The 2008-2009 school year is now over, and yes, I have been lacking (and slacking) in updates during this year. Most noticeably absent were my awards (I should probably call them ACHIEVEMENTS since we’re all achievement whores at heart)!! No problem, since we can get it all in one giant post do it all at once, in separate posts. So let’s get at it with the Fall semester! Click MORE to look at the Fall awards!

Are You Conspiring With My Dentist?: Prof. Jing Ren

In our computer architecture class, our professor would frequently award us with candy for participating (ie. answering questions correctly, or asking a very damn good question). There was, of course, a catch…since we weren’t allowed to eat any of these little sugary bits until the last day of class, since these candies were bonus marks. A very good effort by the prof to get us to participate, though it may have been a bit…elementary school-level (BUT IT WAS DAMN EFFECTIVE)

Beauty Is In The Eye of the Beholder: Prof. Sharam Shahbazpanahi

Isn’t this beautiful?

A phrase commonly echoed throughout his lectures, it is something we have grown to love. Now we constantly question whether something is beautiful or not — more than often, it is.

Oh, You’re Not The Highest Mark Anymore: Prof. Yulei Yang

We had a midterm and had to go to him to get it marked and to GET our marks. One of our mates had over 100…but our prof was quick to point out that someone had beaten him, with an even higher mark.

Highest Expectations: TA Shruti

Since we’re engineers-in-training, our math skills should be pretty damn good, so it is sort of justified when she expected us to have all derivatives, integrals and transformations of trigonometric identities memorized. Except we don’t…sorry to disappoint and make you dumber by teaching us?

Most Ticketed: TA Fayez

Unfortunate fellow was getting tickets almost every week, coming from Toronto for our computer architecture labs…

The Insider (Part 1): TA Olaf

Gave us some tips to survive in Prof. Sharam’s class. Mercy, mercy.

Over-compensation?: Prof. Sood

We had around 30 people registered for our electromagnetics class, but had lectures in The Onion/Tent/UA Pavilion, which can easy seat over 80, has horrible acoustics without use of a mic, and renders the blackboards at the front F-UTTERLY F-USELESS. Now, of the 30-or-so registered, there were perhaps only a maximum of 10 students which attended lectures. The Registrar must have been over-compensating for class size.

Tell It Like It Is: Prof. Jing Ren

Um…no. That’s wrong.

Not that there’s anything wrong with being wrong. Stop looking at me like that, jerks.

Head Hunter: Prof. Jing Ren

The only way to get the previously-mentioned candy from point A (the prof) to point B (the student) is to throw it. And throw she did. At other people’s heads. Take that, SplitNova!

Drama King: Prof. Yulei Yang

He had a tendency to repeat certain sentences/words multiple times, very slowly, very dramatically. Very slowly…very dramatically. Very…slowly…very…dramatically…dramatically…dramatically…