i think your advice about talking to everyone in the cafeteria was invaluable. i took that to heart. after the end of the day, someone actually made the comment to me about how outgoing i was compared to the rest of the group. good thing i didn't sit around all day doing crossword puzzles. thinking back, there were a couple of guys that were pretty disconnected from the group. who knows how the interviews for them went, but unfortunately, they didn't get the good news at the end of the day.

i had lots of good things about myself lined up to talk about during the panel. either by not getting the chance or forgetting, i would say i probably delivered about half of it. turns out, that was enough.