Most guests are living in New York, but a few traveled from New Jersey and Boston. Graduation years ranged from 1994 to 2013 and professions included finance, academia, tech, the public sector and start-ups. Most guests were meeting one another for the first time, while others had studied together at NES or had already met at previous reunions. Alums discussed recent NES developments, the Commencement Ceremony, which had taken place the day before in Moscow, networked and got to know one another. First-comers received the latest NES Alumni Magazine and NES Paper and eagerly flipped through the pages.