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MIT Class of 1982 Survey Results

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1. What is your net worth in dollars?

• 17 answered $100,000 - $1,000,000
• 39 answered $1,000,000 - $10,000,000
• 4 answered $10,000,000 or greater
• 4 answered $42

2. What is your annual salary in dollars?

• 16 answered $0 - $100,000
• 20 answered $100,000 - $200,000
• 15 answered $200,000 - $800,000
• 3 answered Really a whole lot
• 11 answered I work for love

3. How many times have you been married, or the nearest equivalent?

• 7 answered 0
• 48 answered 1
• 7 answered 2
• 2 answered Too Many
• 2 answered Not Enough

4. How many children do you have?

• 25 answered 0
• 7 answered 1
• 14 answered 2
• 12 answered Too Many
• 5 answered Not Enough

5. How many vacations do you have every year?

• 15 answered 1-2 weeks
• 36 answered 3 or more weeks
• 5 answered I don?t know so well how not to work
• 7 answered The line between work and holiday is a bit blurry
• 3 answered Work?

6. Where do you live?

• 8 answered Greater Boston
• 1 answered Cambridge
• 11 answered A suburb of greater Boston
• 37 answered Somewhere obscure
• 7 answered Wouldn?t you want to know!

7. The obscure place you live is...

• 13 answered Within 100 miles of where you grew up and not Boston
• 41 answered On the same continent as Boston
• 4 answered On a continent that doesn?t include Boston
• 2 answered The Pluto formerly known as a planet

8. How many countries have you lived in since graduating?

• 45 answered 1
• 8 answered 2
• 2 answered 3
• 1 answered More than 3
• 10 answered California should probably count as another country so its 2

9. Which of these choices best match how many places have you worked since

graduating?
• 7 answered 1
• 15 answered 2
• 32 answered 4
• 5 answered 16
• 7 answered Lost count

10. Do you have the temptation to change jobs soon?

• 27 answered Yes
• 39 answered No
Attitudes

11. Have you had a major lifestyle change in the last 10 years?

• 35 answered Yes
• 31 answered No

12. Do you wish you had a major lifestyle change in the last 10 years?

• 32 answered Yes
• 31 answered No

13. Do you make enough money?

• 40 answered Yes
• 26 answered No

14. Do you make enough love?

• 31 answered Yes
• 31 answered No

15. Do you love to give away money?

• 38 answered Yes
• 15 answered Yes

16. Please give some to the ?82 Do-It Fund!

• 29 answered Yes
• 12 answered Yes

17. Do you ever miss all-nighters?

• 14 answered Yes
• 52 answered No

18. Do you have at least one technogasm per week?

• 9 answered Yes
• 10 answered Yes but I wish for many many more
• 3 answered Yes but I?m trying to cut back
• 10 answered No, not since technogasm addict rehab
• 23 answered No

19. What describes your attitudes about the USA since graduation?

• 21 answered One long slide downward
• 6 answered Steady ascent
• 34 answered The usual ups and downs
• 2 answered None of your business!

20. Since graduation, who do you think was the best president?

• 19 answered Ronnie
• 2 answered George
• 31 answered Billy
• 1 answered Dubya
• 9 answered Hillary
Random and free response

21. Life got you down, have that itch for a change? What is the proper order for life

reorganization?
• 8 answered fast car, someone young and sexy, mega vacation
• 5 answered fantastic home, someone young and sexy, fast car
• 10 answered Close door, partition disk and install a second operating system
• 11 answered Give all material goods to charity, pursue spiritual enlightenment
• 21 answered Change nothing except find a lifeform who understands and loves me

22. Digit length ratio (2D:4D) is a M/F dimorphic trait. Men have relatively shorter

second digits (index fingers) than fourth digits (ring fingers). Smaller, more masculine digit ratios have been tied to aggression. What do you think?
• 3 answered Quit looking at my little index finger or I?ll cause you harm
• 29 answered Its not the size of the fingers, but how you use them
• 6 answered I?ll start looking and give you my report at the reunion
• 13 answered Are we done yet?
• 8 answered Does Homer Simpson have 5 fingers?

23. The best toyboy would be...

• 4 answered Malibu Ken and the beach house, why should Barbie have all the fun
• 4 answered Action Man and his Australian friend
• 13 answered Thomas the Tank Engine ? He is reliable and really useful
• 13 answered Just give me more processing power, a better video card, and more
memory!
• 9 answered The reunion is making me all sentimental, any of those lovely Tech boys
from 82

24. Do you believe in freeing the Endorphins?

• 20 answered Yes
• 4 answered No
• 9 answered Yes and Bob Dylan needs to sing a ballad to bring their plight to
international attention
• 6 answered No but we are having a barbeque next Saturday and everybody is welcome
• 12 answered Only if they renounce their nuclear ambitions

25. Psychologists have shown that memory is vulnerable to suggestion and implanted

memories. If you were a spin-doctor in the alumni office which memory would you try to implant?
• 4 answered Building stuff in the Hobby Shop was my life
• 7 answered The Tech won more Pulitzer Prizes than the New York Times in the period

1978 ? 1982

• 12 answered IHTFP means "I Had Terrific Fantastic Pleasure!"
• 16 answered The registration day movie was good family fun!
• 16 answered The Infinite Corridor really has no end!

26. When I walk down the street in 2006 and see an 18 year old wearing a Ramones t-

shirt I think...
• 6 answered Did I really waste my youth?
• 6 answered Are Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee really all dead? Long live Tommy!
• 8 answered Would I look fat in a Ramones t-shirt
• 10 answered No real thoughts but Sheena is a Punk Rocker competes with I Wanna be
Sedated for mental airplay
• 23 answered Nice shirt!

