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Friday, August 10, 2007

Oh, reunions!

Whereas a lot of us will be in the North-East,

Whereas we LOVE TASP reunions,

Whereas not everyone could go to our recent Bawston rendezvous,

Be It Resolved That we plan a new one after being reasonably settled in at our respective colleges.


We can have small ones that require little to no planning, but a slightly bigger one would be pretty cool (and by pretty cool I mean FREAKING AWESOME). I highly encourage random visits and mini-reunions (especially during holidays when and if some of us don't fly back home), too! Anyhoo, since I'm interested in getting back together, I mapquested our locations to see how far we were from each other.

Harvard & Brown are an hour away from each other; Yale is about 1.75 hours away from Brown; Williams is 2 hours away; and NYU/Columbia/Vassar are 3.25 hours away. Dartmouth is about 3.1 hours away. Cornell is about 6 hours away and Swarthmore is 5.12 hours away, while UPenn is 5 hours away. Princeton is...about 4.1 hours away.


Kenyon and UMich are like 12 hours away. Purdue is 16 hours away (same with Loyola, though it's about half an hour less). *cringe* Stanford is, obviously, on the other side of the country. UT Austin and Deep Springs are super far away as well. :'(

Then again, you could all stop being betches and just swim over to Puerto Rico during the summer so we can ALL have fun under the sun--going to the beach, trekking in the mountains, chillin' at the mall, and partying in Old San Juan (18 years old = you can get in anywhere! Weeee!).

I think that takes care of everyone. Again, this is using Brown as a reference point, because DUH, Brown = best place ever. ;) Haha, basically, I'm selfish and I want to see everyone. *grin*

Anyway, possible future reunions aside, the Bawston get-together was nice. :) We had fun, we draped, we ate, and we visited cool places. There are many pictures on Facebook for anyone who's interested (which I hope is everyone!).

Love you crazy kids!

P.S. - I'd definitely be willing to help with planning a reunion again. :)

7 comments:

Mindy said...

I second that motion.

Gary Z said...

I vote for NYC.

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Rough travel times to NYC
Harvard: 3.25hr
Brown: 3hr
Yale: 1.5hr
Columbia/NYU: 0hr :)
Vassar: 1hr
Dartmouth: 4.5hr
Swarthmore: 2hr
Upenn: 2hr
Princeton: 1.5hr

Kenyon, UMich, Purdue, Loyola, Stanford, UT Austin and Deep Springs are, like Aida said, crazy far.

But as you can see, NYC is a nice epicenter for most of the colleges. NYC is also a major commercial, entertainment, and cultural hub. Which, conveniently enough, also provides muchos flights in and out, not to mention rail possibilities.

With 2 different colleges with TASPers represented, it might also be possible for some of us NYCers to host someone (though I'm not sure about this yet).

Laura said...

I also vote for NYC. Looooove that city.

I'll probably be there for Thanksgiving, by the way...

mz. aida said...

Good! NYC does seemlike a good place, then! :)

Anthony Mariano said...

It would be nice if the reunion was in NYC around May perhaps when all of you are ending classes. Michigan gets out super-early so that would mean I could attend.

Maria A said...

hm, aren't most of us going to be pretty broke around May, in which case a late august (i.e after summer's work) date would be better?

Gary Z said...

Update:

I have checked with Columbia's guest policy. I can have as many guests as I want, for up to a period of 5 days. Because I have a single this year, I can stuff as many people into my room as I want. Logistically of course, I can prob only fit one or two people max on my floor.