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It’s a question whispered in the basement of the Cabot Science Library, by a select few students, usually only among the best of friends. How did it go? Did you make the sigma...
Most undergraduates go about their entire careers here without thinking much about the sigma. It’s one of those things—like the Porc or the Pudding—that affects only the elite among us. It’s a different kind of elite, however, who are concerned with the sigma...
...letter sigma is the mathematical symbol for the underlying population standard deviation, which marks off important divisions of the Gaussian distribution. That distribution is better know as the bell shaped curve, and it has been used to rank you against your peers since you first learned to bubble in letters in fourth grade. Its single broad hump and leisurely asymptotic decline account for the gifted, the dull and the discontented masses in between...
...Harvard, but find their way here anyway—like Ed Meinert “’02” and Philip Shaw “’03”, both of whom recently posed as undergrads, joined campus organizations, and tried to rush the Sigma Chi fraternity. These less-ambitious versions of Suzanne Pomeys may have not been Harvard men in name, but they were in spirit, proving that even a rejection letter doesn’t always dampen the Darwinian fire...
...fall of 1999, Edward F. Meinert registered as an Extension School student and joined Sigma Chi and the Harvard International Relations Council...