New! Evelina's Quotes can be found here
August 4, 2001
"How do I get this pie into this cup?" -John F
"I have a cup o' pie." -John F
"On the first day of school I'm going to tell some girl I was a MOPper and see if she'll make out with me." -Eric
August 3, 2001
"I need a four dimensional hand transplant." -Kevin
August 2, 2001
"Tell him I'm your imaginary friend." -Arvy
July 31, 2001
"Boink! is an official mathematical term." -Shapiro
"One of the challenges of this talk is that most of you don't know what a group is." -Guest speaker, about to give a talk on group theory
August 1, 2001
"Luckily the pigeons get smaller and smaller as we keep stuffing them in the holes." -Shapiro
July 30, 2001
"I will try to give the lecture in my soothing voice." -Susan
Susan: And we know this because...?
Tim starts talking and talking and talking..
Susan: What? We've gotten to week seven and you suddenly think you're too good for WOP?
July 25, 2001
"Don't terrify Jacob Lurie. He's a nice boy." -Anna M
July 24, 2001
trying to explain limericks to Evelina:
Me: Steve Byrnes once went to MOP.
Me: He also really liked WOP.
Anna: He had a stalker named Eve.
Anna: And his name was Steve.
Eric: And you two better fucking stop.
July 23, 2001
"So in order to show your inability to think, you beat your head against a wall?" -Tim
"It's good to be literate. It's not good to be literate in the middle of seminar." -Susan
"You're like a miniature Gauss!" -Kevin
July 22, 2001
"Anna said fuck! Anna said fuck!" -Evelina
"Vlad's gone bad." -Anna P
July 20, 2001
on Reid Barton:
Anna G: Wow, and he's going to go to MIT with me.
Me: If you date him...
Anna G: Don't worry. If I date anyone you've been talking about all summer, I'll slit my wrists before you kill me.
"Homophobia - the fear of homomorphism." -Anna G
Anna P: It was sort of an old fashioned camp. When they sang it, they had to make it 'When I think about you I touch my shelf.'
Evelina: Did you go to a nun camp?
July 18, 2001
"I just believe that you can't come to terms with the softer side of yourself so you have to belittle Wiles crying." -Susan
Anna G: Let's sacrafice Eve to Gauss.
Tim: Why?
Anna G: Well, Eve likes contest math. And Gauss is cool.
Tim: Okay, works for me.
July 16, 2001
"This once again proves that 2 is the oddest prime of all." -Shapiro
"That's when you write 'Aren't calculators nice? Minus ten.'" -Elizabeth
July 15, 2001
Some kids playing volleyball: Hey, you guys wanna come play wih us? We'll give you a dollar!
Evelina: No! We've gotta do math!
July 14, 2001
Eric: Yo mamma sucks.
Arvy: In bed.
Eric: No, she'll do it on a street corner.
Anna P: What do you call a wafer named Melanie?
Me: I don't know. What?
Anna P: A smart cookie.
July 13, 2001
"Let 2 be an odd prime." -Anna P
July 12, 2001
"She is way more attractive than she has a right to be." -Eric
"Some people in this program are weird. I guess they can't all be normal like me." -Paul
July 11, 2001
"Hey, I'm the cheese queen." -Evelina
July 10, 2001
Me: You're eating paper.
John F: Yes I am.
July 9, 2001
"Eve, stop disproving my illogical conjectures." -Tim
"That's exciting. I'd like to stay. I'd really like to stay and heckle." -Shapiro
"You know it's really amazing - I can't see the people behind me unless I turn around." -Anna G
"We are NOT going to prove the four color theorem. This so has nothing to do with anything we should be doing." -Susan, after going off on a fifteen minute tangent
July 8, 2001
Most of Ross at 4:30 AM when the fire alarm went off: Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Brice. Happy birthday to you.
Someone: Now blow out the building!
"This is like the serial joke - it doesn't make sense and it bothers me." -Anna G
"Then it all comes down to a polynomial equal to one half, which is just sine of sixty!" -Tim
Anna P: Melanie! Melanie!
Me: Are you saying Melanie?
Anna P: Well, you said Zp[x].
"Ricky's a geek and I don't want to talk to him." -Tim
"I got a better preferences." -Evelina
"Projectiles hurled at me are not returned." -Tim
"It would be so great if a guy showed up to morning lecture wearing a tuxedo." -Austin
Me: It won't work unless it has lattice points as its vertices.
