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...tech job fair. In an attention-grabbing booth on one side of the gym at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recruiters from Microsoft make work for the software giant seem like a highly paid extension of college life: a video shows young men and women at the Redmond, Wash., headquarters playing with Nerf toys between all-night bouts of writing code. Nearby, the Boeing booth touts its work on the space station. But Dongxia (pronounced doong-shee-ah), 32, like many of the 500 techies mobbing the job fair, is soon drawn across the gym to a navy-blue booth...
...Microsoft cafeteria in Redmond, Wash., the government's antitrust suit against the company is frequently discussed among people who (like me) have no inside knowledge of what is actually going on in the negotiations. Slate, the online magazine I edit, is owned by Microsoft, so discount anything I say accordingly as you please. But having lived and worked among them for four years, I have found the attitude of folks inside the company pretty interesting, and maybe you will too. Not people like Bill Gates, or those who write the legal briefs and press releases, but the ordinary software developer...
Intrigued? The best place to launch your hunt is eeggs.com run by Redmond, Wash., programmer David Wolf. Like Alice, Wolf had no idea what he was getting into when he started the site. "I thought there were maybe 10, 15 eggs," he says. It now gives instructions for cracking more than 1,500 software-based eggs. That's a heck of a lot of secret Narnias. And you'll never know how many more are out there until you start burrowing through that secret digital wardrobe...
...relationships, "I said to love each other, but not this much," even appears on the chart itself. Dormcest, floorcest even--heck, why not? Might as well enjoy the neighbors before the year ends. With first-years eyeing their new Houses, the post-break-up problems of intra-dorm relations wash away. Until then the Pack will keep juices flowing and the doors locked...
This past weekend, Martin bounced back from his disappointing NCAA performance with a fifth-place finish in the 1500 free at the Phillips 66 National Championships in Federal Way, Wash...