Is totally an anime nerd--for evidence, check out her Inuyasha laptop bag, or the P-Chan pin she wears sometimes. Also, one of her computers is inuyasha.cs.hmc.edu.
Don't call her "Professor". Or better yet, do.
Quotes:
"We don't want to go around exposing private parts"
"You might remember from CS70...although you might just remember CS70 like it was Vietnam."
ProfessorONeill: That's the advantage of an open book exam: I can't ask you about something you already know, so I have to ask you about something new.
Class: But we don't have a book for this class.
"Vi is like an infection, and one person passes it on to another."
"When you go to a thread, and 'p' on it... that was a terrible use of language there."
"Randomized binary trees make ProfessorRan cry."
"I can has CS70!"
WynnVonnegutt?: Could we use some kind of template-like thingy?
MelissaONeill?: You probably could, but I don't even want to think about that.
"So let's say I have a program for assigning grades in CS70, but I don't want you to know it's actually a random number generator."
"When I first read this, I thought it said 'Biology + Algorithms = Fail', but then I realized it actually said 'Biology + Algorithms = Fun'!"
"I had a whole diatribe this morning, which I'll have to give you for completeness."
"I want to insult your intelligence, as I love to do."
"I'm uncertain, which is a cool thing for me..."
"It is kinda somewhat O-tastic."
"It's kinda like if a friend comes to your dorm room and asks, 'Do you have something to eat?' and you hand them a box of crayons."
"Geoff, you are making the world a worse place."
"And you would sort of expect that because--oh, no you wouldn't, we just got lucky."
On colloquium cookies not showing up one week: "I believe that is what we call a 'first world problem'."
We spent time in class, and I learned a thing, and I will never forget it now.
That burn I feel is me learning.
That'll teach me to copy and paste code.
(On [1]++ and similar): I would almost certainly give you full credit, but I would shudder a little.
It's a bit "Department of Redundancy Department", but...
That's what I get for writing new questions. I should have just got with the "map map" one; it got worse from there...
This is where the going gets a little bit weird.
If you have the opportunity to join a company and they offer you a position working on their industrial-strength garbage collector, then... Well, if it's a really good team then maybe join. But if you're starting the team, just walk away.
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