See you in the fall, Northwestern!
Edit: (Dunno how to respond to comments… but to answer Maida- I got an offer way back in January, but just now accepted it. Very excited!)
So many wonderful, beautiful, impossible things happened in the past 24 hours. Let me just share one, for now: I am now an NSF Fellow.
(via yellowhypocrite)
What the light-headed fencer couldn’t quite make out.
Homophone game!!
Last night my friend taught me a word game! And like the nerds we are, we stayed up till 2 drinking and playing…
Here’s how it works:
- First you think of a homophone. Two words are “homophones” if they sound the same out loud but have different meanings. (This is slightly different than a “homonym” which both sounds AND is spelled the same). In this case you need three words that all sound the same but have different meanings.
- Now you write a sentence that somehow gives a clue as to these homophones- obviously you don’t use the homophone in the sentence.
Here’s an example (that my friend Leah made up, and I already posted earlier today):
I do not know if we can ride out the storm.
The answer is: Whether/Weather, “I do not know if…” is a hint for “whether” “ride out” is a hint for “weather” and “storm” is a hint for “weather.”
Here’s another:
What is mandatory for the baker who injured someone?
I’ll put the answer below the fold in case you want to think about it… (it’s rather tricky, and also due to Leah.)
