Apropos of nothing.
We were on a family trip to Chicago the year our older was applying to colleges, and decided to do the official tour of the UChicago campus since we are already there - the only official tour we did (we are really not into playing these games with the admissions committees).
The tour was, as expected, entirely non-illuminating, but we enjoyed walking around campus on our own afterwards, since it is very interesting architecturally (as is the rest of Chicago, our favorite American city in that regard).
I mean, this is their mathematics department:
Pretty awesome, amiright?
On top of our love of architecture, both our boys are big-time math nerds, so of course we couldn’t resist walking in to breathe in the rarefied air of elite mathematics.
As luck would have it, one of the first doors we came across was this one:
Oh, gee, I wonder what kind of abstract beauty will we see on those coveted blackboards. So kind of them to let us peek…
Oh… This looks like… admissions calculus?
No wonder Prof. Abbot is so upset…