Tom's Bethlehem Steel trip reports

Brief autobiographical aside. Tom mentions hating trip reports as a Bethlehem employee and his relief at leaving them behind when he joined MIT as an assistant professor.

Lucky you. I'm so glad I don't have to — when I left Bethlehem Steel, the thing that made me most happy was to no longer have to write a trip report. Whenever I traveled for Bethlehem Steel, I'd have to come back and write a trip report. "Well, I went to Pittsburgh to see Westinghouse and met with you know, blah blah." I was so happy when I came back here as an assistant professor, I didn't have to write trip reports. I was also very happy when I graduated from school and no longer had to take exams. Although there's still some types of exams you have to take.

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