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The
Receptions
There are at least two major receptions at the
MTT. One, the Exhibitor's Reception, is held right before the banquet.
It's a good time to have a couple of free drinks and talk to colleagues.
There's
also the MTT Opening Reception on Monday evening. (Not nearly as much
fun, but we take what we can get.) Finally, the RFIC symposium also has
a reception.
Warning: these things are invariably pretty tame.
Organized
Entertainment
The Steering Committee usually arranges some kind of evening entertainment:
a sports event, party, hog castration, or something similar that engineers
might find exciting. In Baltimore (199?), they organized the Crab Dinner in the
Rain, and in Denver it was the Inaccessible Baseball Game. In Anaheim (1999),
the special event was Misdirection to Disneyland, in which symposium-goers
were given vouchers for Disneyland tickets and told by the morons at registration
that they were good for admission. They weren't.
Disorganized
Entertainment
There's always something going on, although it's probably pretty boring.
To the best of my knowledge, no MTT attendees have ever been arrested,
so most self-made entertainment is probably pretty tame. Well, what did
you expect? These are engineers, for chrissake!
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Vendors'
Parties
If you do a good job of sucking up to vendors (it doesn't hurt to spend
a little of your employer's money on their pathetic products, too), you
might get invited to one of the lavish parties they throw every year. Hang
around the trade-show floor and, sooner or later, you'll hear about these
things. Then, wander up to the appropriate booth and act like you want
to buy 200,000 of whatever they're selling. If you work this right, the
salesman may take you aside and slip you an invitation.
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