January 20th- an important day for all us

FAR officially kicked off thesis season with our first eight hour work day.  Besides Rebecca's constant hacking, a few detours into Chinese You Tube land and Alice's potentially groundbreaking mathematical revelation- it all went pretty smoothly.

And before you ask, no the significance of FAR's first day being shared with a certain someone else's first day was not lost on us.  And yes, we do think the similarities are uncanny.

I mean Barack Obama is America's first Web 2.0 president, and we are BTH's first Web 2.0 thesis group!

The inauguration was Tweeted live all day, and Rebecca made her third tweet!

The inauguration drew record crowds, and the MSLS common room was flooded with students dying to join our meeting.  It was actually a bit ridiculous (yeah we're talking to you Val...).

Barack Obama is working to raise the consciousness of America.  He is collaborating across party boundaries to bring about change.  Wether he really is change we can believe in is yet to be seen, but man it's nice to believe for a little bit.

And today our thesis group discovered that we are passionate about raising global consciousness around sustainability. We are striving to collaborate with as many people as possible to understand the power of the web to rapidly increase the pace of our societal shift towards sustainability. Wether this type of collaboration is possible for a thesis is yet to be determined (please don't ask our thesis advisors their opinions), but we are excited to be the change we want to see in the world.