[Palindrome] Getting together at MIT on Friday

[Eric Albert <Eric Albert alumni brown edu>]

If you show up at MIT on Friday before noon, come to "Lobby 7".  If you 
don't know where that is, go to any part of MIT you can find and say 
"Where is Lobby Seven?"  Anyone you ask will know.

When you reach Lobby 7, locate the bank of doors to the outside 
(Massachusetts Avenue).  Stand with your back to these doors (which will 
be easy if you just walked in through them).  Our team will be hanging out 
near the wall on the far right.

Find me and say hi.  I'm 46, 5'4", wear glasses, have fairly-short, 
brown/gray/white hair, and have a mustache and beard that are mostly 
white.  I'll probably be wearing a blue winter coat with a hood in the 
back.  I should be smiling a lot.

I heartily recommend showing up before noon, because it'll probably be 
your best chance to get to know your teammates in a relaxed atmosphere 
until the Hunt is over.  (Unless you come to the pre-Hunt party here, 
hint, hint.)  It makes a difference.

If you show up after noon (which could mean 5:00 p.m., midnight, and so 
on), come to our headquarters.  Again, asking anyone at MIT for directions 
should work.  You might call one of the cell phones at headquarters to 
check first, if you're the checking kind.  But there will almost always be 
someone there.

How to decode a room number:  26-210 (our HQ) is a room in building 26 
(all MIT buildings are numbered -- I can't tell you how many Hunts have 
taken advantage of this property), and it is on floor 2.

[Useful fact: at MIT, bathrooms usually alternate by gender, floor by 
floor.  That is, if you find a women's room and want a men's room, there's 
probably one directly above and directly below.]

See you soon!

-- Eric