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On Saturday, October 23, Jamie Mazur ('00), Kelly Ward ('00), and Scott Susslin ('01) became the first Trinity College representatives to advance to the Northeast Finals of the ACM International Programming Contest. Their appetites whetted by the close victory over a week ago, they now prepare for the next round, to be held at Westfield State College this Saturday, the 6th of November.Articles: November 2, 1999 | ||
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Just One More Distribution RequirementSo here I am staring at this monumental bulletin of classes and wondering, "What am I going to take next semester?" It seems that there are so many choices and so little time. Having sold my soul to the Guided Studies Program, I've basically got the freshman year mapped out; this means that the precious few classes I get to choose, I should choose wisely. First and foremost on my mind are the ever-looming distribution requirements, especially the hideous Numerical and Symbolic Reasoning. I'm not sure if there's anyone in recorded history who is as bad at math as I am, so the whole math requirement thing is not a pleasant prospect. Full story... |
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Life In The Trinity GhettoI remember vaguely two years ago, when I was filling out an application to Trinity, one of the questions for the essay section asked, "How do you feet about being in the middle of a big city?" How the school tricked us all by calling Hartford a city! I had never visited Hartford before; coming from the suburb of New Jersey, I pictured the word "city" to mean something like New York "City". So young, so unwise, and so wrong I was!Trinity, if it had been honest with its prospective applicants and future students, should have asked, "How do you feel about being in the middle of a scary ghetto?" Full story... |
Features Goes Dirt Cheap: A Restraunt Review At Mather For The Chronically BrokeStepping through the doors of the Crossroads, the unmistakable smell ofŠ Well, we are not exactly sure what the smell is, but once we get passed Olga's cheerful smile, we will doubtlessly be enlightened. Braving the mayhem that defines this culinary forum, we get into line.For the purpose of this review, Jack and I bypass Fresh Inspirations (This is the salad bar, for those who are confused. We take no responsibility for the misleading labels) and the Firehouse Grill. I make Wellness & You my first stop. Surveying the mouth-watering display, tastefully laid out, I decide against actually testing the consistency of the dish advertised as "almond rice with beans." Full story... |
Der Uberkollum: Thomas Moore And PornographyDespite all complaints about the overall incapability of the Hartford news programs to relate even the most mundane stories, a few weeks ago they managed, although inadvertently, to send me into deep philosophical contemplation. I started to think about porn and the role it plays in my life. This was not the usual contemplation of the pornographical arts, but a ponderance of the deeper implications and the ethos of Larry Flynt, Hugh Hefner, and all of their minions and deciples. The actual news segment dealt with a community in central Connecticut that was attempting to pass an ordinance which would effectively ban all dealers of pornography within a 500 yard radius of residential neighborhoods in a shining example of Thomas Moore's ideology. Full story... |
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Concerning The ConstructionIt was a Tuesday morning. Nothing unusual - for me it happens to be the day I have four consecutive classes. Like most Tuesdays, I was tired; Monday nights do not seem conducive to sleep. This particular Monday, in fact, I had not slept at all; on top of regular commitments I spent the evening writing the paper which I had spent the whole weekend not writing. Now that you are wondering if I have a point at all, let me reassure you that the answer to that question is a resounding yes. My point: I was very, very tired. Full story... |
Have You Seen My Roommate?Last week I had a very interesting interview with someone who may or may not have been the president of our school, Dr. Evan S. Dobelle. As I've said, it could have been my chair. I'm still not sure. It was a very good interview, and if you haven't read it, I suggest you find a copy.Actually, if you're like most people on this campus, than I'm pretty sure that you haven't read it. This is because most weeks the only people who read the Tripod are the writers and our mothers (Hi, Mom). I'm sure that there are other people who would love to read this great paper. However, some great mind at the Tripod office decided that it would be best to hide the paper in some obscure corner of Mather Hall instead of putting it someplace where people would actually see it. Full story... |
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Posters, Personalites, And Missing RoomiesMy roommate moved out this week. He had only been at Trinity for two days out of the last two weeks, so I should have seen it coming, but I didn't. I thought that maybe he was just lying in a gutter somewhere with is throat cut, not that he was deciding to take a year off and maybe come back in the fall. I came home from the mall and he was packing up.Now this was unpleasant to me for many reasons. The first and foremost is that I liked him. We got along well. He was a great guy. We liked the same music, kept roughly the same hours. We worked together. All of us on the floor are going to miss him a lot. Second, he brought the TV. Now, on top of dealing with suddenly not having one of the few people I actually felt like I knew here, I am also dealing with the withdrawal symptoms of a sever Bond habit. Thirdly, he took his posters down. Full story... |
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