[Jeff Waegelin]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

Ok, since it is almost 4 am and I am almost the only one on CD right now, I guess I have the bandwidth to step on my digital soap box for a moment.

No, IEEE never gave me free pizza, per say. But, since the IEEE Club meetings at my college had a few people from my Electric Hybrid Car Club as acting members including president, I dropped by the meetings every once in a while.
After their appointed speakers were finished, the meetings usually ended with a pizza and soda party, and since I was a poor college student, of course I hung around for the free food and soda (even if I knew was going to be few minutes late to one of my classes).
A slice of pizza and a cup of soda was worth missing a few minutes of a class since I was usually at school for 12 hours a day (or more) anyways.

Oh, and the speeches and lectures were interesting at times too...

It's amazing how much free food you can find at college if you look for it, isn't it? The best time is the fall "mass meeting" season when everybody's holding big informational meetings with free food. You can go an entire week eating nothing but free pizza from all the mass meetings