Neat hair and an honest shirt

Jim Cangelosi, my algebraic structures professor, is a very animated, very interesting guy. During Friday’s class, he stopped mid-sentence and turned to me and said, “You have really neat hair.” He paused. “Unlike Jaylee’s hair, which is just...pretty. Yours is neat and pretty, but Jaylee’s is just pretty.”

After class, Jim and I had an interesting exchange.

JIM: That’s an honest shirt.

He was referring to my Utah State Aggies hoodie.

ME: ...Thank you. I’m not sure what that means, but I’ll take it as a compliment.

JIM: It is.

A compliment from a friend

Vahan Petrosyan, one of Dave’s recitation leaders and a good friend of mine, paid me a great compliment today. I crossed paths with him and his girlfriend Ying in the engineering building today. The first thing he said had to do with Exam P.

VAHAN: How did you do?

ME: I passed!

Vahan smiled and gave me a high five.

VAHAN: That’s great!

ME: Yeah!

I hadn’t talked with Ying before.

YING: I do the review sessions for your probability class.

ME: Oh, yeah. I don’t think I’ve ever been to one of those.

VAHAN: Well you obviously don’t need it.

YING: Vahan told me that there was a super smart guy in that class.

ME: Thanks, Vahan!

I love compliments. I should give them more often, because they feel so good. Vahan has passed the first two actuarial exams, as has Ying, so they are both geniuses. Very cool.