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Archive for February, 2007

Olin is Different

From: {one of our mailing lists} on behalf of {an Olin Student}
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:22 PM
To: {one of our mailing lists}
Subject: [Carpediem] Lose a 20?
I found a 20 dollar bill in the 3E hallway that fell sometime between 1 and 1:20 PM. It’s on my desk ({room number}) if it’s yours.
-{an Olin Student}-
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Carpediem […]

About Me

Having set up two more Wordpress blogs since this one, I have discovered a bunch of stuff I did wrong with this one. I think I’m going to tidy it up and fix the 404 errors and lack of search and archive issues since I don’t want to start my packets due at midnight yet, […]

Units of Currency

Today at lunch we were discussing how so many other countries’ units of currency are named the “Adjectival-Form-of-Country-Name Dollar”. This is sort of lame, because American Dollars came first, and it seems confusing to have so many different kinds of dollars. For instance, if I offered to trade you twenty dollars for your ten dollars, […]

Owned by work.

I am really owned by work this week, but I would like to share with you a startling trend. Let us examine the (serious enough to mean missing classes) un-wellness count at Olin among the freshman class.

Concussions: 2
Emergency Appendectomies: 1
Mono: 1
Head Staples: 1
Stomach Flu: 3
Broken Feet: 1
Fever: 1+
Laryngitis: 1
Fatigue: 1

note: not all items represent unique […]