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