIPES
"Yes, I'm liberal; I believe everything I hear on NPR."
-Johanne Auerbock

STALKING
"Ah, the temptations of stalking ex-boyfriends."
"It's not stalking if there isn't a court order."
-Michelle S. and Julia C. in a cuban restaurant in Miami

Gym motivation
"Bad techno music is the best to work out to. I know if I can get through half of it on my Ipod, I'm golden."
"I don't need music. All I have to do is work out on the treadmill between two skinny girls and I'm good to go."
-After the class gift reception

ETHICS AND OTHER THINGS
"Why do I need a class on ethics? Isn't my Catholic guilt enough?"
-2nd year Sloanie in the second floor study room

War stories
"Best rejection feedback I got was this guy from Bain. He said, 'There were just a lot of other candidates who were better than you.'"
"Nothing beats the folks from 3M. I got home to find all my roommates snickering that I didn't get the job. 3M had sent me a rejection postcard."
-second year Sloanies at the Thirsty Ear

We're with the band
"When was the last time you had women throwing their thongs at you?"
"Last Wednesday."
-Dave Meredith, without missing a beat, to Aaron's rhetorical question for Rob

Customer acceptance
"Could you get a consumer voting for this or would that be like a turkey voting for thanksgiving?"
-Prof. Henderson in managing innovation

"Now that you've drawn it, it doesn't seem like a good idea at all."
"A little trick of the trade there."
-Tom Stocky and Prof. Henderson on Tom's integration point in class

TUESDAY THIRST QUENCHERS. Message from Mandy:

Kenny Lee has graciously invited the Thirst Quencher crowd over to his place
tomorrow for a pre-party starting at 4:30 PM. All you need to do is bring
your thirsty selves to his place: 265 Western Avenue, Apt. 1 in Central
Square.

Also, below are directions and a map to the Thirsty Scholar:

(from Central T-stop) Take Prospect Street toward Inman Square (pass The
Field on the right). Take a left onto Hampshire Street, which becomes
Beacon Street. 10-15 minute walk or ~$5 cab ride.

The Thirsty Scholar * 70 Beacon Street * Inman Square tonight!

They like to jump around
"I keep wanting to say 'Tone it down, tone it down. It's too early in the morning to be this cheery.' "
-Dave K. on his professor at 8:30 am class

Friday at the Muddy Charles
"Ask her how many times she's taken French 1."
"How many - two?"
"Thrice! She's taken French 1 thrice."
"Yeah, and I'm so good at it now."
-Gerry Z. on her language classes at MIT

Dessert banter
"If we were in the third grade, I'd hit you with a mama joke right now."
-Ramy Abu, after some snide comment by Eugene at Finale

Measures of inebriation
"I was so drunk last night."
"How drunk?"
"I can't remember. All I know is the next day, Felicia came up to me and said, 'You scared me. Don't ever do that again.' "
-female 2nd year at the 3rd floor study room

Beacon Hill Pub. Beacon Hill Pub. Beacon Hill Pub tonight.

"Give me an M!"
"MMMMM!!!"
"Give me an I!"
"IIIII!!!!"
"Give me a T!!!!"
"TTTTT!"
"What does it spell???!!!"
*garble, garble**muffle, muffle**shuffle, yawn.*
-at the Z-center last night

Do you realize how little time is left till graduation?

*moment of panic laced with pre-nostalgia*

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Some things you just can't ignore
"What, you don't know what H_____ looks like? Eyebrows of doom?
-first year Sloanie on a certain professor

And some people have their limits
"I just don't feel like drinking tonight."
"But you're Irish!"
"Hey, I'm human too."
-Sudden seriousness on the way to the Kong

A FRIENDLY GAME OF B-BALL. It's not the NCAA but aging MBA students can dream. Watch Sloan and HBS face-off as best they can 6:30 tonight at the Z-center for the Sloan HBS Basketball Classic.

Meet the team. See Lance trash-talking from the sidelines. Listen to D-Lee and Kenny Lee spin some beats, do commentary and make fun of everyone in sight. Watch as the players try to maintain their cool under the weight of MBA type-A competitive psyches that are shouting to just kill! kill! kill!

Come celebrate, commiserate, contemplate at the ever reliable HongKong after the game.

