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Oh wonderful. I just finished my first year at Swarthmore and can assure you that you're in for a worthwhile experience, regardless of how you end up involved with college bowl. We do have a team that's been pretty consistently strong (given an all-undergrad student body of not quite 1500). This yea...

Please, Dr. Barnes. "Jedi Knight?" It was a good game, but nothing supernatural was involved. Down big, we knew we had to play fast and loose to have a shot at even making the game respectable. Those risky buzzes just ended up paying off. Like Sam, I'm just really glad TJ and us will be on...

And...I'll be at Swarthmore. Probably. I sent in my deposit.

Wait-listed to Princeton. (?!) This means that, in all likelihood, my decision is now between Williams, Dartmouth, and Swarthmore. Probably Williams / Swarthmore at this point.

Which is perhaps what my decision would have been anyway, barring one of those supergenerous financial aid offers.

It looks like the only school I'm waiting on at this point is Princeton. I'm into Swarthmore, Williams, Dartmouth, Carleton, and William & Mary. My last school, Pomona, didn't get one of my recs and didn't tell me about it until a couple weeks ago. At that point, I had already heard from some ot...

Someone commented on the Cavalier Open saying (essentially) that they would have rather seen the many close games in the top bracket decided by 20 straight academic questions rather than NAQTs comparatively trashy set. I'll avoid commenting on specific questions, but suffice it to say that when game...

It is told that once upon a time, a scholar in China was curious about the length of the Emperor's nose (doubtless a very important subject). Unfortunately, no commoner was permitted to see the Emperor, and the scholar would certainly not be allowed to measure his excellency's nose. To solve this pr...