« Impressive Stuff | Main | Illness Strikes Cecil Esau B12 »
March 05, 2005
Lab ¹ Hit-on-Becca Time
I had my two-hour lab for combinatorics yesterday, and this guy sat next to me who spent the entire time talking to me instead of doing the exercises. Usually, I'm all about the chatting, but not when I have a dozen or so problems in front of me that are demanding my attention. At the beginning he was asking me how to do certain things, and I didn't feel like going over the common sense explanation of generating r-combinations for an n-set. So I kind of gave him the 20 second it's-not-that-complicated-just-do-this speech, and I kept working. But then he started asking other things, such as:
"Have you been clubbing yet?"
"No. I don't really do that very often."
"Yeah, me either. I just like hanging out at home with a few friends."
and
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"No."
"And why not?"
"Oh, just cuz."
and
"Where do you live?"
"In res."
"Which dorm?"
"Umm, Cecil Esau."
"I'll come visit you."
The thing about South African men is that they're very forward, and unless you're forward about the fact that you really aren't interested in them, they assume that you're just playing hard-to-get. But this guy seemed nice, so I didn't want to tell him to stop talking to me. However, I don't see anything happening with a mid-twenties computer scientist who can't get the hang of lexicographic order.
Posted by rgutwin at March 5, 2005 03:10 AM
Comments
Um, wait. You have "math lab"? Like chemistry lab except you sit there and do problems?
Why am I known as the geek of the family?
Posted by: Karl at March 5, 2005 09:07 AM
Hmm - now there's a litmus test for a boyfriend: "I'll go out with you if you can tell me what a Dedekind cut is", or "Sure I'll have coffee with you if you can draw K-5,5 right now".
And Dr. Karl has a point - I think we can now safely refer to you as one of the geeks of the family.
Posted by: Paul Gutwin at March 5, 2005 08:19 PM
Or my personal favorite: Prove effortlessly that the length of the median drawn to the hypotenuse of a right triangle is half the length of the hypotenuse.
NB: The person with whom I am going out informs me that he knows what a Dedekind cut is.
Posted by: Diana at March 6, 2005 12:11 AM
ummm... i care more about this situation with the guy than the math...math problems you can solve...how did you solve the "guy problem"? or...is it a problem??
Posted by: mom at March 6, 2005 06:55 PM
Hmmm, a guy is talking to Becca. I think that is a good thing, not a problem.
Posted by: Diana at March 7, 2005 12:13 AM
true :)
Posted by: mom at March 8, 2005 10:17 PM