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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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1 April 2001 - 11:47 pm
I spent that vast majority of this weekend hanging out (and evaluating) eleven high school freshman who were competing for about $16,000 (per year) of scholarship money (all eleven were guaranteed half tuition, but only six will get full-tuition plus a stipend). I had a really great time hanging out with the finalists, and I didn't have to use my meal plan all weekend (until this afternoon, I hadn't used my meal plan since Thursday around breakfast time -- you know, about 3:30pm). Anyway, on Saturday the contestants had to do a group project and I was one of the eight students who had to rank them based on how they worked in a group (my vote was 1/28th of the overall tally for who gets the scholarship). It was really tough to rank them. Especially since I got the impression they were all a lot smarter than me. Certainly smarter than I was as a high school senior. I'm really curious to see who gets awarded Langsdorf (full-tuition) scholarships.
On Saturday night, all of the finalists plus all of the current scholarship holders -- about 40 in all -- went to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory on Laclede's Landing and then Rich Unger invited everyone over to Mr. Loft. I played hearts with Chris Hill, Chris Hackmann, Miranda, a couple of the finalists, and a few others -- eight in all. The rest of the merit people watched Tron, a movie I should probably rent at some point as its a computer move I've never seen. Mr. Loft is very nice. It's huge(5,000 sq. ft., most of which is in one big room), got a freight elevator, hardwood floors -- it's awesome. Should you ever find yourself on the Mr. Loft mailing list (like me) and get invited to a party, you should definitely go.
Posted by on 1 April 2001 at 11:47 PM
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