I made a short visit to the Olin campus today to bring Maya some screws for her roommate. Yes, you read that correctly. Apparently, they are needed to assemble a bookshelf. Why they were left at our house, I do not know. The real point here is that it does not take much to motivate me to visit Maya. After learning as much as she could share about her senior project (it is subject to a non-disclosure agreement with the outside company sponsor) and getting an update on the various companies trying to recruit her, I decided to return home by way of a shortcut through Babson College. Olin and Babson share a campus. On the way out, I came upon the recently restored Babson World Globe which has been relocated to a new setting in Kerry Murphy Healey Park. College founder Roger Babson dreamed up the idea of building the Globe in 1947 as a way to promote interest in world affairs. At 25 tons and 28 feet wide it was completed in 1955 and was the world’s largest rotating earth-ball of its day. It was covered with porcelain-baked steel tiles that recreated the continents and oceans. They fell off in 1984 and for the next nine years, the World looked like a big, rusted ball. A restored version was dedicated in 1993 and it lasted for a quarter of a century before it was once again in need of rejuvenation. This latest version once again rotates and I think the new setting is quite fitting.