CLASS PARTICIPATION
"We thought instead of a bunny hill, the company was taking a Benny Hill approach and chasing after whatever's fun and attractive."
-Chris R. in Managing Innovation

"Not so compelling. I think there are substitute products that have been there for a while. Like paper."
-Juan Antonio (with just a wee bit of sarcasm) on why E-ink isn't so hot

Good on paper
"You can't date a resume."
-Kechley, 5 pm at the Muddy Charles

New addition to the Blogosphere.
In a rare moment of non-levity on this site, we invite you to A Random Walk Down Tech Street - Mark Williamson's new blog. All tech, all the time from a guy who knows his stuff. Hey, I actually come out of my sleep-deprived stupor to listen to our man Willy when he gives his two cents worth in class. And a rare moment that is for yours truly this spring semester, second year.

SPRING FLING. Come help Gautam and Rob celebrate their birthdays at PEKING TOM'S tonight at 10 pm! Party goes on till the wee morning hours...

Details:
Peking Tom's, 25 Kingston Street - Boston
Red Line: Exit at South Station and walk out of the main train station. Then cross the large intersection towards downtown and get to Summer Street (You are on it when on your right you have 100 Summer Street and on the left 125 Summer Street!) Keep walking straight on Summer Street for a block and a half and take a left on Kingston Street. Peking Tom is on the right half a block down.

In honor of Rob turning 30, ("Irishmen never get old, only their stories do." - Russ K.) we have some salient links:
Book of Ages
Cats turn 30 too.
Heh.

Scheduling Parties
"He can get married again. I'm only turning thirty once!"
-Rob Byrne at the Plough and Stars

HONDA (B) at the ASGARD on Mass Avenue tonight!

9 pm is when our extremely talented band du jour take the stage and rawk on. Ethan's got a new look - from emo to thrash - and the rest of the boys are aching to play. Come out to party and support the band. What else are you going to do Wed. night, study?

YES, WE ARE FROM MIT
"Golf is like a step-function."
-Harris Rabin, explaining his progress at the sport

DRINKS TONIGHT
See you at The Good Life at Central Square at 6 pm for some low-key fun with our friends from Kellog. Witness the B-school match-up of which city's colder and where the beer is best.

DINNER CONVERSATION
"I'm like a really bad pharma company. A lot of things in the pipeline but nothing ever comes to fruition."
-second year Sloanie on his lovelife, Sunday night

The power of belief
"Entrepreneurs are crazy. Only the severely depressed have a realistic assessment of their abilities."
-Prof. Henderson after Managing Innovation class

Distractions
"I was looking at the ceiling, the window, hiding my face in my arm. Those things were following me from across the room!"
-male Sloanie on his recent Spanish class

Quick decision-making
"I decided this morning that I didn't want to take the midterm today. So I dropped the class."
-second year Sloanie

On getting tenure
"At MIT, there's a high turnover in junior faculty. And then eventually the senior faculty die."
-a lecture on incentives from an MIT professor

What they teach you in Marketing
"Other than sex, what else is fun?"
-Prof. Birger Wernerfeldt (aka the German Martin Short) on the club med (a) case in marketing class

Quotes from the Irish
"I know this sounds a bit strange, but I love your horns."
-Rob Byrne

"Time to get down."
"You know you have a problem when Rob Byrne tells you to get down."
"But I don't do Riverdance."
-Rob, Marcus and Joe Saturday night

The Innovator's Dilemma
"Sony then decided to sell their transistors to the rebar of humanity. Some people call them teenagers."
-Clay Christensen at a lunch forum

Keeping your margins high
"What are your operating costs at the Home Shopping Network? A piece of velvet. Some defrocked evangelists."
-Rock at advanced corporate fin.

Points of Attraction
"Dalein, without an accent? Yeah, I wouldn't take him home either."
-Jeb at the wed. night BHP

Two places you can find second years tonight: The Enormous Room in Central Square at 9 and at Derek Flynn's 30th Bday drinks at The Hill Tavern, 228 Cambridge Street.

Investment bankers are funny.

To quote:
As an Investment Banker I can tell you that (long term) third world revolution is just no longer hot. It was a great place to be in the 1950's. I'll give you that. Now it is just a very risky industry with only limited upside. Even Che, brilliant career, where is he now? His face is on thongs that are sold in upscale Soho boutiques. He once hid from capitalist pigs, and now hides behind Seven jeans. Women literally, if inadvertantly, wipe their asses with him everyday. Send me your resume and I'll see what I can do about maybe getting you an internship here at MassiveBank. Your revolution could make a great essay for HBS, and in a few years you find yourself made principal at a Private Equity shop. The buy side Guy. That's where the real action is.