Tim: Well, then we can make it a rectangular donut.
"I will derive! Don't drink and drive!" -Laura
"Life is fun, for I am tall." -Tim
July 7, 2001
Arvy: How much is PROMYS?
Me: About $1500. MOP is free.
Eric: So is crack. The first time.
"I swear if he doesn't marry a mathematician, he'd marry a math book." -Evelina
"I'll be scratching my butt the whole day long." -Austin
"If you don't make the IMO team, you can always become a poet or something like that." -Matth, after reading my terrible poetry proof
"Do not fold your soda can when you're drinking out of it." -Evelina
July 5, 2001
"I shall return with large quantities of things which need stapling." -Tim
Austin: Eve!
Me: Austin!
Austin: It's Eve!
Me: It's Austin!
Austin: Timmy!
"It's not as if Batman is facist." -Haiwen
"I'm not very much a math fan." -Haiwen
"Is sweat a natural flavor?" -Haiwen
"P6. Should we attempt to do this or should I strangle you now?" -Evelina
Evelina: You need to meet this woman already!
Me: If, on some off off chance she comes to the reunion, I will go crazy.
Benny: Aren't you already crazy?
Me: I will go MORE crazy.
Benny: Can you stay away from me?
July 3, 2001
"This is a huge WOP thing. WOP on top of WOP on top of WOP. Did you know WOP spelled backwards is POW?" -Shapiro
July 2, 2001
"I am not just a building." -Anna G
"I am not just a chicken. I am also a moose." -Anna P
Inna: May I erase the statement about the chicken?
Kevin: No, it's very deep.
Inna: Yes, it bothers me a lot.
"More importantly, they aren't like nerdy or anything." -Susan, on mathematicians
"There's a generator in the first even prime and I know what it is!" -Anna G
"I think zero is a unit mod 1. I'm thinking 1 could be prime." -Anna G
Tim: Man, why am I so oblivious?
Rich: It's because you're good at math.
July 1, 2001
"I think I'm going to use WOA - the Well-Ordering Axiom." -Anna G
"I want to prove a bijection. Wait. No I don't. What am I talking about?" -Tim
"I have to go to MOP to badly beat him up at some point." -Tim
"Well defined. WD. It's not even WD40. It's simpler than oil!" -Anna G
June 30, 2001
"You have neat handwriting." -Tim, to me
June 29, 2001
"Note that I'm a number theorist by trade, so I don't really count as sane." -Susan, seminar instructor
Austin: DId I hear prove?? Is someone trying to prove something?
David: Yeah, we're trying to prove the existance of God.
Austin: Use WOP.
Arvy: Use eWOP.
"People are the most cute when they're obsessed with something." -Austin
"More pizza?! I think I'm just going to give up math and go into the pizza business." -Austin
"I wish I was named Mr. Cuffle." -Eric
June 26, 2001
"Darn. I can't make 'stalker' out of this." -Tim, trying to make an anagram of Eve Drucker
Arvy: What's MOP?
Anna P: They provide janitorial supplies.
"I'm talking to myself and working on problems and looking at the waffle lights." -Anna P
"Kill all the multiples of 5!" -Tim
June 25, 2001
Me: I want to be her.
Brice: You mean physically?
Me: Well, I guess...more like have her mathematical ability.
Brice: Oh. BE her. I thought you wanted to BEAT her physically.
June 20, 2001
"He's a very nice person. He's just a jerk." -Anna G.
"I can't play mafia. It offends my religion. WOP does not offend my religion." -Lester
"Neither does eWOP." -Lester
"Are you pointing out my illogical conjectures?" -Tim
"What the hell is wrong with you? And I mean that in the nicest possible way." -Richard
Susan: We can call it axiom 18.
Anna P: We can call it axion fluffy.
June 18, 2001
"We have problem sets every day and today is a day." -Shapiro
"Let me quickly do some math and I shall return." -Tim
"How many 6's can I steal? I can bring it down to 4. Hehe." -Tim
"Congruence mod m means they're congruent mod m." -Tim
"This isn't math camp. It's survival camp. We provide you with crossbows." -Eric
Anna P: Why throw stuff at me? Throw stuff at Eve. She's more crazy than I am.
Anna G: Why throw stuff at crazy people?
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