The face of Computer Science
I headed to the CS department website to lookup the Academic Office contact information, and low and behold, my own face was looking back at me. Yep, I must say, my roguish good looks have once again landed me as the icon for another academic organization. I was previously featured in the marketing propaganda for Hill Murray just after I graduated High School. I don’t know what it is that keeps these schools flocking to me. My witty grin, my sparkling eyes, or my complete lack of fashion sense that screams “he’d better be smart, or else he’s screwed.”
Ironically, I think I may be the only CS student in that picture. I know Leo (the girl) is Electrical Engineering, and I’m not sure about the other guy (I forget his name), but I think he might be EE as well. I think this is Leo’s second stand on the front page. They (of course) took lots of pictures in various settings and are apparently rotating them periodically. The only picture they had previously used of me was on the awards page burried deep in the website.
Other individuals I know involved in this mosaic* of both real and fictitious CS students include the following.
- Parisa and Amanda. Paris is a legit CS student, but Amanada is actually a mechanical engineer. Amanda was only there because I was going to give her and Ben (her husband) a ride home after the photo shoot.
- Another one of Parisa. Lets face it. They’re trying to show that there are girls here. In reality, there are more X than Y chromosomes around, but I wouldn’t put the ratio much higher to 11 to 9 (you figure out what that comes to).
* hehehe, it’s a play on words ’cause it’s UIUC — you geeks who know history will get that