27. What is your favorite movie since graduation?

• ? Books are better.
• Amelie
• Being John Malkovich
• Blade Runner
• Brazil
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
• diner
• Diva
• Dr. Strangelove
• Groundhog Day
• Howard's End
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• Hunt For Red October (there's nothing like a Russian sub captain with an English
accent!)
• I have no idea at all!
• Independence Day
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Lord of the Rings-Return of the King
• Lost in Translation.
• love actually
• Master of Disguise (2002, Dana Carvey). What a hoot!
• Matrix
• Maybe The Princess Bride, since I watched that the most with my children when they
were young.
• My Dinner with Andre
• No good movies since Harold and Maude
• Overall: Sixth Sense; The Fugitive; The Sting and Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid
(also two of favorite movies before graduation ... perhaps question's wording could have been better ;-) Action: Terminator; Predator; 300 Comedy: Ace Ventura 2
• Pirates of the Carabbean
• Rain Man
• Shawshank Redemption
• Shrek
• spiderman
• Spinal Tap
• The Princess Bride
• The Usual Suspects---so twisty!
• This is Spinal Tap
• Toy Story
• Waking Ned Devine
• Who has time to see movies?
• Zoolander

28. What is your favorite new thing/invention/technology since graduation?

• Ambien
• Automated Web forms, like this one!
• cell phone
• cellular technology
• commercially viable hybrid cars
• Computer
• digital camera
• Distributed Computing
• email
• Fiber to the Home! Yeah! That or seat warmers- how did we live without them in the
frozen north?
• flash drive
• Google
• having kids!
• Heliboarding
• Hitachi Magic Wand
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• http
• hybrid autos
• Internet
• iPhone!!!
• IPod
• iPod
• iPod
• Laptop computer
• Macintosh
• MP3 music players
• Nintendo Wii. Finally, something that will keep the kids from fighting (except when
fighting over the Wii).
• Palm Pilot
• PDA
• PDA Cell Phones
• personal digital assistants, the ones with batteries
• Sex
• Sex - also my favorite new thing before graduation too.
• The Internet (hands down!)
• The WEB.
• The world wide web
• TiVo
• web browser
• WiFi!
• WIRELESS (laptops, cell phones) - I love not being bound to cables and wires
anymore!
• wireless internet access

29. What is the most interesting place you ever lived or visited?

• "Wet Dream" heliboarding run in BC
• Australia
• awe-inspiring: Hawaii, interesting: Yemen
• Beijing
• Bhutan
• butterfly farm, penang, malaysia
• Cambridge. MA.
• Chatham, Cape Cod
• China, especially Beijing and Shanghai. The culture is fascinating and the ancient
history is amazing!
• Clonmacnois or Dingle
• Death Valley in August - it is completely surreal, but real
• Florence, Italy
• Honfleur, France
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• I've got no use for travel
• Iguazu Falls, Brasil and Argentina
• India
• India
• Ireland (just love it!)
• Italy
• Japan
• Japan
• Japan
• Lake Como Italy
• Live Volcanos in Hawaii and Costa Rica
• Lived in a sustainable yurt in Patagonia, Chile. Visited interior of New Guinea,
Antarctica, and Pitcairn Island.
• Lived in Barcelona Spain for 6 months - fantastic experience.
• Lived: Sydney Australia Visited: Yellowstone; Any cruise ship journey; And that girl
when I was in 7th grade
• London
• MIT Campus, of course!
• Montemayor, Spain
• my house
• napa valley
• Never-never land
• New Mexico-all of it!
• no. 6 club
• One month in Rio de Janiero took 4 years off my life and was worth every minute.
• San Diego
• Singapore
• Sydney, Australia
• Tahiti
• Turkey and Egypt....places where civilizations wash over each other- they create really
interesting places to visit.
• Two: Amsterdamn, Molokai
• Venice during Carnival
• Waycross, Georgia.
• Yellowstone National Park

30. Final thoughts?.. Anything you want to tell the class?

• "Youth is wasted on the young" --George Bernard Shaw
• As the years accumulate, time seems to speed up. I guess we should not always wait till
the bext number milestone to reconnect. All the best and ENJOY.
• change the world. fast.
• Enjoy every day as if it were the first and last.
• Find time
• how did we get so old?
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• I haven't wasted the WHOLE 25 years.
• It's been 25 years. Have you been true to yourself yet?
• It's funny how we seem to know that time has passed by so quickly . . . yet we never did
learn what time really is in all those Physics classes!
• It's great to see everyone who's attending!
• LMB
• Look me up.
• MIT gave me the tools to be the tool that lets nme out-tool all others. I tooled and
therefore I am
• My co-worker is attending her 5th tech reunion. How can we possibly be at our 25th?
• No.
• Previously, I thought attendees at 25th reunions were people who had not much to look
forward to and who would coast for the rest of their (then short) lives. Previously...
• Remember, it's not the years, it's the mileage.
• Ristaffel, anyone?
• See you at the 50th!
• Senior year on a rare date at the "fabulous ding-ho" restaurant/comedy club, Jay Leno
was the unknown M.C. Jay came by my table, asked me where I was from and when I responded M.I.T., he said he grew up in Somerville and that he and his friends used to steal our bicycles. That was perhaps my social highlight in four years.
• Spend time with your kids -- they're more important than anything else you'll do.
• We're not old...we only look that way because our eyes have gotten fuzzy.
• What a long, strange trip it still is!
• What's it all about? Does anyone have a great answer?