ScavHunt211

VoidEngineer writes "Well, it's that time of the year again... the World's Largest Scavenger Hunt has begun again. (This is the same annual Scavenger Hunt where the students built the breeder reactor, for item #240, back in 1999...) Anyhow, you can find the list here. This year, the competition is between 9 teams and there are 307 items. Nerdy items include, but are not limited to: #2 From the fetid swamps of Lotan to the teeming forests of Jojojop, Endor is an ancient, mysterious, beautiful land, deserving to be rendered as a full-color map fit for National Geographic, circa TA 3019; [51 points] #46 Mobius stripper. Must be non-orientable. Must not emphasize the one-dimensionality of the stripper's personality. [28 points]. #98 A piece of the Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA verification [155 points] #101 A hologram of an entire team member. [50 points] #136 Explain string theory using only sock puppets. The Judge must understand. [19 points]"

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Re:MIT still kicks uchicago's stupid elitist ass.

[Remik]

That's the major difference between most people that go to MIT and those that choose U of C: At U of C, we actually have creativity, and rather than choosing items that are 100% definately realizable in one and only one way, we allow for each team to interpret the list in their own way. It's like 10 different groups of actors performing a Shakespeare play, you're never going to get the same performance out of any 2, but each one will be spectacular in it's own ways.

Judging a contest where every team brought the exact same items must get extrememly boring.

-R