To keep in touch with classmates, some alumni travel great distances to attend college reunions and homecomings. Residents of One Columbus Place need only walk into their lobby. The apartment complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side is home to some three dozen members of Wharton's Class of '97 . That so many Wharton graduates converged in the same dwelling is not a complete coincidence. It's been fun, I think, to have familiar faces around.
People just drop by.
They knock on your door or give you a call to see if you want to grab some dinner or lunch. But Orosa insists she's not suffering from a Quaker overload-even though she discovered she could talk to two classmates who live above her through the vents in their kitchens. It also makes going to parties more convenient. You just walk upstairs. Heather Smith, who works for the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney, says she spots former classmates almost every time she walks into the lobby.