1st entry from 2nd year of PROMYS
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sniffnoyGyah! Droppage!
No computer access Sunday or yesterday due to passwordforgettage so the result is frommemorydropping and not everything I might have wanted to write will get written. Oh well.
And yes, this LJ will *not* assume you read Fergie's, and so *will* include redundancies with it.
First of all, the cast.
All names will be in bold because I feel like it.
58 first years, including:
Caroline (thus far insignificant), Chang, who I have managed to mostly avoid, Brian Lee, who I insist on calling Moose after I saw *him* wearing a shirt with a moose on it (he was in my Geology class), but who I have also managed to mostly avoid, Josh Feng, Xin Chen, my roommate, who doesn't speak English very well, Avi, who has actually been helpful in lecture so far if anything, Funto, Mung's roommate, who speaks ridiculously quietly during lecture, Loud Girl, I'm sure you can guess where that name comes from, and Bob 2, who is not really much like Bob, but the name's sort of stuck now.
21 second years, including:
Me (duh), Anton, Dan Rubin, just as stubborn as ever, Eric Frackleton, Xiao, Rebecca, Fergie, with even dirtier jokes than before - and a female counselor... Tom, Chris, Steve, Billy (yes, he's back...), Matt, and Mung.
3 JCs: Li-Mei, Connie, and Jon Chu (whose initials, coincidentally, are "JC").
15 counselors, including:
Lorelei, Liz Marcil, Dina (but not Yakov), Sherry, Fergie's counselor... Evan, male head counselor, Dustin, all of whose counselees (?) are named "Dan"[0], Justin, my counselor, who wants me to do the Number Theory psets, Etienne, Avi's counselor, and Josh Zelinsky.
OK, so I forgot to bold a few names. I'll stop with that now.
Several people *not* from PROMYS but here anyway - ODan and Teja! They're in the Honors program. Also, while Cameron is not a counselor this year, he is one of the research mentors (?).
We played Illuminati Sunday. Yes, Illuminati on a Sunday. Well, it was the first day, we didn't have any work[3]... we tested a new Illuminati, the Knights Templar - 8/8 and 8, needs 35 resistance, can attack to control dead groups. Also we decided to test a rule that Cthulhu gets a permanent +1 income bonus every time it destroys a group (because otherwise it's the only group such that going for its special goal doesn't help it achieve its normal goal). I was Knights Templar, Josh was Cthulhu, Chris was Bavaria, and Steve (later Mung took over) was the Network. Final power structures will be posted later.
Avi was actually helpful in lecture today. Glenn was asking for properties of Z, and while other people were giving really bizarre things, Avi gave commutativity, associativity, and distributivity[4].
Additive inverses was actually the first one given, which caused a problem, as 0 had not been defined yet. Glenn asked how we can define 0, which led to some pretty strange answers, the worst of which as to be, "0 is the average of all the numbers in Z." Yes, really.
Glenn: You can just imagine these people, wandering around in the forest, and all they know how to do is count.
The cafeteria is now the actual downstairs cafeteria, which is neat. Except I get the distinct feeling it's too small - it was fine Sunday and Monday, but with the arrival of more summer programs, it was absolutely flooded today.
Really neat fireworks Sunday. They had these things doing all different shapes. Smiley faces, for instance.
M... what else, what else...
After the Illuminati game on Sunday, I decided I had better *not* carry Illuminati and Crimelords with me, so as to *prevent* spontaneous games of them. :P
Yes, I am carrying the ream of paper with me everywhere. No, it's not the same ream.
I can't seem to find my razor. I hope I just left it in Lexington and it's not totally lost... I had to borrow Mung's. I must say until now I had no idea just how good at keeping your head warm hair actually is. Of course right now that's not a good thing.
Fergie told a bunch of dirty jokes to his counselor and got lots of extra work in return.
The hole in the wall is repaired. Mostly.
As noted at the top, I'm sure there is much more to say, but as I've forgotten it (for now), I'll stop now. We've already had several quotes that "have to go on the T-shirt", but honestly, the only quote I remember is Glenn's one above.
So, that's it, I suppose, then.
(And I need to get back to work. Now that I finally know how to do those geometry problems... man, are determinants magical or what?)
-Sniffnoy
...oh yeah, and today, on the floor in lecture, I found a big d6 marked with "Ja" on 2 sides, "Nein" on 2 sides, and what Chris says is the German word for "Maybe" (I forget the actual word) on the other 2. Maybe it's Mung's.
[0]Originally it was 4 Dans and Chris, but Chris got traded to Lorelei just so Dustin would have all 5.
[3]Except for me, because I have Justin.
[4]Or as I pronounce it, "distributitivity."
--
"I hate alternate timelines. They make for messy bookkeeping."
-Squishydodo, Sluggy Freelance
No computer access Sunday or yesterday due to passwordforgettage so the result is frommemorydropping and not everything I might have wanted to write will get written. Oh well.
And yes, this LJ will *not* assume you read Fergie's, and so *will* include redundancies with it.
First of all, the cast.
All names will be in bold because I feel like it.
58 first years, including:
Caroline (thus far insignificant), Chang, who I have managed to mostly avoid, Brian Lee, who I insist on calling Moose after I saw *him* wearing a shirt with a moose on it (he was in my Geology class), but who I have also managed to mostly avoid, Josh Feng, Xin Chen, my roommate, who doesn't speak English very well, Avi, who has actually been helpful in lecture so far if anything, Funto, Mung's roommate, who speaks ridiculously quietly during lecture, Loud Girl, I'm sure you can guess where that name comes from, and Bob 2, who is not really much like Bob, but the name's sort of stuck now.
