While walking to catch the bus yesterday (ok, so I’ve been either a T user or a walker/biker up until now, but I’m discovering now how convenient the #1 bus from Cambridge over the river to Boston can be), I ran into my freshman roommate from college, who was also a roommate of mine one summer at CTY. What a strange set of circumstances that was, as I think back on it. No need to get into how the weird camp-to-college roommate transferrence happened or what it was like; let’s just say it didn’t really work out, he left our two-room triple at the end of first semester, and transferred to another school at the end of freshman year. So it’d been ten years since I’d seen him, and we chatted briefly about the interim: a PhD, a teaching position at MIT, still the same mannerisms and way about him. Add him to the list of CTY people doing impressive and interesting things these days. ‘Twas a long time ago.