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by Jesse Gelles, John McLaren, and Nancy Taubenslag

Answer: KILLIAN COURT

In order for solvers to be able to fill their schedule, they must first determine what quality “valid” classes have that “invalid” classes do not. The hidden internal rule is that valid classes will contain one of the capitalized course words hidden across a word break. The sample classes each demonstrate this principle, while using invalid classes to eliminate other possible mechanics.

Course GHD — Rodent Husbandry and Meteorology
Class	Status
Avoiding Thunderstorms and Static Cling While Caring For Your Pikachu	INVALID
Micro Denticles and How They Destroy Your iPhone Chargers	VALID

Course FD — Flag Design and International Communications
Class	Status
A Penchant for Peaceful Pennant Panache	INVALID
Tariff Lags and Trade Delays: Is Global Economy Good for the Global Economy?	VALID

Course MLKJD — Oration and Dream Interpretation
Class	Status
Andrea Martin’s Amusing Musings About Broadway Muses	VALID
Freudian Slips: Where You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother	INVALID

Course TLAPD — Ocean Studies and Dialect Appropriation
Class	Status
Cymodocea nodosa and Other Sea Flora: The Marine Turf Wars	VALID
Pronunciations of Aluminium: A Divide and Debate Across the Pond	INVALID

Solvers use the identified rule at each of the stations during the mini-runaround to determine which class is valid, by finding a hidden capitalized word from the provided course name. Each class has a listed class number and time where it would fit in the schedule.

Course 1 — Civil and Environmental Design Studies
Class	Title	Schedule
1.012	Facade Significance: Why You Should Judge a Building by Its Exterior	T1
1.013	Imprisoned Within Neo-Brutalist Walls: How Elgin Lost His Marbles	M2
1.014	Gaudy Gaudi: Art Nouveau or Art No-View?	R11

Course 2 — Mechanical and Robot Engineering
Class	Title	Schedule
2.001	Asimov’s Laws: They’re Really More Like Guidelines Than Anything	T11
2.014	Rocko’s Modern Artificial Life: AI Basilisks and Why You’re Now Implicated	M2
2.015	Electro Botcheries: The Difference Between Buick Skylark and Brutal Skynet	R1

Course 5 — Atomic and Nuclear Sciences
Class	Title	Schedule
5.004	Yarn Theory: More Strings For Schrodinger’s Cat to Play With	W11
5.012	Lambda and Nu: Clear-cut Particle Identification Through Spectrometry	T11
5.019	Non-Proliferation Through Rare Neutral Particle Detection	F2

Course 5 — Atomic and Nuclear Sciences
Class	Title	Schedule
5.001	The Great Omicron Particle: Unlocking the Secret to Holographic Projections	W11
5.011	Stoichiometry: Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill	M11
5.013	Integrated Heterogeneous Kinetics and Reaction Engineering Design	R2

Course 9 — Cognitive Sciences and Neural Circuitry
Class	Title	Schedule
9.007	Aliens and Zombies: From Probing Brains to Eating Brains	T12
9.016	To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Axonal Rewiring and Cellular Regeneration	W2
9.018	Migraineur Allergies, Triggers, and Current Therapies	F12

Course 12 — Earth, Cosmos, and Inter-Dimensional Sciences
Class	Title	Schedule
12.002	Stephen Hawking’s Lesser Known “Long Answers to Tiny Questions”	W12
12.009	Parsec and Lightyear — the Theoretical Basis for Star Trek and Star Wars	M1
12.025	Studies in Diffuse Extragalactic Light and Annihilating Dark Matter	F1

Course 13 — Ocean Engineering and Marine Biology
Class	Title	Schedule
13.002	The Four Seahorse-men: Studying Biodiversity at the Seabed	M12
13.017	Hydrodynamic and Stability Considerations in Subsea Structural Design	F12
13.021	Low-fat Calamari: Neurons and Unmyelinated Axons, Squid as a Model System	R2

Course 16 — Rocket Science and Aeronautics
Class	Title	Schedule
16.005	Can You Hear Me Now? Satellites Technology For Interstellar Communication	T1
16.011	Buzz’s Stellar Moonrock: Eternity and Beyond	M12
16.024	Jet Propulsion, Low-Friction Surfaces, and Antigravity Technologies	R1

Course 19 — Roofs, Tunnels, and How to Hack
Class	Title	Schedule
19.002	The Great Dome: Cop Cars, R2D2, Fire trucks, and Catapults	W1
19.009	ADV Stealth Acknowledgements — the ADVENT of Vadding: A history	T2
19.021	It Holds Tradition Foregoing Profanity — Iterating Homages to Fit Perfectly	F11

Course 19 — Roofs, Tunnels, and How to Hack
Class	Title	Schedule
19.003	Jack of All Trades: Orange Tour Certification Class	T2
19.014	Velcro Of Silence: Binding Materials for the Covert Student	W12
19.020	Inventorying Hunt Texts For Posterity — It Has Two Fundamental Purposes	F11

Course 20 — Biological Engineering and Applied Mathematical Analysis
Class	Title	Schedule
20.009	The Neverending XOR-y: NIM-bly Winning Impartial Games	M1
20.017	When Life Gives You Lemma: A la Carte Theorem Add-ons, to Taste	R12
20.020	The Guarana Lysis Blight: Synthesis of Transgenic Agricultural Flora	F2

Course 21 — Humanities: Anthropology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Comparative Media, and the Kitchen Sink
Class	Title	Schedule
21.003	Descartes vs Hume: Dialectic Theories of Skepticism	R11
21.005	Exploring the Validity of Invented Languages: From Klingon to Elvish	T1
21.026	It’s the End of the World as We Know It: Cross-Cultural Armageddon Theories	W2

After picking out the right classes and filling the schedule correctly, solvers will notice that the numbers are all from 1 to 26. Ordering by Monday morning to Friday evening, an A=1, B=2, etc. translation of the course numbers (to the left of the period) spells PLEASE SUBMIT, while a translation of the subject codes (to the right of the period) spells the answer, KILLIAN COURT.