Student life at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta — known familiarly as Georgia Tech — is not for the delicate of heart or the weak of mind. Tech is a serious school for serious students who take classes like applied combinatorics, deformable bodies, quantum information and quantum computing, and multivariable calculus. That last one, the school catalog says, covers "[l]inear approximation and Taylor's theorems, Lagrange multiples and constrained optimization, multiple integration and vector analysis including the theorems of Green, Gauss, and Stokes."
Is that even English?
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But it's also in this place that the big-hearted practical jokester George P. Burdell lives and flourishes. At GT, where the nerd quotient is admittedly and proudly high — and the academic pressures absurdly higher — it's important to have an alumnus like ol' George as a beacon.
George, you see, has made it through GT and then some — the man is a practical legend around GT.
Check that: George P. Burdell is, in fact, a literal legend at Georgia Tech. And that's where things get interesting.
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