Optional settlers

[sniffnoy]

Well, everyone said that today being a Friday, we would get a überproblemset today. However, it only had 18 problems on it, so, naturally, most of us heavily procrastinated, even with the Mandatory Fun scheduled tomorrow. So instead we had a bit of optional fun on our own: n straight games of SoC. The people here are obsessed with SoC, it seems. I've been trying to get people to learn Gnostica, but they're all too busy playing Settlers. Well, I'll obviously teach them eventually, if only because they get tired of SoC. :P Well, we've got a few people wanting to play Illuminati (surprisingly, it seems that no-one brought Risk or Diplomacy, so this is the only long game around), but we never exactly get the time for that. I don't know how much time is taken up by the Mandatory Fun, and we probably won't be playing on Sunday when we're all actually doing our problem sets. Of course there will be other weekends... speaking of which, I really ought to work on my pset. I'll go do that now.

EDIT: Of course people brought Risk and Diplomacy. What was I thinking? There are people over in Franklin Lounge trying to get players right now for an obviously not right now game of Diplomacy. And I never did get back to working on my pset. I think I actually *will* go do that now.

Comments

[blenrock.livejournal.com]

I can't believe there's mandatory fun. That's ridiculous on so many levels. Reminds me of an academic camp I went to in seventh grade.

Oh and... 18 problems can take a long time. A long, long time.

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

Nonono, that's "Mandatory Fun". Capitalized. OK, so I added that bit. But they actually called it that.

Yes, 18 problems can obviously take a long time, as so can 16, but the point is that it can't take a huge amount of time *longer* than 16 problems. And some people have noted that some of them are really easy. At least, I think they have.

[blenrock.livejournal.com]

I did a 16-problem problem set today! It took me 20-something minutes. Of course, it was for one of the AoPS classes I'm TAing so it's sort of different.

Goodness, I'm having a lot of trouble making relevant comments lately!