P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

There Are No Little Things 11: Meeting Edwin

February 12, 2023

Cathy was taking an evening course in political science which she said was amazing. I didn’t like walking across the Harvard Bridge to get back to MIT after I’d made it home for dinner. Snap decision: go to the class. I met Edwin Diamond that night; he went on to be my mentor and friend. He changed my life. Breaking my rule about going back seemed like a little thing at the time.

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