Extremely Accurate and Serious Horoscopes
Libra (Sept. 23 – Oct. 22): Be careful to tell the truth in the upcoming weeks, because your lies will come back to haunt you.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21): Mimic a trait you admire in others.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21): Be cautious of taking out your frustration on your friends. Remember they have your best interests at heart.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19): Go into Boston. It will be exceptionally easy this month. You will be able to enjoy the city in a new way.
Meet the Oliner: Ian Hill
Class of 2017
From Northfield, New Hampshire
- Founded his own company, “Ian’s Wicked Good Donuts,” and ended up meeting lots of donut-loving politicians.
- He invented a realistic country in middle school with his friends. They had currency!
- Part Scottish, Portuguese, and Australian. Can you see it in his face?
Updates from the Illustrious SERV Board
Happy October from the SERV board! First, some good news – thanks to your votes, we have elected our two new general members from the first year class: Maddy Fort and Shrinidhi Thirumalai! We are super excited to have them join our team.
Now that the semester is well underway, we are looking for larger impact service projects that we can do over the course of the next few months. As always, if you have any ideas, let us know and we’ll see what we can figure out!
Here’s what we’ve been up to and what’s on the horizon as we enter the fall season:
A Puzzle by Midnight Math
Monge’s Theorem, stated informally, says that regardless of the size or location of the three circles depicted above, the points A, B, and C will form a straight line. Prove it.
Send your solutions to this problem (with proofs) to midnight.math@outlook.com. If you are correct, you will be given the highest of accolades: your name mentioned here, next issue.
Things Not-So-Well Known
On September 20th, Frankly Speaking posed to the student body of Olin the question: “What is ‘not-so-well-known’ that you think people should know more of? Can you tell us about it? Why is it important?” We received the following three fairly different responses:
Carpe & Helpme: A Survey
There are at least 258 public mailing lists serviced by Olin’s Mailman system. Included in this vast number of lists for a student body of under 400 is everything from classes to clubs, politics to Pokémon. Yet, a huge portion of the students’ inboxes are taken by just two mailing lists: carpediem and helpme. Given these lists’ powerful place in our daily lives, a survey was sent out in June to subscribers of these lists in an attempt to define public opinion and guidelines about them, and our email system in general.
The quantitative portion of the survey, where respondants rated their agreement with statements on a scale of 1 to 10, seemed to show that users were dissatisfied with the existing use of carpediem and helpme. Although they sometimes felt like they could not contribute to the lists, almost all users felt invested in the lists’ success. The sheer number of emails was percieved to be too much across the board. Despite these feelings and apparent mood of annoyance, most respondents thought that emails should be sent to the lists that currently receive them.
not xkcd: Confrontation of Henrietta and Hyde
Shibboleth
I have watched human facsimiles
wither and fade with the passing of the hours Seen glittering neon how-do-you-do’s fade like news past its years and yellow like that great amorphous mist
Watched myself, the perpetual vinyl
turning, turning, turning to a stop
With all the click and clacks and scratches and screams of an honest and proper player
Felt the gurgling-churning of the yet-to-be and watched the horizon before itself floating over and past the glitzy Hasidics.
Known the weniger-mensch in its rise
and grasped the undertow as it did the same Contemplating freeform in a spiral of time Floating under and over and through, though never really breaking, and always truly bound
Meet the Oliner: Alison Berkowitz
Little known facts about Alison:
- She is currently coaching her high school field hockey team.
- She loves salmon.
- She was the Circulation Manager of her high school newspaper.
Meet the Oliner is a new monthly column written by Jessica Diller. If you are interested in being interviewed for the column, contact Jessica or any of the Frankly Speaking editors.