Box 1554

Folks who go way back to the 1990s black-and-white issues of FSM may remember that Box 1554 was my address at Amherst College, 1992–1996.

I was extremely, well, not popular, but certainly well-known at the campus post office for the amount of mail I got—not only submissions, subscriptions and correspondence, but packages of CDs to review (yay!).

For reasons I still don’t understand, there were two deliveries a weekday—a batch of mail in the morning, and another in the early afternoon.

I was back on campus last month for my 30th reunion (OMG) and visited the Campus Center post office. I have gone to every reunion, but there wasn’t one in 2021 due to Covid. So I haven’t tried to open this box for ten years...

Muscle memory! I couldn’t tell you the combination, but if I just walk up to open it, voila.

A new student union center is under construction, so this may be my last time to open that old box...ah, memories...

Thank you all for being a part of it!