Just went to a BBQ hosted by an MIT alum. There were about a dozen alums, and assorted family members as well. It was in a renovated lane house, which was such a dramatic change from the high rise life. Though it was 40 feet from Shanxi Lu, a busy, busy street full of shops and traffic, it was like you were in the country, it was so quiet.
The striking thing about the alums is that though many/most of them were MechEng or EECS majors for their undergraduate degrees (in one case, a PhD in machine vision under BKP Horne), all of them were in either manufacturing, or in finance, or consulting, or private equity.
Not for the first time, it's clear that the core business of Shanghai isn't what I'm doing...
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Bill's observations, started when we lived in Shanghai
