Several people have emailed and posted questions about the Trove Armchair Treasure Hunt, and since I’m not going to give any one person the advantage, I’ll share a few hints here.

When I was a junior in college, I thought that I should take a statistics course. Never mind that I absolutely sucked at math in high school (I’m generalizing here, but sucking at math is often a pre-req for becoming an English major). I figured that I had matured out of my math issues and was ready to master a class that required me to do numbers. Why did no one try to talk me out of this?

That same semester, I was an editor on the college newspaper which meant staying up late—often all night—on Thursdays to prepare The Acorn for its Friday printing.…

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