Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember that while we were at Harvard, Mark took the class Space, Time, and Motion in the Natural Sciences Department during his freshman year," he said. "He did so well in the class that during his sophomore year, Mark was a section leader for the class...
...single print off the plate. One could purchase the cheaper "etching," a process in which the artist scratched out places that he wanted to appear dark upon printing on a metal plate, or the more expensive "engraving." Engravings involved much more skill on the part of the artist; it took many years to train the hand to hold the carving utensil that shaped the metal beneath...
...this occasion, Goldman Sachs and Bear Sterns associates took the students out to lunch and breakfast. Later, the association toured the New York Stock Exchange...
Indeed, Bennahum describes how the social and familial element of computers took off in the early 1980s, a movement similar to how the Internet and email have revolutionized communication in the 1990s. Underground BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise...
Awen K. O'Reilly '02 developed a project along completely different lines. She took photographs of the group's empty studio and paired them with audio tapes of the students in conversation...