In an introductory TA meeting today we had to split up a large pile of survey consent forms for the students to fill out later these week — 24 to each section, for 4 sections per TA, that’s 96 sheets of paper. Well, who wants to count out 96 sheets of paper? So my friend had the good idea of optimizing the procedure by weighing 12 sheets and calculating the mass we’d need to fill out the required 96. OK, but of course we needed to properly arrange the papers on the scale so they weren’t partially being held up by the attached cables, and then, being physicists, we’re no good at mental math ;-) suffice it to say we were pretty nearly the last ones out.

And that was a lousy story. Oh well, guess you had to be there…