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(This post was actually started November 21, 2007!)

So after a long epic battle with midterms and eventually exams, the fall semester finally ended December 17th! In this semester there were plenty of laughs, plenty of tears and plenty of fears… Instead of posting a year-end post like last year, I’ve decided to increase the number of posts by posting per semester. This way, I can even recall the most epic moments during the semester, haha…

So if you’re reading and know what this is about, and even have a few of your own, please leave a comment (or a track/ping-back)…because everyone loves those!

Here we goooooooooooooo!!!

Most Likely To Be Killed By A 42-Page Report:

Bobby Khan

Joey Magic Fingers and I wrote huge reports when we first started the labs, mainly because we thought we needed to have everything. Of course, on our 2nd report, the size was ballooning in size, and I joked (insert comic ref) about having a 42-page report. Bobby surely would have died if he saw that…

Most Likely To Kill students Who Wrote 42-page Reports:

Bobby Khan

…and he’d surely murder (in terms of marks and life) those who submitted a 42-page report.

Most Relaxed TA In A Tense Way:

Bobby Khan

Most In Need Of A Drink (Of Water) or Throat Lozenges:

Dhavid Aruliah

Every lecture he’d attempt clearing his throat (or something like that) at least 4 times. Epic win indeed. Understandable, since most of the time the Tent/Onion’s mic doesn’t work.

Best Quote (Professor):

Oh, so did you wake up one morning and say “Oh shit! I can sort the array!”??
- Ramiro Liscano

Best Quote (Professor) Runners up:

That’s just a pathetic strategy.
-Dhavide Aruliah

Best Quote (TA):

You know what?…just fuck it.
-Bobby Khan

“I’d Rather Scream Instead Of Talking Into the 3 Microphones in Front of Me”:

Ruth Milman

Every lecture she’d choose to talk very loudly or borderline scream instead of talking into the house microphones which are placed at the front podium. Note, that this is in UB2080, which is one of our largest lecture halls (able to house at least 168 humans?)… Well, the people who sit in the back aren’t paying attention anyway. Then again, neither did we, most of the time, and we were sitting in the 4th row.

Most Innovative (Really!):

Mikael Eklund

After the first midterm was fire-alarmed (which led to my demise), Prof. Eklund devised a plan (AND BACKUP PLAN) to split the 2nd midterm into multiple parts, by giving us subsequent questions every 20 minutes. This way, we could continue writing the midterm even if a fire-alarm was pulled; pure brilliance! Such an innovative professor, I am really glad to have had him as my prof for an essential course.

Most Likely to Make You Late For Your Bus:

Ramiro Liscano

Despite how helpful and informative he can be, he’ll most likely make you late for the bus because he often rambles on with his explanations. While explaining though, he sometimes goes on a LARGE tangent and might even be distracted by other people. For example, he was talking to our group and it should have taken around 5 minutes, but because people kept on interrupting him, it took half an hour. Damn, son.

I Went and Shaved My Definitive Moustache:

Ali Grami

I didn’t have him this year, but his class was right after our Differentials class…so I saw that he had shaved his crazy moustache. It made me shed a tear actually, because this was not the Ali Grami I knew.