"How is the open memo any different from the closed memo if she is going to send around a list of cases we had better include? What is the point of all my hours of agonizing research? Why should my slacker classmates get a boost when I haven't slept in 2 weeks? This isn't an open memo! Its the closed memo on crack!"

-paraphrase of a concerned fellow classmates rant about the comparative values of a set of projects and their proper place in the cosmos. It went on for quite awhile really. I just nodded.