Welcome to 24th Grade

[Michael Oltmans <moltmans@>]

When I was in 3rd grade I remember asking my baby-sitter, "What grade 
are you in?"  She said that she was in 10th grade.  "Wow!!!" I said 
"You've been in school forever!  How many grades are there?"  She looked 
me in the eye and without even thinking about it told me there were 12. 
 "Twelve!  Wow!  I don't want to be in school for 12 grades!  That will 
take forever."  Well, what I didn't know was that I would not only make 
it to 12th grade but I would go on to college and then grad school.

For those of you just showing up in the hallowed and incomprehensible 
halls, of CSAIL, I would like to skip forward to the present day and 
replay the above scenario...

Imagine me running into my first year self (in the, now defunct, NE43). 
 "Welcome to 17th grade," I would say to my younger self.  "17th grade! 
 There are only 12!"  I would retort.  "Oh, you sorry little first 
year, that's only what they tell you when you are in 3rd grade so that 
you don't give up too early.  There are many more than that," would be 
the response from my older and wiser self.

"Wow, what grade are you in then?"  My brow would furrow and I would 
shuffle my feet some and say, "Well, lets, see, I would say, 24th."  My 
wide eyed and bushy-tailed self would become wider eyed and frizzy 
tailed and say, "24th!  My god!  How many grades are there?"

To find out what I would say to myself, you'll just have to come to 
tonight's old school, new school, perpetual school, whatever as long as 
its still in school, edition of the...

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             girl scout benefit -+-  5:30 pm  -+- 32-G9 lounge
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              For those coming from elsewhere: Building 32 is
               <http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=32>
          Once you are in 32, just take the G-elevator to the 9th
      floor and we will be in the lounge that you will be looking at
                    <http://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb>













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