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class notes : june 2001
by mimi yang, alumni class secretary
Kuo-Chiang Lian recently came back from a trip to Hong Kong, where his father is a visiting professor in Special Education at Hong Kong University. Kuo spent some time exploring Hong Kong and the surrounding areas with his family. Kuo is currently a first year student at UCSF Medical School, where Genevieve Yu is also a first year. He says that medical school is enjoyable, exciting, and a lot easier than MIT. "Fortunately, everything is Pass/Fail all over again." Kuo currently lives in a house with MIT alums Melissa Kanemasu '99 and Arjuna Wijeyekoon, MNG '00. Melissa is enjoying her new job at Live Oak School in San Francisco, where she puts her course 18 degree to work as a middle school math teacher and a third grade science teacher. She finds the work very satisfying and challenging. Arjuna is currently working at Oracle, doing what he does best, namely programming. The three enjoy spending their free time exploring the beautiful city and all it has to offer - especially the food!
Benjamin Cooke is studying applied math at Duke University and enjoying the warmer climate. He had a good time at the Chi Phi IB in February.
Krzysztof G. Sobczak is a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps, currently under training in Quantico, VA, and says he is kicking ass and taking names.
Evan Efstathiou is an assistant coach for MIT's Fencing team.
Heather Hooper is still living in Cambridge and working for Radar Solutions International, an applied Geophysics company in Waltham. She gets to travel all over New England and beyond, which she thinks is great! Her email address has changed to jere@alum.mit.edu.
Three days after graduation, Kristin Ellen Raven started as a full-time Chemistry research assistant at PRAECIS Pharmaceuticals in Kendal Square, where she had been an intern since the summer of 1996. In February, she and Clifton Mueller '98 learned how to ski during a company trip to Waterville Valley, NH. She would definitely recommend it to anyone that's never skied before: "We had the time of our lives." She deferred her admissions to the University of Illinois College of Medicine to spend this year "relaxing in the real world" - or at least make money and catch up on sleep. Now that her time is more than half up, she's more than ready to go back to school and will be moving to Champaign, IL, before August. After a dreadful summer in New House (because of East Campus renovations), she and Ben O'Connor were able to move to their apartment near Kendall Square. Ben is currently employed as a system administrator in the MGH Radiation Oncology department and plans to make the move to Illinois with her. They would love to hear from other "alum couples" that have figured out how to only receive one copy of Technology Review.
Charles O'Bryan Fleet is now working for American Management Systems in Golden, CO. Charlie still has plenty of time to enjoy the skiing, outdoors, and nightlife of Denver.
Mimi Yang, your alumni secretary, is kindly asking all Class of 2000 alums to submit class notes to Technology Review. She is attending New York University School of Law and racking up more student loans. Her apartment is getting increasingly smaller (if that's possible) and is situated in the middle of Greenwich Village. She has the wonderful advantage of hearing sirens, drunk people getting into fights, and high school students pretending to be over 21, at all hours of the night. She is still extremely happy to be in New York City and wish her friends would come visit all the time.
Mimi Yang, secretary, 110 West Third St., #414B, New York, NY 10012;
tel: 212-443-5787; e-mail: galaxie@alum.mit.edu
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