Wish Granted When I Lost Hope!

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For years, I’ve been trying to attract college students to my meetups, and I tried all different strategies, involved external help, and organized meetings with some college officials – all in vain! On the eve of my last meetup, I saw several new names in the RSVP list, and I almost started to wonder whether it was some scam :).

And then, four of them actually showed up, and they were actual live students, and they listened and asked great questions and talked to my speaker afterward.

I asked them how they found this meetup, and they told me they were just “looking for technical events” and saw it popped up!

The moral of the story, I am afraid: “It’s not me, it’s them,” meaning that it’s not I do not advertise enough, but it’s there is not enough understanding of the importance of attending events of that kind!

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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2 thoughts on “Wish Granted When I Lost Hope!”

  1. It was often much the same with politics. Occasionally, a professor might recommend a meeting for extra credit if a speaker was to address something pertinent to a class’s syllabus and that would result in some students attending…

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    1. That’s what I was hoping for for years – and it never happened! That’s what I am saying: these people found my meetup completely on their own!

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