thehowe_v7.1

I just found this online, but it's a little too big to put in the quotes section, so I thought I'd put it here. Enjoy:

One year there were too many applicants for the Math program. So the Dean of Engineering and the Dean of Mathematics got together and devised this method to determine who became mathematicians and who would become engineers.

They had all the male candidates line up on one side of the auditorium. They had the school cheerleading squad line up on the other side.

The two deans then announced that they would blow a whistle every minute. At the sound of the whistle, each male student was to cross half the distance of the auditorium between them and the cheerleading squad. Immediately half of the male students left the auditorium.

The Dean of Mathematics said "those boys will become Mathematicians since they know they will never get to the other side". The Dean of Engineering said, "and the remainder will become engineers, since they know they will get close enough".