As an entering WUSTL Senior, I affirm your statements. The WUTE [1] club is a chill gathering of the hacker-types at WashU. We have a speaker come in from a loc

As an entering WUSTL Senior, I affirm your statements. The WUTE [1] club is a chill gathering of the hacker-types at WashU. We have a speaker come in from a local company every couple weeks, and the deal is that they have to write a check that covers pizza for us the meeting. Apparently we receive so many speaker requests that this is how we meter them - pizza money. We get the higher-ups from companies, ranging from the bootstrapped startup down the street to Jim McKelvey, using us both as a focus group and as a hiring source. The group is fairly underground, but those that are in it know their stuff and are dedicated members. [1] http://wute.wustl.edu http://wute.wustl.edu