Results tagged “smart”

  • Survey says Boston is the smartest city in America, but we already knew it. [Daily Beast]
  • Boston is piloting a multi-purpose ID program for students that also makes it easier to keep an eye on them. [Boston Globe]
  • RIP, Billy Ruane, a giant of the Boston music scene who died of a heart attack. [Boston Herald]
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    Yesterday, the Globe ran a feature on MIT's "cool" side--the one where students participate in sports and theatre, and study things other than math and science. That seems all right--even engineers can be (and often are) well-rounded. We certainly know a large contingent of hard-drinkin', uber-athletic engineers (men and women). But then the article unfortunately equates the wide-ranging opportunities at MIT with the phenomenon of MIT girls posing for fundraising calendars self-described as "a thinly veiled excuse to ogle hot engineering and science chicks." more ›

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