College Puzzle Challenge 2008: The Heist
- Date: November 8, 2008
- Start Time: 12:00 Noon, EST
- Length: 12 hours
- Theme: Auditing the estate of Professor Solvem to explore its mysterious financial state.
- Participating Universities: Boston College, Boston University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Columbia University, Cornell University, George Mason University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Howard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Texas A&M, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Texas, University of Toronto, University of Washington, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Grand Prize winner: Brown University (Team: The Sons of Tamarkin)
Read more about this topic: College Puzzle Challenge
Famous quotes containing the words college, puzzle and/or challenge:
“I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity that school stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word.... How marvelous it would have been to go to a women’s college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)
“—My good friend, quoth I—as sure as I am I—and you are you
—And who are you? said he.—Don’t puzzle me; said I.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“She might have been old once and now, miraculously, young again—but with the memory of that other life intact. She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there.”
—Paule Marshall (b. 1929)