Being around professors who have discovered so much in their field, it just occurred to me to wonder: how are people supposed to refer to theories named after themselves? How is Jim Gunn supposed to refer to the Gunn-Peterson effect?

Today, Princeton Men's Volleyball Club had our first home game, against Seton Hall University. Our team plays against other institutions around the area, mostly small colleges and university in the New Jersey area.

The last time I played competitive volleyball was over a year ago, and hardly touched a volleyball since then. I play as libero, rotating the position with Dave between sets. I managed to get some good passes in since none of the opposing players served me any floaters, the style of serve which I am utterly crap at receiving. Ironically, we scored quite a few points from dumping floaters on to their libero, who seemed as inept at dealing with them as I would have.

The game fluctuated back-and-forth, and a lot of our lost points were from silly mistakes, e.g. service errors. We had to go to 5 sets before we got the victory, and I felt that I had a lot more of my game to work on, especially keeping calm when dealing with floaters, and also my reading of the game.

Our next game is on Tuesday, which is pretty rushed.