Carpe Carpum: Sieze the Fish!

[l33tminion]

Today was advisers day, so I spent the morning and early afternoon doing group activities with my advising family (group of three advisers (to cover math, science, and AHS (arts, humanities, and social science)) and their advisees). My personal adviser will be Rebecca when she comes to Olin in January, in the meantime, my adviser is Rob, the "Wizard of AHS." In the afternoon I met individually with my advisers to discuss course registration.

This evening, there will be a "fireside chat," where students meet with upper administration.

And I'm still amazed by Olin food! Lamb tangine was one of the dinner options tonight, and it was super-tasty. *sighs with happiness*

I'm beginning to learn some people's names (still working hard at that, though). I'm really enjoying spending time with my Olin classmates.

Oh, and I got my ID card today. The cards are very useful (combining ID, our meal plan, dining dollars, and a proximity key (you hold it near the reader to unlock a door)), but, unfortunately, mine does not seem to work properly. I'll have to get it checked tomorrow. *sigh*

Comments

[kihou.livejournal.com]

It should be "Carpe Carpam", at least according to Erasmus.

Xavus

[l33tminion]

It's a joke. Not proper Latin. A joke!
*shakes head*
Not that I'm being defensive...

[kihou.livejournal.com]

That's no excuse! A joke without proper Latin is like an orange juice without sunshine!

(Excusatio non est! Jocatio sine lingu&257; Latin&257; est parilis succ&333; orangis sine apricitate!)

[socraticmachine.livejournal.com]

My fairly extensive Latin dictionary lists carp as either hippurus or cyprinus, both masculine, 2nd declension. Also, you might Latinize Greek karpos into carpus, of which the accusative would be carpum.

[l33tminion]

*looks up*
Whoops! If its the last case, then we were actually right, but I put "-em" instead of "-um".
*corrects typo*
And it was meant as a jest, not actual Latin...

[kihou.livejournal.com]

My dictionary has a word CARPA, CARPAE f meaning carp that seems to have been used by Erasmus, for what it's worth. Not classical, though.

[socraticmachine.livejournal.com]

Which dictionary did you use? I used the one on Perseus.

[kihou.livejournal.com]

I used William Whitaker's, http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm (http://users.erols.com/whitaker/words.htm), though I got it somewhere else.