HCSSiM 2008 pictures
It was a summer of joyous obsesssions...
As though combining Mathematica, frisbee, and 17 weren't enough, we had a visit from Stephen Wolfram himself!
He gave a mid-afternoon talk (and showed a preview of a super-secret future product that caused much drooling and excitement), was mobbed for autographs and conversation, and ended up fielding so many questions for so long that we convinced him to stay for dinner.
Our customary predilections for yellow pigs and seventeens came to a head on YP Day. Look at how many people turned out for the annual alumns vs. students frisbee game:
Kelly gave his annual talk on the mathematical and social history of 17 to a full audience,
and we completely filled the ASH Lobby to sing carols.
We left our mark on the world.
(French immersion program vocabulary card, giant baseball in Boston, and blackboard at MIT)
Other people play SET. We played 5-attribute SET. Yes, that requires 3 full decks of SET cards... (Shown playing here, Megan Cutrofello, Oliver Saripalli, Margaret Meyerhofer, Aaron Graham-Horowitz.)
Other
people play frisbee. We tossed around Mathematica discs
on the way to Prime Time... all the time. (Kamil Witek, Jibo Wen, Seung Hyun
Lee, and Xiaoxiao Wu are the obsess-ees in this photo.) The Wolfram obsession
even reached soda bottles, arranged to display cellular automata rule 30.
There was rampant head-eating,
and other obsessions, such as PowerThirst, playing Birdman (not pictured here for your safety), and capture-the-flag.
This final photo shows just joy, no obsession.
