Two weekends ago RAND coworkers, family, and friends got together for our annual summer outing, and the setting this year was both stunning and stately. Only 25 miles from Midtown Manhattan but far removed from the hurried pace of the…
After completing my second year at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering, I was ready for a break. It was finally summer—that time of the year when students relax, take a break from the learning and the problem solving,…
Every architect remembers their first scaffold drop. I’ll remember mine for years to come. As luck would have it, my first voyage was not a warm-up on, say, a 10- or 15-story building, where I could get accustomed to carefully…
I recently had the good fortune to enjoy a heartfelt retirement dinner with my RAND colleagues after nearly 22 years at the company. Looking back, it’s been quite a ride. When I started at RAND in 1991, I was one…
Last Tuesday night after work six coworkers and I joined forces for our first foray in the Corporate Bowling Showdown at Frames, a bowling alley and lounge on the corner of 9th Avenue and 40th Street in Manhattan. With our…
On Monday night limbs went flying in our 11th-floor multipurpose space as a group of us participated in RAND’s first kick boxing class. Under trainer Bryan Ruck’s high-energy instruction, we jabbed, hooked, elbowed, and roundhoused our way through an intense…
The official start of summer is always a great day for me, and sharing it with this cutie made it even better! Last Friday RAND participated in our first “Take Your Dog to Work Day,”an annual event now in its…
I’ve always wished I were more athletic. Sure, I played some kiddie soccer and even did a stint on the crew team in my freshman year at college, but I’ve always struggled to get myself off the couch. Seeing people…
In October 1987, a 16-year-old boy who loved to solve problems was beginning his junior year at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, NJ, studying math and science and planning on becoming an engineer—the ultimate problem-solving profession. At the…
Each summer RAND selects a student from Robert Whalen’s engineering class at Richmond High School in Queens for a summer internship. The purpose of the internship is to give students a chance to see the different kinds of work that…
After finishing my freshman year at the University of Virginia as a civil engineering major, I was excited to land a summer internship at Rand. But with no previous experience and only a year of college under my belt, I…
Our busy staff is constantly running from project to project, so once in a while it’s fun to run for a different reason. Last week a group of 34 Rand employees participated in the 36th annual J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge…