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28 Marney St. Apt. #3 Cambridge, MA 02141 42.370425, -71.09037 Map, Directions  Taxi: 617-497-9000 Weather ASCII Plan of Premises City assessment Neighborhood profiles Walk score: 94/100 Police Department (has crime report) Finding Housing Recent Photos Feb 05 Party Spring 04 Party: March 2, 2003 |
 | Gregory Marton ("Grem")
founded Highcastle in mid-2002 with Michael O'Kelly, and remains,
steadfast, a career grad student, teaching computers to give simple,
wrong answers, to English questions. |
 | Neil Zimmerman is an MIT climate scientist as comfortable discussing the political climate throughout history as he is with the unprecedented recent warming he doesn't study. What he does study has more math than his humble roommates can grasp. Whatever the weather, you're likely to find him making a gourmet meal or margarita from farmshare stuffs.
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Bernhard "Berni" Payer moved into the North room in early
September 2006. He didn't actually just show up on a bike,
claiming amnesty from grueling research at M.G.H., but in fact was
Werner's high-school friend. In his first weeks, he occasioned a new
teapot and an interesting evening repairing a Bissel deep cleaning
machine. He is establishing an Austrian house next door to MGH this
September, 2008. |
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Emily Soverel stayed in the South room from March to June of
2008, on her whirlwind way from an early diploma at Chicago through
Boston and the Bay Area to law school at UCLA in the fall. We had
great times with her and Sir Winston kitty. |
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Werner Olipitz moved into the South room in early October
2005. He is an M.D. from Austria doing his residency in
hematology/oncology, and fascinated by and addicted to research. He
is on a postdoctoral fellowship at the MIT Biological Engineering
Division, and we share interests in hiking, cooking, and good books.
Werner moved up to the Beacon Hill high life in February 2008 with
his beautiful wife, Mariella. |
 | Asfandyar Qureshi and
Grem were both TAs for 6.170 back in 2004 or so -- we had fun teaching
software engineering, and the subsequent home engineering worked well.
He is visiting home since the end of August 2006 while Uncle Sam
decides if they want compassionate, talented, medical computing geeks
in our midst. |
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Maarten van Zalk is making those semiconductors superconduct,
at such balmy temperatures as thirty or forty degrees Kelvin. He was
here from the Netherlands for two months in summer 2005 and making the
most of it, with plans for everything from sailing to hiking to taking
in New York. |
 | Michael J. T. O'Kelly co-founded Highcastle, but eventually got engaged to, and incidentally shacked up with, Kaijen. I miss them both, but it's great they don't live too far off, in the Boondock. |
 | Chris Wendt joined the Highcastle family in September 2003 and shattered the record for tenure as the "third roommate." He studies the Dark Side of the Force, once at MIT, but now in the field: first Stuttgart, Germany, and now Austria! |
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Julia Myers and Mareike Braun brightened our summer of 2004 at Highcastle. Julia stayed throughout the summer, helping us enjoy it, and Mareike for a far too brief four weeks in August, visiting from Germany on a rotation to study radiology at Mass General Hospital. |
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Mehmet Can
Vuran, pronounced "John", joins us from the Southland for the
summer while he interns at MERL
creating networks of flashy feelers that talk (in network terms, to
each other). He's fond of pickup soccer, pickup basketball, and
pickup doumbek. And cooks! Maria Victoria Serrano, Can's friend, is taking a class in legal English at Boston University. She is ordinarily studying at Salamanca University in Spain, to become a simultaneous translator. Her most appreciated language at Highcastle is Epicurean. Yummm. |
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Janet Chuang brightened our home during the first half of 2003,
saving the world through environmental chemistry. There were some
good quotes from Unnamed Teddy Bear #1 too. Janet became GRT at Epsilon Theta at the
beginning of July 2003, later graduated (gasp!) and moved on to the
Bay Area for a while, and now she's back around the corner on
Berkshire street! Yay for very local friends! |
 | Michael
Hinczewski lived at Highcastle from September 2002 until December,
was vegetarian, and loved tea. Earl Grey. Hot. Mike married his dear lady Dursen in August of 2002 and finally returned to her in Istanbul after a penultimate semester here. His insightful and highly metaphoric artwork is on extended loan for display on Highcastle's refrigerator. Thanks, Mike!!! |
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We're roughly fifteen minutes walk from any of Inman Square, Central
T, 10-250, CSAIL, Kendall T, or Lechemere T. That is, we're exactly,
right smack in the dead center of nowhere. Not true: we're close to
the Kendall Square Cinema! ;-)
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From CSAIL, (the collapsed new Gehry building), head North
across the Vassar and Main intersection, take your next left across
the tracks onto Broadway, fork right on Hampshire, passing the
Cambridge Brewing Company, and go behind it, taking a right onto
Cardinal Medeiros Ave. across from the Dante Alighieri center. Keep
going past Hawthorne, take a left onto Marney St. at Manuel Sebastiao
Square, and we're the second-to-last house on the left. From 10-250, exit Building 13, go under 37, across Vassar to the right of the blue-framed glass building and over the tracks. Keep going straight, across Albany, heading North on Portland, past Main St., Broadway, Hampshire, some small streets, Hawthorne, and finally turn left onto Marney St. at Manuel Sebastiao Square. We're the left hand side ante-final house. From Kendall T, walk through the Marriott, exiting the other side and taking a left onto Broadway. Pass the Draper labs, go another block or so, and take a right onto Portland St. / Cardinal Medeiros Ave. (they're the same). Turn left onto Marney St. at Manuel Sebastiao Square. We are the leftern penultimate house. It's about a 15 minute walk. From 77 via Cambridge East SafeRide, which comes on the half hour to the East side of Mass Ave. (by bldg 7), take it to stop 7 on Cambridge St. at 660 Liqueurs. Walk back the way it came past the church to Cardinal Medeiros Ave. taking a left. Take your second right onto Marney St. and we're the next-to-last house on the left. From Harvard Square, take the 69 bus and ask the driver to let you out at the Library. Walk right on Berkshire St. (or Cardinal Medeiros if the driver went too far) and find us on Marney St., the second one down. From the Airport Take shuttle #33 to the airport metro. Take the Blue Line inbound to Government Center ($1.25). Take the Green Line one stop to Park Street, and transfer to the Red line toward Alewife. Get off at the Kendall T. From Kendall, look around and find the Marriott. Walk through its lobby and either take one of the cabs on the other side (recommended: $5) or walk left up Broadway and generally see the directions from Kendall T. Of course you can just take a cab the whole way ($30). From 90 Eastbound, take the Cambridge, River St. Exit. Go up River St. across Memorial Drive and past Massachusetts Ave. (where River St. turns into Prospect St.), past Broadway and Hampshire to a right on Cambridge Street. Pass the school and library on your right, and take the next available right onto Cardinal Medeiros Ave. at Saint Anthony's Church. Pass Marcella, and take your next right onto Marney St. to find parking. We live towards the end of that block, on the left. |