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June 15, 2002
Had lunch with my math
Had lunch with my math friend Mark at Planet Thailand yesterday. Love that place, as it is cheap and tasty and healthy and fun and bad music is always playing. Mark is the uber-genius of my math group, arguing horrendously complex problems with Al, the other genius. The rest of us are trying to just survive the program, these two are redefining reality or something. I could swear I saw them generating a black hole under the table yesterday. I've looked at the equations they play with, and I start to get dizzy.
Regardless of what you might say about Teaching Fellows organization abilities, or their funding, or ability to kill us in the first two years, they are quite good with naming things. Each group of university students is classified as a 'cohort'. When they first told me I was in the math cohort, I pictured myself wearing a mongolian doppa, riding a horse across the Russian steppes, leading an attack on some fortress. Being a math cohort, we would be able to use sine, cosine, and tangent to precisely launch catapults, or something.
So our group is a cohort. Back to Planet Thailand, and my conversation with Mark. We are observing a group of about fifteen hipsters, and I suddenly ask Mark what a group of hipsters is called. You have a murder of crows, a pod of whales, a short bus of republicans, a cohort of teaching fellows. My immediate ideas were a comb of hipsters, or maybe a thrift of hipsters, but then I had an epiphany- an angst of hipsters. I'm quite proud of that.
Posted by G at June 15, 2002 12:52 PM