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Take a look and tell me if it's a nice place to go to for a PhD, will you? 
LOL! 
Jon, I'm not sure what your research interests are, but local pride compels me to point out that numbers 20, 38, 47, 48, and 66 on this list are located on our campus, while MIT has, well, none of them. 
Plus, how could you resist wanting to go to school in
Okay, I've done my recruiting duty for the academic year.
Heh.
Plus, how could you resist wanting to go to school in
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Okay, I've done my recruiting duty for the academic year.
Heh.
If you are flying into Boston, beware of the shuttle bus drivers, as well as the taxi drivers, they've got serious turf wars going on there and they will drag you into it. I was there in April for a conference. It's really brutal-after my dreadful experience getting from the airport to Cambridge-I decided to ask the hotel concierge for advice on how to get back to the airport, and man I got an earful on the nonsense going on in the transportation realm there in Boston. And I thought the taxi drivers you encounter on arrival in Egypt were bad, but they really are nothing compared to the awful people in that business in Boston. I was not impressed with the cities-the streets are like mazes (nothing like our perfectly straight grid system here in Chicago), the subway system was antiquated, and it is quite an unnatural feeling to be in a place where about 85% of the population is between the age of 18 and 22.
Hi Martin!
It has been a while since I was in Boston. It is (I feel) a college town in the area where Harvard is located. Not too sure about the rest of Boston.
I think the "T" which is the train public transportation system has a stop at the airport and will bring you into town. If you do not have a lot of luggage that may be your best, easiest and cheapest way into the city. You might be able to walk to the hotel. Also, suggest you check with the hotel you are staying at and find out if they pick up passengers at the airport also.
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If the hotel is in Cambridge, they aren't allowed to send a free shuttle to pick you up at the airport...that's one of the tidbits of Boston taxi politics I learned from the hotel concierge...but the taxis must take you for a fixed fee if you are going or coming from Cambridge...that was the compromise the taxi drivers had to accept when the hotels balked at their trying to monopolize the business.
So, no actual leads from anyone? 
Hello from MIT! I'm here with Daryl Hawes using their free wireless and talking about Moodle blogs.
Now I'm really sorry I didn't stay the extra day... 