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1. Do you remember your campus mailbox number? - Nope. It was in the right "hole" as you're facing the mailroom, though.



2. What was your favorite class? - Almost anything music related



3. What was your least favorite class? - Speech 100. Also, it was my worst grade. Yes, that's connected.



4. After leaving Mount Union, how long before you got your first letter asking for donations? - Probably about 5 minutes



5. Did you truly fall in love at MUC? - Yes, although it's taken a while to stick. We're finally getting married June 21.



6. How many parking tickets did you get slammed with? - None. No car until my senior year, and then Sas and I had a system to get the two best spots next to Cunningham (our lobby is mauve)



7. What was your favorite meal at the cafeteria? - Anything that stuck to the wall or that Tony could make look obscene.



8. Were you in a fraternity/sorority? - not unless K K Psi counts.



9. Did you ever sneak a guy/girl upstairs in the dorm after visiting hours? - Yes. The trick was to take them to the bathroom shortly before visiting hours ended.



10. Which dorms did you live in? - Cunningham Room 321 for 4 years (Also occasionally known as Starbase 321: Entropy Central)



11. Did you ever get caught with a pet in the dorms? - No, but there was a praying mantis that liked our stairway.



12. Did you ever get in trouble for sneaking booze in the dorms? - Nope. I think McCoy was right, no one got in trouble for this.



13. Is there a song that makes you remember a time at Mount Union? - The fight song, alma mater, Personal Jesus, almost anything from the early 90s that was on MTV in the campus center lounge before lunch (when they still played videos on MTV)



14. What did you major in? - Computer Science. Minored in Music and Math



15. Did you have a nickname? - Kirsten, boyfriend of Bob.



16. What are some of your fondest memories?
    
    
    
    • Watching "Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Gr..." in a dorm room full of people who all quoted along.
    
    
    
    • Going to movies at the "Small" with the gang and eating from Sas' huge tub of popcorn, so he'd have it empty to refill on the way out.
    
    
    
    • (related to above). Watching "Star Trek: Generations" at the "Small", and Sas said "Oh, Sh!t" just before Data did when the ship was about to crash
    
    
    
    • Nighthawks and the Peanut Gallery at WRUM, rum radio (not really, but that's what the fire extinguisher said)
      
      
      
      • Doing the Personal Jesus dance to "Cotton Eyed Joe"
      
      
      • Some strange guy name James McGee calling :)
      
      
      • Philosophical terms that sounded like diseases.
      
      
      • Ordering pizza from Sas.
      
      
    
    
    • Marching band
      
      
      
      • Meeting Kristen
      
      
      • Singing the "I hate this marching band" words to the fight song.
      
      
      • Sharing a blanket with Kristen in the stands at cold football games.
      
      
      • Half the marching band coming to practice drunk and then asking to go to the bathroom at the same time.
      
      
      • The Mount Union Marching Raiders led onto the field by Marching Mount Marty!
      
      
      • Amoeba/Sperm drills (Ok, fond might be strong)
      
      
      • The bass drums in the marching band putting the letters "MUC" on their drum heads....not realizing that they swapped positions during the course of the drill so that it spelled "CUM" for a while. THAT was classic.
      
      
      • Brett Smith calling roll-offs without numbers like: "a be, a bep, a beep beep beep beep" Or something like that.
      
      
      • Tuba players spinning on the field.
      
      
      • Tuba players and drummers dancing around during the "Bare Necessities"
      
      
    
    
    
    • GABLE meetings (strange, but enlightening)
    
    
    
    • Euchre!
    
    
    
    • Sitting in the Mac lab and chatting with people from all over the world. I gotta agree with the other guys on this -- talkers rocked.
    
    
    
    • Dr. Funk singing the sopranos' high A in a rehearsal before a concert at First UMC in Warren
    
    
    
    • The "Route 62" mens ensemble singing "Busy Signals" and "Hotline to God" from Cottonpatch Gospel
    
    
    
    • Drunken Nintendo players at parties in Brett Baker's room.
    
    
    
    • Derek R. passed out with his forehead in the urinal in the men's room (after drinking most of a bottle of 151)
    
    
    
    • Eating out with Steve.
    
    
    
    • Tony's computer on fire
    
    
    
    • Recording our own "Ni!"
    
    



17. What's one thing you'd like to erase from your mind? - Allowing Kristen to get away. This has finally been rectified.



18. Who was/were your roommate(s)? - Bob "Reeses Cups on Pizza" Buhecker, Brent "Up all night hacking, and almost sleeping through the fire" Irwin, and Eric "All the pop must fit in the fridge" Sasavicz



19. Did you have a close circle of friends, all around social butterfly, or loner? - I seemed to hang out with a gang of loners, even though that doesn't make much sense.



20. Favorite Convocation memory? - Can't think of any.



21. Did you ever have a crush that you never shared or pursued? - Yes.



22. Did you play sports? - Marching band should really be a sport.



23. Is there someone you've lost touch with and wish you could find? - I've been lucky to keep in touch with the closer friends. There are some people I'm sure I wouldn't mind seeing again, like Dan Sommers...



24. Is there someone you didn't know well then, but now have grown closer to? - Can't think of Any.



25. How did MUC make you better? - I learned a lot, and learned that I still had a lot to learn. I figured out some of my limitations there.



26. Did you ever see a ghost on campus? - No, but I heard some great stories, especially about the one at Dussell.



27. Who were your best friends? - I think they know who they are. Bovine Alliance/Peanut Gallery/Music geeks, etc.

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true ... If our hypothesis is about anything, and not about some one or more particular things, then our deductions constitute mathematics. Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. People who have been puzzled by the beginnings of mathematics will, I hope, find comfort in this definition, and will probably agree that it is accurate.
Recent Work on the Principles of Mathematics, published in International Monthly, vol. 4 (1901)

• I'm still working at PayPal, having survived yet another layoff in my career.
• The Stragglyrs
  
  • released their 5th full-length album, National Insecurity
  • added Hank Van Buren regularly to gigs
  • are playing Saturday at Mission Pizza and Pub
  • are glad that we may have to retire some of our political songs soon, but realize that the election of Obama is just the beginning of possible change.
• Autumn and the Fall Guys
  
  • have slacked off a little bit from our peak average of 2 shows a week, but are still playing fairly frequently.
  • lost a saw player and gained a drummer
• I went to Portland, ME with my fiancee Kristen to visit our college friend Bryan Nolan McCoy  (Note: he would want me to say that his birthday is in 9 days, go buy presents)
• I went back to dear ol' MUC for homecoming and the Alumni Marching Band with my father, brother Andy, and fiancee Kristen.
• Wedding plans are moving along well.