Thank you! Your experience and that thread are both very useful.

I am sorry to hear that you might not attend. If I showed up in Madison a day early, would you be interested in hanging out with me? I'm thinking about it because my daughter is graduating from Reed on May 18, and I don't know what to do with the few days in between. Maybe she'll want to rent a car and go sightseeing with me, or maybe she'll have a job! And be eager to start! "What are you going to do after you graduate" is a question I am carefully not asking at this point.