Last night's section 3 host/hostees party was pretty fun. Ian manned the grill and Rachel kept bringing out pasta salad, so everybody ate and stayed (sorta) warm. I remember this being an exhausting, intimidating experience last year but my memories of this year will be of bonding with section friends who have been out of touch since the end of Winter A. Tonight Jenelle joins the party as we head to Zingerman's Roadhouse with a group of about 25. It will be loud, it will be fun, it will be great to be a Michigan Wolverine.

On that note, some thoughts about schools and admissions. My hostees are both TMI-oriented folks, both (I think) pretty ready to send in their deposit checks, and both fairly introspective about the decision. They also both said that they thought Michigan did a much better job of courting perspectives than did, say, Kellogg's MMM (say "triple M," a manufacturing MBA degree) program. One said he got five phone calls in three days from U-M people wanting to help, fired up about the school and wishing him well. That's what I'm talking about... people love it here. You come in, you watch a football game, you have a world-class experience, and then you wind up so proud of your school that you can't help calling and emailing and offering tours of your apartment because everybody needs to come here.