CLARK: Yeah, but I will have a degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.

The Tasty, at the corner of JFK and Brattle Streets, was the scene of Will and Skylar's first kiss. [23] The Au Bon Pain, where Will and Skylar discuss the former's photographic memory, was at the corner of Dunster Street and Mass Ave. [24]

Filming took place between April and June 1997. Although the story is set in Boston, and many of the scenes were shot on location in the Greater Boston area, many of the interior shots were filmed at locations in Toronto, with the University of Toronto standing in for MIT and Harvard University. The classroom scenes were filmed at McLennan Physical Laboratories (of the University of Toronto) and Central Technical School. Harvard normally disallows filming on its property, but permitted limited filming by the project after intervention by Harvard alumnus John Lithgow. [16] Likewise, only the exterior shots of Bunker Hill Community College were filmed in Boston; however, Sean's office was built in Toronto as an exact replica of one at the college. [17] To answer the second part, he determines the number of 3-step walks in the graph, and finds the third power matrix:

A 3 = ( 2 7 2 3 7 2 12 7 2 12 0 2 3 7 2 2 ) . {\displaystyle A CLARK: There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies . My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities—especially in the southern colonies—could most aptly be characterized as agrarian pre-capital — A = ( 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 ) . {\displaystyle A={\begin{pmatrix}0&1&0&1\\1&0&2&1\\0&2&0&0\\1&1&0&0\end{pmatrix}}.}At Reiner's request, screenwriter William Goldman read the script. Goldman consistently denied the persistent rumor that he wrote Good Will Hunting or acted as a script doctor. In his book Which Lie Did I Tell? Goldman jokingly writes, "I did not just doctor it. I wrote the whole thing from scratch," before dismissing the rumor as false and saying his only advice was agreeing with Reiner's suggestion. [8] The Bow and Arrow Pub, which was located at the corner of Bow Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, doubled as the exterior of the Harvard bar in which Will met Skylar for the first time. [21] The Baskin-Robbins/ Dunkin' Donuts featured in the "How do you like them apples?" scene was next door to the pub at the time of the film's release. [20] The Harvard Bar interior scenes were filmed at the Upfront Bar and Grill on Front St. E. in Toronto. [22]