The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture
I called an official at NASA to ask for his fax number. “What
are you going to fax us?” he asked. I explained: my resignation as
the faculty advisor and my application as the journalist.
“I’ll be accompanying my students in my new role as a member of
the media,” I said.
And he said, “That’s a little transparent, don’t you think?”
“Sure,” I said, but I also promised him that I’d get information
about our experiment onto news Web sites, and send film of our
virtual reality efforts to more mainstream journalists. I knew I could
pull that off, and it was win-win for everyone. He gave me his fax
number.
I just wanted the floating…
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