I got #7 from Mary Carr, so here goes. 1. Jeremy Whittington and I played a prank on our mutual friend, David Casper by going to the bank, getting $10 in pennies, filling up two Shakespeares cups with them, running into his room while he was playing WoW screaming Rocky Balboa at the top of our lungs and throwing the pennies everywhere. (In our defense, he wouldnt hang out with us, so we decided to persuade him by throwing pennies in his room) Caspers first reaction was one of simple pure hatred as he calmly but angrily asked us to pick up the pennies and get out of his room. We picked up what we could in the large piles, but most of the pennies were left in his room. For the next several months he kept finding pennies everywhere, in his bed under the covers, on the floor, on the windowsill, in the closet. (places where we didnt even throw the pennies) It is our goal in life to someday fill Caspers entire car with pennies. It will be awesome. Later on that day, Jeremy and I went walking downtown to find something to do and we were still carrying the pennies. A group was asking for donations for cancer research or something and we turn to each other take the pennies and tell them Oh, youve hit the jackpot! and proceeded to pour several lbs. of pennies into each of their baskets. 2. Im allergic to the following foods/beverages: Caffeinated beverages, chocolate, and oats. 3. When I was the president of the Biological Engineers club I won a contest called the You Decide/We Provide campaign which was a $1000 gift from Burns & McDonnell. Whichever group had the most votes won the money and we only had ~15 members at the time compared to other groups on campus which had at least a few hundred. I knew we had no chance normally so I looked at the competition very closely. We could vote as many times as we wanted per day so I used my extensive engineering knowledge to contact a friend to make a computer macro to auto vote for the club 30,000 times so that we would win... We won and I consider this to be why my engineering skill is top notch. I get things done, no matter what. 4. At one point I bowled a 200 which meant I had beaten my dad, Michael Goldschmidt, at every single board game, card game, physical game, and video game that he had ever played in his life. The very next game we played at the bowling alley, he bowled a 208 and he promptly retired from bowling with me after that in fear that I would rewin the title of beating him at every game again. 5. I was the Missouri state chess champion in sixth grade. Harrisburg even made the top ten schools, despite the fact that I was the only person playing on the Harrisburg team. (usually you have teams of 4-6) Also, during a previous tournament, I made a kid cry by beating him at chess by drawing the game out to over 90 moves, not because I needed to in order to win, but because I wanted to crush his spirit and demotivate him from playing chess ever again because he kept bragging about how he would beat kids in 4 moves with his queen and a bishop which demoralized everyone he played at the tournament except me. I got into the local paper for winning the tournament, and he got into the paper in answer to the question what his favorite piece was I like my queen. She always does the job. which was true until I faced him, drew the game out to 90+ moves and made sure to take his queen first. 6. I used to work at Plaza 900 which is a dining hall on campus. When I worked there, I was incorrectly trained on the cash register and I used to ring people up in the Emporium for the random food they would get. Apparently the machine is supposed to make two dings for it to actually take the points from the cards, however, when I would do it it would only make one ding. This meant nothing was actually getting charged. I found this out after several months of working there and when I calculated how much money I lost Plaza 900 based upon the average number of hours I worked and how many customers we had, I realized I had single handedly lost their organization ~$60,000 in a three month period. After that job I worked for Dr. John Viator, who at one point asked me to learn how to fix the ND:YAG laser we had by giving me a 300 page manual to read. I removed the optics, cleaned them, and did everything correctly to fix the laser, except that I put the optics in backwards (no where in the manual did it mention they had directionality). When we used the laser it worked fine for a while until the optics broke because of it and we had to spend a few thousand dollars to fix the laser. Therefore, my claim to fame is that Ive single handedly lost more money in two major jobs Ive had than most people actually make in their jobs in a single year. 7. I love attending sci-fi conventions with my friends, Cristin Thompson-Watkins, and Ben Watkins. Weve gone to Starwars conventions, Ecto-con (ghostbusters), and many other conventions, and I have a blast at each of them. Ive dressed up as an armored Jedi, a regular jedi, and as a fan many times. I plan on making a steampunk costume sometime soon.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:49:37 +0000