Chaos's info-amnesty meme

[eclectic_boy]

Meme courtesy of carpenter.

Analogous to library-fine-amnesty day, or tax-amnesty day, this is the Things You Should Probably Know About Me But Forgot amnesty meme. If there are things you'd feel embarrassed asking me to my face (say, at reunion next month) because, "oh, goodness, I really should know that, shouldn't I?", just ask it as a comment to this thread, and I'll answer it. Since it's the amnesty thread there will be zero guilt or embarrassment involved.

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Comments

[tapas.livejournal.com]

How did you find SWIL? Who was the first SWILperson you met?

[eclectic-boy.livejournal.com]

I knew about SWIL from the college handbook (which I got along with my acceptance letter. I don't remember if I had any awareness of SWIL when applying, though), and I'm pretty sure I went to the Activities Fair, though I don't have a memory of it. Definitely I went to the first meeting I could (I worked at The Franklin Institute every other weekend during frosh year, so it may not have been the 1st meeting -- I was made a nonmember via special rule #whatever).
But if destined-for-SWILdom-but-not-yet-dismembered counts in answering your question, then on one of my first lunches in Sharples, I met ruthling while in line getting food, and we sat down at the round table in the small room table with someone whose name turned out to be DVS. That was probably the first Best Conversation of my Life (though there've been many more since), and it was (for me at least) the start of a rapid nucleation of the SWIL froshfriends for that year.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

Heh! Hi!

[glassonion]

You and Ruthling and DVS sitting around in the small room as 18-year-olds makes me smile. Like, a lot.

[metasilk.livejournal.com]

DVS--and oh! his great big smile--is one of my first memories of Swat, during my frosh year's activities fair. And then my memory gets muddled in time and I think of Live Chess and Jay and Perry and that must've been much later because I made those bishop drapy things, so that must've been the next year or something...

*happythoughts!*