In my three years at Caltech, I have learned one undeniable truth: winter terms are the hardest. If you aren’t grinding through core requirements, you’re battling the occasional rains and winds. If not the weather, then some burning bush (literal and metaphorical). The moral is simple — in winter, things just happen.
A constitutional crisis unfolded last week in Lloyd after residents of Purple and Kaos alleys announced their intention to secede and establish an independent state, the “Republic of Nugget.” The declaration came on March 31, when former President Isabella announced on behalf of the Purple and Kaos alleys that, “in the absence of our fearless leader” (current President Shan is off-campus this term), they had “elected to secede from Lloyd House in order to form our own independent state, the Republic of Nugget.”
