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the semester with an A on the final exam. I remember how motivational it was to know that someone believed in me. I take with me memories of the midwestern friendliness that so surprised me when I arrived in St. Louis 8 years ago. Since moving to New Jersey, I am sad to say, nobody has asked me where I went to high school. I take with me the memory of the shortlived puter science graduate student social mittee lunches. The idea was that groups of CS grad students were supposed to take turns cooking a monthly lunch. But after one grad student prepared a pot of chicken that poisoned almost the entire CS grad student population and one unlucky faculty member in one fell swoop, there wasnamp。39。t much enthusiasm for having more lunches. I take with me the memory of a more successful graduate student effort, the establishment of the Association of Graduate Engineering Students, known as AGES. Started by a handful of engineering graduate students because we needed a way to elect representatives to a campuswide graduate student government, AGES soon grew into an organization that now sponsors a wide variety of activities and has been instrumental in addressing a number of engineering graduate student concerns. I take with me the memory of an Engineering and Policy department that once had flourishing programs for fulltime undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students. I take with me memories of the 1992 . Presidential debate. Eager to get involved in all the excitement I volunteered to help wherever needed. I remember spending several da