Caitlin Woodward

My algorithms professor writes the lowercase letter "l" with loops. Because of this, whenever he writes the word loop, it actually looks like "Poop". See picture (I apologize for my paint-like version; it wasn't worth the trouble of writing and scanning).

Now, I don't know why I hadn't noticed this before. I've had him for another programming class before, where we have talked extensively about loops.

So in class on Friday, he was talking about loop invariants. And, on the board, he wrote the words "loop invariant", with a rather large loop on the l, and it stood out bright, "poop invariant" was written on the board. I was immediately amused, but shortly forgot about it. About twenty minutes later, Teddy, sitting next to me, leaned over and whispered, "That looks like poop invariant." I replied with a bit of excitement, at the fact that someone else noticed, "I know!" And then for some reason I couldn't stop thinking about it. My professor, in the middle of lecturing, turned around and looked at me, noticing that I had a grin on my face - which only made me grin more. I saw him pause his words slightly, with a hint of a smile reflecting my grin, and almost stopping to question, but he continued on with his lecture.

If he had asked, I would have told him without hesitation about what I found so funny. Which I think would have made the situation even more funnier: the only girl, in a class of college boys, pointing out such testosteronic humor.