be careful who you live with

i can't stand it anymore. someone's just GOT to do this.



mike judge, the creator of beavis and butthead graduated from UCSD (where i went to for undergrad) with a PHYSICS degree in 1985. a rumor has it that during his last year as an undergraduate, he lived with 2 graduate students in physics. these 2 gradstudents then became a model for beavis and butthead.

years later, these 2 graduate students went on to become physics professors at UCSD. to the left is david kleinfeld, one of the prominent biophysicists at UCSD, and to the right is jim branson, an experimental particle physicist who heads some of the projects in LHC in CERN, geneva.

i am not shitting you. i have had 3 classes with branson, and he does the typical HUR HUR HUR laugh that butthead does. i have also heard from people who work with kleinfeld that he cusses just about as much as beavis does.

i love my undergraduate years. this post is by no means intended to disrespect the professors. i truly enjoyed being in 3 of dr. branson's class, and his online quantum mechanics notes is a life-saver. the greatest moment was when he tried to roll down the screen he used for his powerpoint lectures and it took him about 20-30 tries before it finally stopped trying to roll itself back up. he then proceeded to say, "a theorist would've given up by now," which had me rolling on the floor laughing.