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Walter looks like a kid about to play one of his favorite games today. He's smiling and sipping something cold from a paper cup that has a long-handled plastic spoon sticking out of it.

There are kits set out for the students' use today. Each kit contains a strip of surgical tape, a microchip in a plastic vial, two cell phone-sized boxes that bear strange resemblances to compasses, a pair of walkie talkies, and a handout on how to triangulate.

"Since I am discouraged from actively inserting anything subdermally in students, the surgical tape will have to do," Walter announces, apropos of nothing once the students have settled themselves. He sounds a tad disgruntled, but a sip from his cup seems to help his mood.

"Today we'll be working with hands on applications of geometry, but I have been reminded that this is summer camp, so I am endeavoring to make it more jocular." Clearly Walter thinks that most things can be made jocular with the right mindset, but not everyone has his imagination.

"Today we will be playing a version of hide and seek. Break down into groups of three. Since we have 14 students, I will be in one of the groups." He nearly clapped his hands together at the prospect.

"One student will be the hider. That lucky person will tape one of the chips to the back of his or her neck and hide anywhere on the island. We'll give you..." he paused and thought about it. "A ten minute head start. You can agree among your groups whether the hider should choose a place and stay in it or whether he or she can lead you on a merry chase.

"Next week I will have a prize for all students who found their hider within three hours. Now get going!"*

[ooc: So sorry! No excuses but confusing life. ~~Two minutes for OCD please.~~ *He'll forget the prizes. Sorry.]

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Peter raised an eyebrow, curious. "What were you imagining it was?" he asked, because he couldn't think of anything awful. Then again, Walter had been talking about the upside to LSD...

With the paper cup and spoon in it, Scully has been thinking something alcoholic with Kool-Aid. Which really wasn't fair to Dr. Bishop; she looked sheepish. "Something with alcohol. More my associations with this kind of experiment than anything he said, really." She was rubbing at the back of her neck now, and looking embarrassed.

"If Walter ever starts drinking during class, I'll make sure everyone knows it. Or possibly send him home and teach the class myself," Peter assured her. "But I don't blame you. His methods are a bit... 'damn the protocols'."

Scully had to crack a grin at that. "Which is great for learning, but had to be terrifying for his co-workers wherever he was working before this," she said, bemused.

"Toothpaste research," Peter said, still believing that complete falsehood. "He also did some work at Harvard." That was more impressive than the toothpaste research, at least.

Scully had a sudden image of Dr. Bishop declaiming, "We will fill the tubes from the SIDE, I say. THE SIDE! JUST TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS!" and failed to choke back a giggle. "Harvard in 1995?" she checked, then frowned, disappointed. "Although, I can't even be sure I could find anything he contributed to now, could I? If the timelines are different..." There went her plan to Google the teacher to read his work.

"Before that," Peter said. "By about four years or so." For reasons he'd only answer if asked. "And there's always a possibility a thesis or two made its way onto Google Books or something."

He'd made that discovery this weekend.

"I'm going to have to look for those," Scully said. "Walter Bishop, Harvard, early 90's." Which made her wonder if her thesis was available through JSL or another database. "It's slightly intimidating, how prevalent the internet has become. It was nowhere near this widespread eleven years ago. Or WiFi. And nothing stays lost."

"It's scary, but it's also impressive. While the Big Brother capabilities are definitely there, it's also like handing the keys to a huge chunk of the sum of human knowledge to everyone," Peter said. "And that's a good thing, in my book."

Scully considered that, then couldn't help a small grin. Mulder would've totally been on board with using the Internet that way for all of the things they'd discovered, that had gotten buried by conspiracies and bureaucracies. "Yeah, it is. You can't censor or rewrite everyone's memory that way."

"At least until they come up with mind control via YouTube," Peter joked.

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