So, rather than sign in as a visitor, apparently Jackie just swiped her old card and, finding that it didn't work, complained about such to the guard, who let her in since she did in fact have a card.
She was only there for yesterday, so of course her arrival immediately started a Mafia game, but we stopped after a few games when Evan came in saying "So it seems there are some second-years who think they don't have enough work to do...". I don't know what the problem sets he was carrying were, but I left before getting one, and got back to work on graphs, when of course really I should have been working on geometry, but I didn't have that with me as I'd lent it to Rebbecca.
As for today.
So Etienne comes into the 5th floor lounge asking Josh what he'd do if accosted by fundamentalist Christians on the street. Apparently he had been so, somewhere on Commonwealth Ave, near CVS. Josh put on his Yale baseball cap (so they wouldn't see his kipa and immediately recognize him as Orthodox and therefore not bother trying to convert him) and we set out to find them (well, I finished up theeasy group theory geometry problem I was doing first, but anyway...). It was Josh, me, Dan is Wrong[0], Anton, Lucas, and Steve. "They don't prey on people in large groups", Josh noted. "We should split up." After spending some time trying to find them, and then waiting for them to finish talking to the person they were currently talking to, and then following them across the street, and then waiting, Josh went over and sat down next to them, pretended to do some work, and then asked for the time, which is when they launched their script at him. We went over one at a time.
Actually they picked him out as a well-educated Orthodox Jew pretty quickly when he almost immediately started pointing out mistranslations and lost connotations in their Bible quotes. So we all went over, slowly. When I got there Josh was asking them how they knew they weren't worshiping an evil God, with Satan actually good. How could you tell the difference? "Because we feel him in our hearts." Hooray for having trouble with hypotheticals. Rather like Dan. :P Eventually it got to them saying about how you had to feel God in your heart, and Josh explaining how all the Old Testament leaders knew about God intellectually considerably before ever having any sort of emotional ties to Him, e.g. Abraham, Jacob, Moses...
"But it says 'You must search for God with all your heart-'"
"In Middle Eastern cultures the heart is considered the center of thought! If it meant it emotionally, it would say 'You must search for God with all your liver'!"
At that point they said he was intellectualizing it too much and that they had to leave.
Presumably they'll be back.
Thankfully Dan was off in his own argument with a different one and staying away from everyone else.
Fergie was accosted by them at one point too, but he just tried to get rid of them quickly. Next time he says he'll try claiming he's a Satanist, or try claiming that he believes sex is God.
...OK, I now have just about none of my geometry done. Yipes.
...oh, and my score on the midterm was 157. I also got -50 for putting "Tomorrow" as the date, -50 for "Whole blue book, too few problems", -48 for "being a musical robot", and -15 because "Harry, I don't like you".
-Sniffnoy
[0]Well, we called him that last year.
--
"I give up," said Pierre de Fermat's friend. "How DO you keep a
mathematician busy for 350 years?"
She was only there for yesterday, so of course her arrival immediately started a Mafia game, but we stopped after a few games when Evan came in saying "So it seems there are some second-years who think they don't have enough work to do...". I don't know what the problem sets he was carrying were, but I left before getting one, and got back to work on graphs, when of course really I should have been working on geometry, but I didn't have that with me as I'd lent it to Rebbecca.
As for today.
So Etienne comes into the 5th floor lounge asking Josh what he'd do if accosted by fundamentalist Christians on the street. Apparently he had been so, somewhere on Commonwealth Ave, near CVS. Josh put on his Yale baseball cap (so they wouldn't see his kipa and immediately recognize him as Orthodox and therefore not bother trying to convert him) and we set out to find them (well, I finished up the
Actually they picked him out as a well-educated Orthodox Jew pretty quickly when he almost immediately started pointing out mistranslations and lost connotations in their Bible quotes. So we all went over, slowly. When I got there Josh was asking them how they knew they weren't worshiping an evil God, with Satan actually good. How could you tell the difference? "Because we feel him in our hearts." Hooray for having trouble with hypotheticals. Rather like Dan. :P Eventually it got to them saying about how you had to feel God in your heart, and Josh explaining how all the Old Testament leaders knew about God intellectually considerably before ever having any sort of emotional ties to Him, e.g. Abraham, Jacob, Moses...
"But it says 'You must search for God with all your heart-'"
"In Middle Eastern cultures the heart is considered the center of thought! If it meant it emotionally, it would say 'You must search for God with all your liver'!"
At that point they said he was intellectualizing it too much and that they had to leave.
Presumably they'll be back.
Thankfully Dan was off in his own argument with a different one and staying away from everyone else.
Fergie was accosted by them at one point too, but he just tried to get rid of them quickly. Next time he says he'll try claiming he's a Satanist, or try claiming that he believes sex is God.
...OK, I now have just about none of my geometry done. Yipes.
...oh, and my score on the midterm was 157. I also got -50 for putting "Tomorrow" as the date, -50 for "Whole blue book, too few problems", -48 for "being a musical robot", and -15 because "Harry, I don't like you".
-Sniffnoy
[0]Well, we called him that last year.
--
"I give up," said Pierre de Fermat's friend. "How DO you keep a
mathematician busy for 350 years?"
