A great novel, and an even better Cornell-themed game.This morning, the Undergraduate Student Elections began, and, with
online voting continuing until Thursday morning, you probably want to spend every waking minute contemplating what candidate will serve you best — especially considering that this is the first time that the student body at large has been privileged enough
to directly elect the S.A. President and Vice President. The best candidate will be humbly intelligent, modestly eloquent, and — most important of all — wildly popular. Just to make sure your vote “counts,” why
not rank the candidates based on how popular they are on Facebook? The problem that this wily blogger
par excellence encountered was that almost all of the candidates were wise enough to protect their profiles, so I couldn’t access the total number of friends they had in the Cornell network. Luckily, you can still see how many
mutual friends you have in common, so the game is simple:
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