[Glass-mit] Reminder: Fall 2025 Beginner Glassblowing Lottery--TONIGHT!!

[Cheo, Olivia]

Reminders:

   - Bring a pen.
   - Please do NOT hang out near the blackboards unless you are looking for
   cards from a prior lottery.
      - Cards are alphabetized by last name and separated into six groups.
      - There will be card stewards—find the one with the segment
      corresponding to your last name.
      - Once you find your card(s), put it/them in the bucket.
   - For EVERYONE: grab a blank index card, take a seat, and LEGIBLY write
   the following information on the card:
      - First and Last Name
      - MIT email address
      - Cell phone number
      - Fall 2025
   - Put completed cards in the bucket.
   - There will be a last call for cards before we draw names.
   - We're usually done drawing names by 6:30 PM.  If you're selected for
   the class, we're usually done with scheduling by 7:00 PM.

Additional scheduling logistics/details:

   - Friday classes are 2 hours long and start at 10:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 2:00
   PM, and 4:00 PM.
   - Practice sessions are held 6:00 to 8:00 PM on Fridays, and 4:00 to
   6:00 PM on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
   - The class will be 7 weeks long, beginning this Friday, October 03.
   The first class is spent going over critical safety information.  If you
   are unable to attend this Friday, you can not be in the class.

See you tonight,
--The MIT Glass Lab

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM Cheo, Olivia <glassblowing-request at mit.edu>
wrote:

> WHO: Current MIT students, faculty, and staff
> WHERE: 10-250
> WHEN: 6:00 PM **sharp** on Monday, September 29, 2025
> HOW: In person, no proxies allowed
> -----
> FYI: in the interest of efficiency (and our sanity), we will be purging
> old lottery cards.  What's an old card?  Anything from before the pandemic
> (i.e., Spring 2020 or earlier) is considered an old card.
>
> The exception to the above?  If you've been to a lottery SINCE the
> pandemic (Fall 2021 or later) and we've pulled your cards from lotteries
> where you weren't selected.  (All of the cards that have been drawn from in
> lotteries since Fall 2021 have been segregated from cards that were last
> used pre-pandemic.)
>
> Example:
>
>    - You attended the spring 2020 lottery and weren't selected.
>    - You attended the fall 2022 lottery and told us you had been to a
>    previous lottery.  We pulled your spring 2020 card to add to the selection
>    pile.  You weren't selected.  Your spring 2020 and fall 2022 lottery cards
>    are now segregated from the cards of those who only attended pre-pandemic
>    lotteries.
>
> Reminder: once you get into a class, all of your cards up to that point
> are removed.  Continuing with the above example:
>
>    - You attend the spring 2023 lottery and we pull your two prior
>    lottery cards.  You get into the class!  All 3 of your cards are extracted
>    from the aggregate.
>    - You attend the fall 2023 lottery.  There are now no cards to pull
>    from prior lotteries, so you'd only have one card for fall 2023 in the mix.
>
> Confusing/convoluted?  You betcha!  Thus the plan to ditch the old lottery
> cards.
>
> Why do we still do the lottery this (analog) way?  Reasons include (but
> are not limited to) the following:
>
>    - We schedule the classes and practice sessions immediately after
>    names are drawn.  If we did the lottery electronically, we'd still want to
>    get people into a room to do the scheduling (negotiating conflicts would
>    take infinitely more time over email).
>    - We want to emphasize the importance of physical presence for this
>    activity.  If you're willing to show up in person for the lottery, there's
>    a higher likelihood you will show up for class.
>    - The in-person lottery helps us see if people can follow simple
>    instructions.
>    - It has worked for us for decades.
>    - Have you heard about what happened with other groups' electronic
>    registration a few years ago...?
>
> -----
>
> Hope to see you there,
> --The MIT Glass Lab
>
> P.S.  Don't forget to visit the ***25th*** edition of the Great Glass
> Pumpkin Patch <https://glasslab.scripts.mit.edu/pumpkin/> this weekend...!
>
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