This is what you get when you hang out in Harvard grad school dining halls:
"There's been a lot of vigorous physical activity on our floor."
"What, like jogging?"
"No, vigorous physical activity. There's a whole paragraph in the RA manual about it."
"Vigorous...oh. Oh. They really call it that?"
"Yeah, and Edna* [matronly supervisor of all RA's - ed.] was like, 'After all, it is spring.' "
-two grad student resident assistants

In the classroom
“Sometimes I like it when you yell at me.”
-Professor Antoinette Schoar to Dalein in Entrepreneurial Finance

Get yourself to these parties tonight, mix and mingle and send those quotes to us at Overheard tomorrow:

(1) LFM party at Trowbridge and Broadway near Harvard Square in house that is much too beautiful for our boys. But hey, they live there so make full use of it.

(2) Mardi Gras party at Club 141 on Charles. Madness, no space, great mixed drinks and music.

(3) Jeff Brown has an open invite to his place at Worthington Apartments in Cambridge too.

Some of us are staying home under the covers but don't let that stop you. Happy Leap Year!

Mark Kim's choices for karaoke night:
Sk8r Boi by Avril Lavigne
I'm Just A Girl by No Doubt.

'nuff said.

AT RIVER GODS ON TUESDAY
"You want my nipples? Come and get them."
-Joe N.

"Your idea about the club soda for the red wine really worked."
"I also know a neat trick for candlewax on leather."
*pause*
"You know, we always knew you were a little freaky."
"Leather shoes, I meant leather shoes!"
-sloanies after a couple of shots at river gods

PROFESSIONAL COURTESY
"Look, unless the client is extremely beautiful, I will never go out with her!"
-Luis Pita on a Tuesday evening

ON PIERCINGS AND THINGS
"Ok, first of all, if you're going to get your tongue pierced, you shouldn't do it at a rave."
-Lucia Wu

VENUS AND MARS
"You have to negotiate when you get your full-time offer. Remember that Fortune article? Men always seem to negotiate more than women."
"That's because men are always negotiating with women."
-Eugene's words of wisdom as Michelle tries to give Elaine advice

TABLE TALK
"You know that we always have to work the word 'naughty' into the conversation when we talk to you."
"The sad thing is there really isn't anything naughty about my real life."
"Well, what about your online life?"
-Y. and R. over dinner at The Helmand

WEDNESDAYS AT THE BEACON HILL PUB. You know the drill. Good luck and godspeed.

KECHLEY-ISM #1
Personally, I believe the key to taking over the world is owning the customer.

WHAT YOU HEAR AT RECRUITING
"So that's why McKinsey people are so happy, they don't live in reality!"
-2nd floor study room

SPRING TRIPS
Hey, with all those second years on the trip you're bound to get lucky.
-5:30 pm at the Tang lobby

TUESDAY NIGHT THIRST-QUENCHERS. From Mandy: Are you sad [honey, we are inconsolable - ed.] that the three-day weekend is almost over? If so, then join us tonight (Tuesday, 2/17) as we all live in denial! Charlie's Kitchen (10 Eliot St. in Harvard Square) is the venue of choice -- as always, we will start off at 9 PM. Be sure to bring your appetites for one of their famous American hamburgers!.

OUR VALENTINE'S DAY POST
"Hey buddy, seeing as your lady's away, we should hang out tomorrow, grab drinks..."
"JR, are you asking me out on a date?"
-JR and Kenny 3 am at East Ocean City

GETTING AHEAD IN BUSINESS
"Sometimes I think most of my success in getting a job in the financial industry has to do with three things: the ability to hold my drink, playing Golden Tee and quoting movies."
"What movies did you quote over the summer?"
"Caddyshack and Old School."
"Figures."
-More Canadian C-fxn small talk

SOUVENIRS
"What are those?"*mock incredulousness*
"Hey watch it, these are my love beads."
-Canadian C-function small talk with a certain gentleman back from Brazil

BEACON HILL WEDNESDAYS. From the weekly e-mail:
The Beacon Hill Social Club would like to invite you to join us this and every Wednesday at the Beacon Hill Pub. Come enjoy "Boston's Best Dive" with friends and cheap drinks.

People usually start arriving after 10pm. The Beacon Hill Pub is located at 149 Charles St., Boston -- inches from the Charles/MGH T stop. [you'll be glad of the inches as you crawl your way out of the pub after a few rounds. - Ed.]

