Re: [Leica] Now I'm OT

[Alexey Merz <alexey@webcom.com>]

Mike Johnston wrote:

> The most telling critique of my erstwhile alma mater
> --Dartmouth--that I ever read was that its main 
> purpose is to help prevent downward mobility.
> Didn't work in my case (I'm an editor, which, as 
> we all know, falls somewhere between yeoman and 
> serf in the hierarchy of the traditional American
> social classes). But it generally rang pretty true
> to me, twenty years ago at any rate.

It could be worse: you could be a postdoctoral 
research fellow, paid by the National Institutes 
of Health... a job that I will begin in March
- - at Dartmouth Med School :-).

Any of you LUGgers live in the CT River Valley?

Best regards,

Alexey Merz