To: Vanessa Layne <dagoura@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: teach an IAP class?
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:03:39 EDT."
             <200010101603.MAA12844@ten-thousand-dollar-bill.mit.edu> 
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:31:09 -0400
From: Alex <xela>

You're doing, and have been for about 10 years, what lost of people
who don't finish and/or weren't course VI end up doing after MIT.
From my observation, you've done it more consciously than a lot of
people, and I've *seen* you give good, well thought-out advice to
undergrads about life in the real world.  I think talking about it
in an organized way would be a valuable service to the community.
And I'm in a position to sponsor you doing it.

While I don't have a pressing need for classes, I don't have as rich
a selection as last year.  On the lame and feeble front:  I don't
agree, but I take fighting the good fight against entropy as a moral
imperative anyway, so probably would just dig in and try harder if
I did.


> 
> ?  I don't generally wind up with a burning desire to teach classes in a
> vacuum, and if I do, the SCA generally will soak up any available urge.
> 
> Do you have a pressing need for classes?  I confess I think of IAP as
> increasingly lame and feeble, which discourages me from wanting to
> bother.
> 
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Carl Alexander                                                    KD7GUR
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