Ditto to all that, and I think the next step for our student chapter is to connect with other student chapters in the area, which has never really happened before. The thing with official organizations is that there always seems to be some type of psychological barrier where it feels roundabout and difficult to doing anything through the organization itself. ID is such a small niche community that it’s really easy (and much more productive) to make connections with people by just calling or e-mailing them directly. That’s why I’m not partial most of the design organizations I’ve encounter because they just feel too impersonal, segmented, and non-transparent when I know there can’t be that many people running the behind-the-scenes.