Word: tad
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...Tad Warshall, math whiz, played the part, teaching everyone a math major numbers game called Nim and then demolishing FM associate ed Antoinette C. Nwandu one-on-one in a Nim match. “You lost as soon as you made the first move, actually,” he shouted to general but slightly uneasy laughter...
Andrew Warshall is a nerd, and proud of it. When comparison shopping for colleges in Cambridge four years ago, Tad, as he is commonly called, felt that MIT tried too hard to prove itself, with brochures desperately screaming, “It’s not true that everyone here is a nerd!” Warshall ruminates, “If you actually want to be a nerd, it’s not the place...
That’s how Tad ended up at Harvard. A math concentrator (“I’ve never tried anything else”) and “second-generation mathematician,” Tad prefaces explanations of his courseload with such weighty questions as, “You did take calculus, right?” Far from simply finding the area under the curve, Tad is taking Math 135: Differential Topology, Math 191: Mathematical Probability, and Math 212: Functions of a Real Variable this semester. Conveniently, all three meet in the same room: Science Center...
During his down time Tad is fond of playing bridge, general laziness and “The Simpsons.” He declares no music or literary interests, and jokingly declares his group of friends to be “an empty or non-empty...
...Whatever happened to good old-fashioned intuitive gaydar? “My mama always said that if it looks like a gay duck, walks like a gay duck, and talks like a gay duck, then it probably is one real gay duck. Thus, I think Gaydar would be a tad gratuitous,” commented Ryan Wilkes ’03. Other students appeared to agree with Wilkes. “If you want others to know you’re gay, an extra-small T-shirt from the Gap seems sufficient....a “gay homing device?...