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class notes : april 2002
by mimi yang, alumni class secretary
Hello everyone! I hope life and whatnot have been treating you well.
As always, there are wedding plans and pre-wedding plans and post-weddings plans to announce. Shishir Mehrotra just got engaged to Anjuli Kumar '99. They will be getting married after Anjuli finishes medical school in May 2003. Aaron M. Ucko married Yevgeniya Nusinovich '01 on June 16, 2001. They are now living in Washington, D.C., where Yevgeniya is attending medical school at GWU and Aaron is developing software at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Phyllis Wen and Alvaro Rodriguez tied the proverbial knot on July 14, 2001. They threw a "kickass" reception, and a fun time was had by all. And, of course, their buds from MIT, Yhanira Adan '01, Melina Agosto, Angela Butts, Jessica Fox, Paul Lopez, Ethan O'Connor '99, Eddie Ramirez, Marie Shieh, Lucila Rath and James Rath '98, were there to celebrate and bid them farewell as they left for their honeymoon in Canada.
For non-marriage related news, Carol Chow is working at Oracle in Redwood Shores, CA as a senior product analyst. She says that the sheer number of MIT people out in the Bay Area makes it difficult for her to not to hang out with MIT people, not that she doesn't want to: "I just happened to go swing dancing with Michael Li's '99 friends and she saw about 10 MIT people there. Joe del Callar '92 just joined my group at work a few months ago. I hang out with Piyush Bharti '98 all the time. Eric Pop '98 takes me clubbing and tries to introduce me to hot Swedish guys. When I was home, I was lucky enough to see Ozge Gozum, who came over for Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas lunch. Shirley Hung '98, Sarah Jatko '98, Kenric Leung '98 and I will hang out for New Year celebrations in San Francisco. And I hope to get to San Diego to see Simon Tisminezky in the coming months." One wonders if Carol has any friends that are not MIT alums. Meanwhile, Adeyemi Oreoluwa is currently based in Washington, D.C. in the consulting business with Booz Allen Hamilton. He is with the Digital Strategies group working on e-government projects. He says that it is so far so good and he has no complaints. He is thoroughly enjoying D.C. Every now and then he is busy with a non-profit that he and a group of Nigerians from MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Boston College, and Wellesley started in the Boston area to encourage leadership amongst Nigerian youth, and is somewhat like MIT's Leadershape. You can check it out at http://www.lynxcamp.com.
As for the not-so-serious news that should not be read by the faint of heart, there are two particular contributions that I received which really stand out. Perhaps they are trying to take advantage of the fact that they know the class secretary somewhat well. I have tried to keep the contributions in their entirety, except where I had to bleep out certain words or to edit for tastefulness. In any case, Dan Collarini has been sitting on his fat [bleep] overdosing on pie and vodka since August. He and Jen Frank fried another turkey and a Siamese cat. He's (apparently) having a blast. He's also suing Bugle Boy because the fly on a pair of their jeans malfunctioned, and Dan was arrested for exposing himself to a bus full of Catholic school children. Joshua Glazer was kidnapped by a band of pygmie Jehovah's witnesses and force-fed human kidney until he accepted Jesus Christ as his lord and savior. Rescued by a crack team of French Legionnaires, he now resides peacefully in Sherman Oaks, California where he earns his living knitting armpit hair into weaves for balding soccer moms. In other words, Josh has nothing better to do but to sit around making up crackpot stories to send in to Class Notes.
Because most of you still haven't sent any notes to me, I can only assume that the majority of the class are fascinated by my tales in the big city. Well, the latest update involves my high school reunion which I did not attend because I was stuck in Washington, D.C., like so many of my fellow alums above. However, some of my high school friends who also live in the Big Apple gave me spy reports, and I learned that a fellow high school alum who also happened to attend MIT with me is dating someone from our high school. Whether he is still dating her at the time of this printing remains to be seen. In November, my former hallmates Mary Ann Rasku and Priscilla Fonseca visited me in the city, and we reminisced about the old times while drowning our current doubts in bottles after bottles of … Dr. Pepper. I will have many more stories next issue as my NYU friends and I are planning a trip to Spain during spring break. But, as always, if you want your friends to hear about yourselves instead of me, send in those class notes!
Mimi Yang, secretary
240 Mercer St., #518B, New York, NY 10012
e-mail: galaxie@alum.mit.edu
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