21 second years, including:
Me (duh), Anton, Dan Rubin, just as stubborn as ever, Eric Frackleton, Xiao, Rebecca, Fergie, with even dirtier jokes than before - and a female counselor... Tom, Chris, Steve, Billy (yes, he's back...), Matt, and Mung.
3 JCs: Li-Mei, Connie, and Jon Chu (whose initials, coincidentally, are "JC").
15 counselors, including:
Lorelei, Liz Marcil, Dina (but not Yakov), Sherry, Fergie's counselor... Evan, male head counselor, Dustin, all of whose counselees (?) are named "Dan"[0], Justin, my counselor, who wants me to do the Number Theory psets, Etienne, Avi's counselor, and Josh Zelinsky.
OK, so I forgot to bold a few names. I'll stop with that now.
Several people *not* from PROMYS but here anyway - ODan and Teja! They're in the Honors program. Also, while Cameron is not a counselor this year, he is one of the research mentors (?).
We played Illuminati Sunday. Yes, Illuminati on a Sunday. Well, it was the first day, we didn't have any work[3]... we tested a new Illuminati, the Knights Templar - 8/8 and 8, needs 35 resistance, can attack to control dead groups. Also we decided to test a rule that Cthulhu gets a permanent +1 income bonus every time it destroys a group (because otherwise it's the only group such that going for its special goal doesn't help it achieve its normal goal). I was Knights Templar, Josh was Cthulhu, Chris was Bavaria, and Steve (later Mung took over) was the Network. Final power structures will be posted later.
Avi was actually helpful in lecture today. Glenn was asking for properties of Z, and while other people were giving really bizarre things, Avi gave commutativity, associativity, and distributivity[4].
Additive inverses was actually the first one given, which caused a problem, as 0 had not been defined yet. Glenn asked how we can define 0, which led to some pretty strange answers, the worst of which as to be, "0 is the average of all the numbers in Z." Yes, really.
Glenn: You can just imagine these people, wandering around in the forest, and all they know how to do is count.
The cafeteria is now the actual downstairs cafeteria, which is neat. Except I get the distinct feeling it's too small - it was fine Sunday and Monday, but with the arrival of more summer programs, it was absolutely flooded today.
Really neat fireworks Sunday. They had these things doing all different shapes. Smiley faces, for instance.
M... what else, what else...
After the Illuminati game on Sunday, I decided I had better *not* carry Illuminati and Crimelords with me, so as to *prevent* spontaneous games of them. :P
Yes, I am carrying the ream of paper with me everywhere. No, it's not the same ream.
I can't seem to find my razor. I hope I just left it in Lexington and it's not totally lost... I had to borrow Mung's. I must say until now I had no idea just how good at keeping your head warm hair actually is. Of course right now that's not a good thing.
Fergie told a bunch of dirty jokes to his counselor and got lots of extra work in return.
The hole in the wall is repaired. Mostly.
As noted at the top, I'm sure there is much more to say, but as I've forgotten it (for now), I'll stop now. We've already had several quotes that "have to go on the T-shirt", but honestly, the only quote I remember is Glenn's one above.
So, that's it, I suppose, then.
(And I need to get back to work. Now that I finally know how to do those geometry problems... man, are determinants magical or what?)
-Sniffnoy
...oh yeah, and today, on the floor in lecture, I found a big d6 marked with "Ja" on 2 sides, "Nein" on 2 sides, and what Chris says is the German word for "Maybe" (I forget the actual word) on the other 2. Maybe it's Mung's.
[0]Originally it was 4 Dans and Chris, but Chris got traded to Lorelei just so Dustin would have all 5.
[3]Except for me, because I have Justin.
[4]Or as I pronounce it, "distributitivity."
--
"I hate alternate timelines. They make for messy bookkeeping."
-Squishydodo, Sluggy Freelance
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Date: 2004-07-06 08:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-06 11:01 pm (UTC)How'd Templar work out?
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Date: 2004-07-07 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-07 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-07 08:06 am (UTC)Last nite at dinner:
Me: I hate how when Harry isn't around there is no one to annoy when I get bored.
Mom: Send him an annoying e-mail. He checks his e-mail daily.
I would sen you an annoying e-mail, except that I'm not sure what e-mail address you check daily. Maybe I'll just send annoying e-mails to all of ur email addresses. She also suggested sending you annoying ims, but i said that u could just block me.
-Elana
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Date: 2004-07-07 05:58 pm (UTC)Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn...
Date: 2004-07-08 03:18 pm (UTC)Re: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn...
Date: 2004-07-08 03:40 pm (UTC)Maybe that's where Something Positive got it...
Something Positive is a webcomic, and there was one episode where they made some film or play about a character named Cthulhu.
Re: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn...
Date: 2004-07-08 03:54 pm (UTC)Exactly what Cthulhu is supposed to be... is hard to explain.
Howard Phillips (sp?) Lovecraft is a famous writer of horror stories. Pick up a collection of his; they're really scary (well, not some of the early stuff, but in general). And you'll find out what little is known about Cthulhu. :P
Re: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn...
Date: 2004-07-17 11:52 am (UTC)