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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. It's a big lobby, with a
big dome. Hard to miss.
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. Except for those who are scattered around talking to people they know. If you ask people, we're either the "palindrome" team, or preferably, "El Google." Find me and say hi. I'm 31, 5'11" tall, rather heavy, with brown hair and a large head, possibly wearing a red winter coat or just a t-shirt, depending on the weather. I'll be greeting a lot of friends there. 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 at Eric's, 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 headquarters to check first, if you're the checking kind. But there will almost always be someone there. If you like,
you can get a nice big campus map by making a hard right u-turn-like thing after
walking through the main (outside-leading) doors of lobby 7 and going into the
information office.
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! -- Tom |