No big deal or anything...

Chris, this is for you, for making me sound cool.

As you probably saw on Facebook today I figured out that Vladimir Nabokov wrote Lolita while he was a prof at Cornell and he almost burned the manuscript in his backyard in Collegetown (which would have changed literary history). The article is actually pretty cool even if you don't get the stuff about Ithaca: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15632264&BRD=1395&PAG=461&dept_id=216620&rfi=6
Chistopher Reeve was a Cornell grad too. It makes sense, you pretty much need to be superman to make it up 60 degree inclines, survive SWINE epidemics, and pull a 2.0 at Cornell.
Of course you know about Bill Nye being a grad and prof here. I'm going to pee my pants when I see him.
Thomas Pynchon is also a Cornell grad but you've probably never heard of him. I'm reading his book Gravity's Rainbow right now because a Facebook quiz told me it represented me. If you like sci-fi, anti-utopian novels, rockets, bombs, octopuses, sex, rooftop banana gardens, and a complete disregard for the plot, you would love it. I know I do.
So I decided that I'm not going to feel bad about not being as awesome as all the smarty pantses here that are already in multivariable calc as freshman, because when they were my age those snooty bitches were in high school.
CARL