QUOTES
"When they hear MIT Sloan, some usual reactions have included 'smart as rocket scientists.' and..."
[in whispers]
"This is ridiculous. Why can't they say MIT Sloan - devilishly good-looking?"
"Or how about MIT Sloan - good in bed?"
"Yeah, right - that'll work."
"MIT Sloan - we do our best work between the sheets."
-back conversation at the Town Hall meeting on the MIT Sloan brand

KARAOKE IN YOUR BOXERS. For those who want to see Jeff Gerson in his tighty whities. Or for those willing to avert their eyes while he sings onstage but want to go to karaoke night anyway - Tonight, Feb. 10 9 pm at Purple Shamrock (near Faneuil Hall). It's a 1 Union Street, Boston.

In his words:
At the Caribbean Ocean's Charity Auction, I offered to host a karaoke night.

BUT there was more.

If at least 20 people show up and donate $5 each, AND
Any one individual donated $50 at the auction,

I promised to SING IN MY BOXERS!

Thanks to Daniel Alarco (who donated $70 for some reason), I will proudly bear all (well, almost all) and belt out "BORN TO BE WILD" at the top of my lungs. Anyone have a bathrobe I can borrow???

Please join us for a few pints of Guiness and plenty of laughs. The main event will happen around 10:00.

Everyone who attends is asked to donate $5. I'll be collecting the money after I get dressed. It's for charity, remember.

TUESDAY NIGHT THIRST QUENCHERS. See you at Cambridge Common (1667 Mass Ave. between Harvard and Porter Squares). We will be there from 9 PM onward. - Mandy

SECOND YEARS' TOP TEN REASONS TO DROP CLASSES IN THEIR LAST TERM
1. It's an 8:30 class.
2. The class meets on Fridays.
3. The lecture was distracting me from my crossword puzzles.
4. A bed with soft pillows is much more comfortable than a hard desk at E51.
5. Cases? We have to read cases?
6. Problem sets? We have to do problem sets?
7. I need my three day weekends for skiing.
8. It's a 10:00 class.
9. Need to spend more time at the gym to get in shape for BVI.

And the top ten reason for a second year to drop a class in their last term:
10. "I took one look at the outrageous price of the course pack at CopyTech and decided it wasn't worth it."

BACK IN BOSTON. Welcome to sleet and snow.
"At the rate you're going, you'll still be drunk on Sunday."
-Hester to the birthday boy on Friday night

FOREIGN TRAVEL, WEIRD FOOD
"I'm not a fan of lamb testes. Or testes of any sort."
-Sloanie over lunch at Vina Sta. Rita, outside of Santiago

LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH LATIN AMERICAN EYES
"I can't remember what women wore before hip-huggers."
-Gautam at Avenue Sueca

DEFINITIONS CHANGE PER COUNTRY
"See, in the States, nylons are the things you wear to work. Stockings are the things you wear to play."
-a male Sloanie on the finer points of womens wear

ON SETTING UP FRIENDS
"Before I do, I need to know - are you single?"
"I'm single enough."

TEAM DYNAMICS
"I'm willing to accommodate my teammates' every need."
"Well, in that case..."
"Uhm, I take that back."
-Michelle and Chike over lunch

The only reason we don't want to be in South America right now with its great summer weather. PATS at the SUPERBOWL on Feb. 1 - it would have been amazing to see Boston go crazy when the Pats win.

Random quotes
... are we psychoanalyzing the Flintstones here?
... I've heard more Roxette in this country than I've heard in the past 10 years!

Random musings from Chile

..."you know what you call that? bait."...
...a street full of people at 4 am...
..."so what exactly do you mean by full service?"...
...giant plums on the sidewalk...
...a juggler in the middle of the street...
...best way to approach Chike - "are you from Brazil?"
...the meaning of cerveza negra
..."the club may be cheesy but the music's still good"
..."wow, i'm so glad to be here [meaning, not freezing Boston] right now"

QUOTES. We interrupt our self-imposed hiatus to post a number of interesting overheard conversations from Chile:

"Why does he get all the fucking attention?"
"Uhm, do we really have to answer that question?"
-Aaron and Michelle
After Marcus gets some young Chilean women calling after him on the street

"All you got to do is boom, boom, boom and it's done."
-Aaron again
We're letting you guess what context this was said in

But really, a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's a novel from our friends in Taipei.

Be it Taiwan or Iceland, you got to watch out for our man Tolu!