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MDK -> RE: Vikes talk for Twins Fans (10/25/2019 12:22:41 PM)
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Loved the Martian Chronicles.
About 20 years ago, Cal Tech hosted the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Students from all different disciplines present the results of their creative efforts. The conference would shift from schools around the country who emphasized undergraduate scholarship. At Cal Tech, a sophomore undergrad student got to introduce that year's keynote speaker.
He said, At Oxford, they read Shakespeare. At Cal Tech, we read Bradbury.
60 % of incoming first year students score perfect on the math portion of either the ACT or the SAT.
A former electrochemist at the Univ. of Wyoming who was one of the smartest chemists I had ever met got his PhD and Cal Tech and told the the undergrads there were scary because they were so smart.
Cal Tech does have a football team but students there are famous for disrupting other football games.
Here is my one of my favorites.
The Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a prank at the 1961 Rose Bowl, an annual American college football bowl game. That year, the Washington Huskies were pitted against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. At halftime, the Huskies led 17–0, and their cheerleaders took the field to lead the spectators in the stands in a card stunt, a routine involving flip-cards depicting various images for the audience to raise. However, a number of students from the California Institute of Technology managed to alter the card stunt shown during the halftime break, by making the Washington fans inadvertently spell out CALTECH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yoLX4P4THs
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