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Olin is located in Needham, Massachusetts, a classic New England town complete with a picturesque town common, plus restaurants, banks, a bookstore and other necessities. A large mall is about 15 minutes away by car. Boston, New England's largest city and a vibrant center of arts, entertainment and business, is about half an hour away by car or 45 minutes by train. You'll never run out of things to do in the world's number one college town, home to some 60 colleges and more than 250,000 college students, as well as world-class museums, restaurants and arts institutions. In Boston proper, you can walk the Freedom Trail, attend a concert at Symphony Hall, shop on trendy Newbury Street, eat in fine restaurants or check out the vibrant club scene--among many other activities. Travel one hour from Boston, and you can be on the beaches of Cape Cod; travel two hours and you can be skiing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Travel four hours, and you can be attending a play in New York City.
Much
of today's digital revolution was spawned on "America's Technology
Highway," the Route 128 high-tech belt surrounding Boston (and just
minutes away from Olin). Raytheon, Analog Devices, Boston Scientific, PTC
Corp., Lotus Development, EMC, Compaq, Bose, General Dynamics and Genzyme
all make their home here--not to mention hundreds of smaller high-tech startups.
Across Massachusetts, there are some 5,000 high tech companies employing
200,000 people.
Area cultural institutions and museums include the Boston Ballet, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Science, the Kennedy Library, the New England Aquarium and dozens of theaters and music venues. Sports fans can follow the Boston Red Sox, the world champion New England Patriots, the Celtics, the Bruins and the New England Revolution. In short, Boston is a great place to study, live, work and play.
