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• It would appear that a wormhole has appeared on RealCTY. They say that Eliza has returned.

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Essays

• Untitled, by EB Saldana
• Honey, by Stephanie
• Some Thoughts on Working for CTY, For CTY Students, by Anonymous
• Of CTY, by Wendy
• CTY Perfection, by Priya Mehta

Check the Essays page to post what you think.

Beyond CTY

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External Links

• Five Geek Social Fallacies, by Michael Suileabhain-Wilson
• You Are How You Camped, by Timothy Noah
• My summers at nerd camp, by Meghan O'Rourke
• A Camp of Our Own, from Free-Floating Hostility (a blog)