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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...
...Tad speaks lovingly of the “flights of fancy” scribbled across the blackboards of 310, and shuns any suggestions that math is a waste of time and chalk. “Why is anyone doing anything instead of going to Africa and feeding the poor?” he demands while gesticulating wildly. “Someone needs to do math. You need to do math to do all the other subjects people say are useful...
Currently applying to math grad schools, Tad contemplates how “it might be pleasant to be a mathematician, to think deep thoughts.” In the meantime, he stands by his nerd identity. “You take a word that people use against you...[and then] they have to invent a new word.” And what might that word be? “’Dork’ has been experiencing a cross-over,” he replies with an enigmatic smile...
...tackled touchy subjects with phenomenal aplomb. In his tight Hebrew T-shirts and edgy glasses, he’s the picture of an intellectual, hip writer and he lives up to the look, proving that boys are capable of more than just Gossip Guy. A little bit cynical, a tad sarcastic and tons of fun, Amit is determined to make FM a better place—and no doubt he will...