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During Math 49 today, I learned that Deb Bergstrand used to be a rugby player. It's always a little weird to hear things like that from your professors... as the combinatorist/Wagner buff, she hardly seems the type. At the least I have a hard time imagining her involved in the carousing that's a part of Swat rugby. Probably things were different where she went to college. Maybe my memory is wrong, but I think I recall Bergstrand talking about teaching at Williams before coming to Swat and teaching someone who's now at Swat... Catherine Crouch perhaps?

My grader for 49 makes cute comments. I quote from my last problem set, though I can't include the illustrations or Greek letters:

Be careful with your mu's -- they look sort of like y's or p's, which gets confusing. To make them more mu-like... follow these simple steps:
1. upward stroke
2. u-shape
3. downward stroke
... tada! a mu of your very own.
Next week: needlepoint.

I've always known I have dreadful handwriting... In mechanics problems with two masses I never write M and m because that's just asking for myself to confuse the letters. And in a math thing where one potentially has mu's, u's, p's, and rho's floating around, all subscripted.... Or no, better yet: tensor stuff with g mu nu's and all those indices all over the place. When I was grading Physics 7 last year, I definitely remember Dina Aronzon telling me how bad my handrwiting was when she graded me in the class, although Dina doesn't have quite the same manner...

The Physics 111 exam went well enough, I suppose. crystalpyramid, blaketh, and David Cohen had some post-exam sake afterwards. The little I had was enough to get a little lightheaded and tipsy, as I have no tolerance for alcohol. I also went to the gym with crystalpyramid, which is something I hardly ever do given that I mostly run.