Thursday Update

So we are well into frosh week now. The highlight of Tuesday's math faculty activities was the tie ceremony where we got our Pink Ties, as well as our frosh kits. The frosh kits were filled with lots of cool things like cups and key chain flashlights, but the best thing of all had to be the Pink Tie.

Legend has it that one of the Profs who worked here when the faculty was newly opened would always where crazy ties to work. The favourite tie of the staff and students was the proffessor's Pink Tie. When the Prof retired, a giant pinnk tie was found on the side of the math building. Ever since, the faculty has adopted the pink tie as it's mascot/symbol. The origional pink tie was apparently stolen by someone and made it's way around other universities. When it became apparent that the tie was not coming back, the faculty got a new pink tie. That tie however was destroyed with paintballs by some egineering students. That was when the tie guard was established to guard the new pink tie during frosh week and since than nothing has happened to it.

Just a legend of course. The tie guard does more than just guard the tie. They also no where every group from every faculty is at any time during orientation week so that they can point first years in the right direction in case they get lost. Probably because the giant pink tie is easy to spot from nearly everywhere on campus. However, the main duty is to guard the tie.

Yesterday we went on a tour of the campus. It was pretty much useless because I will never remember those places anyways. After the tour we went and played games against other math teams. There were games like EarthBall and Soccer Frisby (playing soccer and frisby at the same time with two frisbies and two soccer balls). My team was undefeated in the activities but since we were also scored on enthousiasm and such, we did not win. The prize wasn't so good since it was just that you were allowed to stay overnight at the Tie Guard, and earn you're tie guard wings, supposedly an honor within the math faculty. In the evening we went to a mixer with the faculties of Math and Art. There were lots of things to do like a movie and board games center and a crazy record breakers activities for things like stacking golf balls. I met an engineer called RA in the games corner and watched part of a James Bond Movie.

Today I got to sleep in because this morning was the International Orientation. In the afternoon I will be writing the ELPE which you have to pass in order to continue in you're program.