Seibel: When you left MIT, was it a hard decision at all, deciding to drop out of school? Cosell: No. In retrospect, it was surprisingly easy. I was hating school. It was making me crazy. MIT is really a pressure-filled place. And BBN was like the Promised Land. It was wonderful. They played with computers; the company was so laid back. It was more like Project MAC than Project MAC. This was back in an era when people routinely brought their dogs in with them. So pets were padding up and down the halls; people were working day and night. I started working part-time because I almost always had
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