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To: Ilaine who wrote (36025)	8/23/1999 11:34:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Actually I went to a number of colleges, always ones where relatives were teaching, so I could get in despite my abysmal grades and lack of a high school diploma. That was at SUNY Binghamton. Wasn't a bad place then, Cuomo poured big bucks into education and all of the major state universities were doing pretty well. They've been thoroughly emasculated since, which I am not sure is a long-term bargain. It was an odd town; all the old industry had degenerated completely, and there were lots of really depressed areas (though no real crime problem), but there was also a huge IBM R&D facility outside of town, a big plant making high-tech flight simulators, and the university. All of the people employed by those 3 lived in their own upscale residential areas, and there were plenty of old places, most vacated by the descendents of the Irish, Italian, and Polish immigrants who used to work in the shoe factories, for students to take over. Good farmer's market, plenty of rural country around. Bitter winters, though. Could have been worse, except that they expected me to attend classes....