29th National Mathematics Summer School, January 1997
NeMeSiS 1997
Sunday, 5th January to Saturday, 18th January
ANU, Canberra
This was, admittedly, my least favourite mathscamp. Rules, curfews and Margaret - it was almost too much to bear! However, I still had a great time and met a lot of new eccentric friends!
Memories
- On our day off, we went to Belconnen where we enjoyed playing infinity games of air hockey. (The machine somehow stuffed up and we didn't have to pay!)
- We enjoyed using the love algorithm on everyone at NeMeSiS to determine who had 99% chance of having sex.
- James and Kim had many an argument concerning God and religion.
- The maths relay was so cool! One half of the team had the across clues to a mathematical crossword, and the other half had the down clues, and they only communicate one digit at a time.
- One night, around eight of us stayed up in someone's room, blatantly breaking thousands of rules in one foul swoop. The next day, during a tute, Margaret arrived to pull me away and interrogate me about the previous night's activities. At first, I denied everything, but soon I was reduced to a snivelling wimp and gave her all the names she wanted. We never found out how they caught us, and why Trupti managed to escape all prosecution! The rest of us were severely chastised (they even threatened to send us home at one point!) but the final punishment to deprive us of a final night, and this was eventually lifted anyway.
- On the very last night, Leigh, Norm and I were in Norm's room. It was a quiet moment; Norm was peacefully having a rest from packing, when suddenly Leigh interrupted loudly with a shocking question! Norm and I could not believe our ears...
- To pass the time, we wrote a humungous choose-your-own-letter to Step! Then, at the last minute, we couldn't get it printed, and we didn't have a disk to save it on... However, eventually the letter prevailed.
- As our bus drove away to the airport, we scribbled down on a piece of paper, "THERE IS A GOD" and threw it out the window for Kim to retrieve! However, it was Nick who picked it up and I don't know what happened to it after that...
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