[Palindrome] Getting Together at MIT on Friday

[Scott Purdy <smpurdy btinternet com>]

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 Eric and say hi.  Eric is far, far easier to find and 
distinguish from the mass of Hunters than I am. He's 5'4", wears 
glasses, has fairly-short, brown/gray/white hair, and a mustache and 
beard that are mostly white.  I'll try to make sure I'm near him. I'm 
5'10", wear glasses, have fairly short brown hair, and no facial 
hair. We'll both 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 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 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:  4-257 (our HQ) is a room in building 4 
(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!