There must be some other MIT grads on this nerdy site. So, show me your Brass Rat. Here’s mine. Oh, and for the uninitiated, it’s actually a beaver, the first engineer.
I hope the 1916 date is not your graduation year Although I see a possible 76 in the dam. My only connection with MIT is having worked just down the street in Kendall Square above Legal Seafoods.
The first was down in the docks, this was the shiny, new, posh edition. We moved there in 1982 and LS had recently opened. I've thought of another MIT connection, I was talking to the Lisp Machine people about porting our CAD programs to it, but went the Stanford way instead.
I went to that one down by the docks, about a dozen times. I left Boston in the summer of 78. You missed the incredible blizzard in February ‘78. Over two feet in a night, as I recall. It came so fast, in the middle of the night, that people were stranded in their cars, some of whom died either from carbon monoxide poisoning (running their cars as they became snow-enclosed) or exposure. For over a week after, military helicopters flew overhead. Cars were prohibited on roads inside Route 128 for a week. Restaurants in Harvard Square had walls lined with cross country skis. The sky was sooo blue. I heard the 1975 World Series screams and cheers, as I watched the game on TV with the volume turned down, through my open dorm window, carried all the way from Fenway, past the Citgo sign and over the Charles River. One of the more incredible moments I’ve been lucky enough to be present for.
I was living and working on the Jersey shore then. It was bad, but not as bad as further north. In central Montreal winter 74/5 I knew a number of people who would ski to work
Close 'nuff for gummint work! Spring Lake for work and Spring Lake Heights for a cheaper apartment to rent. I was there mid-77 to mid-80. Sailed on Barnegat Bay in boss's 18 footer, and learned to fly at Monmouth airport. I had few responsibilities then and had a good time.
