Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: Are Undergrads, more valuable then working professionals? Message-ID: <1991Mar26.220225.19119@visix.com> Date: 26 Mar 91 22:02:25 GMT References: <1991Mar14.001156.15961@grebyn.com> <1991Mar22.152340.7836@dhw68k.cts.com> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 33 bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: >I assure you, exactly what I describe is done regularly. Indeed. Why, I've done it myself a couple times (albeit for general schmoozing with friends, not necessarily job-hunting), and I can think of at least one person that I see at every Usenix, and whom I have never known to actually have a badge... If you are willing give up the technical sessions, it should be possible to "do Usenix" quite cheaply. Transportation and lodging become the constraining factor... What the conference fee gives you is generally: - A free copy of the proceedings. - A free badge for the vendor room (or Uniforum, whichever applies). - A membership in the Usenix Association if you don't already have one. - The ability to attend the tutorials and technical sessions. - Free admittance to the reception [although Dallas turned out to be obnoxiously crashable this Winter :(]. - A studly Usenix nametag. If you can do without these (and can spare a relatively few bucks for the second and fifth things, if you want them), it should be just as easy to (ahem) network (sorry) as if you had gotten a discounted rate. You just happen to be there while Usenix is going on. -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- "Never tell people how to do things; Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." --Gen. George S. Patton Jr.