To those leaving:

Thank you for everything you all have given me. All of you--both close friends and acquaintances--have helped make the last two years here what they have been (and have often been the better part of that). To many of you I can only say thank you for the small things--the late-night lounge conversations, the answers to math or physics questions, the occasional total randomness--and that I would like to have known you better. Two years (one, really) is not nearly long enough. All the same, it's been good. Thank you.

Congratulations to the graduates and best wishes to everyone as you all move on, wherever you're going. I'll miss you, and I'd rather not forget you or otherwise lose you.

I'm not great at keeping in touch but I'm available on email and AIM and will also try to use this journal more.

Good luck to all.

Poem.

( Ithaca )

At the end of the IChO they gave us a copy of this. It's stayed on my wall for the last two years.