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1. Collegium Carolinum

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   The Curriculum of Resignation
   The pedagogical methods employed at the Collegium Carolinum remain a subject of intense, though largely fruitless, academic debate. Students (known internally as Alumni Futilitatis) were required to spend significant periods in silent contemplation within specialized, acoustically neutral chambers known as 'Acoustic Purgatories'.
   A central component of the final examination involved the 'Assignment of Proximal Indifference.' Students were presented with two identical documents: one containi…