User:DesmondWeisenberg

    I took 5 CTY courses when I was younger and after rediscovering it, I took Mathematical Logic at LMU session 16.2, where I got to know CTY's traditions to the full extent and fell in love with them.
    I came to CTY at Princeton next year to study Mathematics of Competitive Behavior... I should probably tell you a bit about that while I'm here. I was in RA Peter's hall, a very tight-knit hall, which had a reputation of being that hall incapable of getting from point A to point B without singing as many random songs (the most common being Feliz Navidad and The Star Spangled Banner) along the way.  
    Also, on the first evening of class, we briefly learned about combinations/probability and the birthday problem - basically, given our class of 15 students, what were the odds that at least two of us had the same birthday. (Apparently it's roughly 25%.) Curious, I asked everyone to go around and share their birthday - interestingly enough, my roommate and I as well as another pair were born on the same day. After class, we pestered Peter to know his birthday, and he refused to tell us at first, so we determined that it must be his birthday every day - we sang happy birthday for him at every hall meeting every day despite him inexplicably insisting it wasn't his birthday. The nevermores (everyone in our hall was one) even sang happy birthday for him right after "Seasons of Love" in the talent show. So if you're at CTY ten years later and it's still his birthday, now you know how the joke started - erm, I mean, now you know how this phenomenon was discovered. (By the way, if you want to calculate his age, he was 23 at the beginning of the session and 42 at the end of the session, on Friday July 14, 2017.)