It is graduation day and most people graduating are happy but Rob is anxious. Rob's parents are cutting him off and selling the house leaving him no safety net. After searching for months and getting no leads Rob is saved by a mysterious woman who appeared at his graduation. The woman recruits Rob into the mysterious I-Corp company. Rob thinks his business degree will finally be used and he will be doing what he wanted to with his degree. But Rob finds the job boring and wonders if this is what work is for most people. Until Rob's secretary shows him a mysterious infinite corridor that is broken. She then tells Rob that the corridor was broken and the real reason he was recruited was to help fix the corridor. Rob doesn't believe his secretary and finds the situation absurd. That unbelief ends up trapping Rob in the infinite corridor and into a bigger war between the master of the white corridors and the master of the nightmare black corridors. Now Rob is lost moving from door to door and world to world. Will Rob be the champion the master of the white doors needs him to be? How many worlds and people will he save along the way? Will Rob find his way home and out of the infinite corridors?

How a bottom-up problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset has nurtured entrepreneurship at MIT. MIT is world-famous as a launching pad for entrepreneurs. MIT alumni have founded at least 30,000 active companies, employing an estimated 4.6 million people, with revenues of approximately $1.9 trillion. In the 2010s, twenty to thirty ventures were spun off each year to commercialize technologies developed in MIT labs (with intellectual property licensed by MIT to these companies); in the same decade, MIT graduates started an estimated 100 firms per year. How has MIT become such a hotbed of entrepreneurship? In From the Basement to the Dome, Jean-Jacques Degroof describes how MIT's problem-solving ethos, multidisciplinary approach, and experimental mindset nurture entrepreneurship. Degroof explains that, at first, the culture of entrepreneurship sprang from such extracurricular activities as forums, clubs, and competitions. Eventually, the Institute formally supported these activities, offering courses in entrepreneurship. Degroof describes why entrepreneurship is so uniquely aligned with MIT's culture: a history of bottom-up decision-making, a tradition of academic excellence, a keen interest in problem-solving, a belief in experimentation, and a tolerance for failure on the way to success. Entrepreneurship is the logical outcome of MIT's motto, Mens et Manus (mind and hand) ), translating theories and scientific discoveries into products and businesses--many of which have the goal of solving some of the world's most pressing problems. Degroof maps MIT's current entrepreneurial ecosystem of students, faculty, and researchers; considers the effectiveness of teaching entrepreneurship; and outlines ways that the MIT story could inspire conversations in other institutions about promoting entrepreneurship.

NOW IN PAPERBACK-FROM THE AUTHOR OF MARSBOUND Grad- school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself-or so he thinks.