IN PRINT: Everyone Loves Einstein. And Princeton is Haunted.

Calling all math nerds, Pi lovers and Einstein devotees! If you're staying on campus for spring break (so near and yet so painfully far), don't miss out on the second year of a recently birthed Princeton tradition: Pi Day.Mimi Omicienski of the Princeton Tour Company dreamed up this celebration of all things geeky last year, when she realized that March 14th coincides with Albert Einstein's birthday. Last year, Omicienski worked with the Princeton Public Library and Joy Chen from JOY Cards (on Chambers Street, close to Masala Grill, FYI. Check it out if you want a cute alternative to Paper Source) to create the first ever Pi Day. It included pie-eating contests, an Einstein look-alike competition, and an intense pi recitation showdown. The winner? Gareth Conway, son of our own superstar mathlete John Conway.But this year, the Pi Day people are stepping up their game. March 14th has been extended to an entire "Geek Freak Weekend," featuring Dinky and plane rides with Einstein (as in, Einstein re-enactors. Not his dead body. That would be morbid), presentations from our plasma physics lab, pi-themed sales, more pie eating, and a math competition with a $314.159 prize."Think Disney, and instead of Cinderella, you have Einstein," Omicienski said.Yeah. Get excited.By the way, Omicienski is just about the biggest fan of Princeton you'll ever meet. Or just the biggest fan of Princeton ever, period. No offense to Orange Key, but Omicienski's tours blow other Princeton tours out of the water. She eats breakfast with townie old-timers at Carousel at 6 a.m., just so she can get their stories about the days when Princetonians were still segregated/woman-less/fighting in Vietnam. She has a website devoted expressly to Princeton's black squirrels. She won the Nassoons' #1 Fan Contest earlier this fall.She also tells genuinely creepy stories about our campus being haunted, like how the Fitzrandolph family's ghosts visit their corpses, which are supposedly buried in the walls of an arch in Rocky ... I was skeptical, until she pointed out how many devoted alumni throng to Reunions every year. Did I really think that they wouldn't keep coming back to Old Nassau after they crossed to the "other side"?Hm. Good point.Even if you won't be around for the Pi festivities, you can still celebrate (read: procrastinate on studying for midterms. I mean, this is semi-academic anyway, right?) by contributing to Omicienski's online collection of Pi paraphernalia. Example:PI TRANSPOSED INTO MUSIC FORM. WHOA.More pi, ghosts, and Omicienski at the Princeton Echo.