Feat of Nerdiness: The Wall of xkcd

I'm going to miss my suite from last year. I was living with two CS concentrators (yes, Brown is too pretentious to call it a major), an applied math/econ concentrator, and an applied math concentrator (the only other girl in the suite; she also happened to move out half-way through the year, ensuring the toilet seat would ALWAYS be up). I myself am a math/CS concentrator. In short, I was living in an excess of math.

Our greatest expression of geekdom was the wall of xkcd in our common room. This was already a nerdy wall. Josh had brought a white board back after Thanksgiving break, and it was being used regularly for illustrating reductions or the Ballmer peak. While we were watching the election, I got bored of watching results come in and writing sonnets to the boy I was about to get back together with only to break up again in May. I decided the white board wall needed to be covered in xkcd. We had already talked about having an xkcd wall and had recorded the numbers of our favorite comics. I printed out all of these comics, added the title and alt-text in a purple pen, and attached them to the wall with copious amounts of packing tape.

Finally, Obama was declared the next president of the United States, and all of Brown campus marched, ran and danced their way to the capitol building. It was only when I got up the next morning for CS51 that I realized it said PENISES in giant letters on our wall.