Seems to be a ton of dialogue to the last post. Let me make an addendum so I don’t appear so “narcissistic.”

The KSU VCD program is about 40 some years old and is regarded one of the top schools in the visual communication community. Every year the faculty throws parties, reviews, summer workshops, and other events that involve students and a network of alum. For almost 6 years now, I seemed to have fallen through the cracks (which I will take 50% of the blame for not sniffing out these events). This is just strange to me since I was in that program for almost 6 years and could not believe how many people are still in that community; even after 40 years. I have met through these events many decorated alum within the design community. We seem to be a tight crowd. Today, I still am in touch [on a daily basis] with at least 20 of my colleagues.

I also wanted to point out that it was almost 30 minutes after I made that post I was contacted by two of my professors who apologized for not having current data on me, and one who invited me to a special event which is upcoming. Yeah, I was pretty embarrassed. :-[