The Pi is a Lie

Today in the Math Faculty it is "Pi Day" - well, actually, tomorrow is technically Pi Day (Mar 14, ie, 03/14), but as that's a Saturday, today is the customary Pi Day event - pseudo-Pi Day, if you will. Just what is Pi Day? It is a day when MathSoc hands out free slices of pie, hence Pi Day. (Yes, yes, different kinds of pie, but the edible kind is so much tastier.) This fine tradition actually started back when I was still an undergrad and, obviously, it is still continuing. The story I recall about its inception was that some tech company (I forget which, but there probably aren't too many candidates) gave basically gave MathSoc some money and said "Here, have an event!" And so, Pi Day was born.

Granted, that may have just been hearsay, even back then, but regardless, pie is good, especially free pie (even if it is pseudo-pi). Today's line was long, but it moved fairly quickly and there was plenty of pie for all, and I scored myself a slice of rhubarb pie. Yum! In fact, I had nearly forgotten that it would probably be Pi Day today, but just happened to see a sign on my way back from the weekly TA marking meeting.

Freak Out,
-TFitC