After a few years of discussion, we finally found a time when Tom Button
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and Dave Treadwell
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could come back to Princeton and see how things had changed since 1987 and 1989.
Amy Seng
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was happy to describe the climate for the class of 2004 and Beth Lind
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could fill things in from the 1995 perspective as well as being a returning
alum. The dessert that TomR put together
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had Jane
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excited as they insisted on taking group pictures
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and then assembled the local version of a .NET team
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There may not be 850 of us but we are Princeton in service of .NET.
The talks were great (if the room lighting was not as great). Tom began
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with stories of life at BCG and then got happier
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as his life moved to Microsoft. Then Dave gave us his first rule
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his second rule
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which he worked at
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and then his third rule
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for success. As the talk wound down, the excited speakers could hardly
stand still
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as the lottery drew near. I finished my diet coke
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and then had to head home.
The next day, I helped Jane lift the paper
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and look inside
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to see that her marigold seeds
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had sprouted. This enabled me to go to lunch with Shirley and Maria
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Dave
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and Tom
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where we were able to have a long frank discussion from which I hope a wonderful
relationship between Princeton and Microsoft will emerge.