The names I know...

[Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>]

Today, as I was coming down the stairs, a student stopped me for a
question about project 2 submission. The disconcerting part was that I
had no idea that this person was a student in the class.  This is
pretty unsettling for me--normally I can atleast recognize the face,
if not put a name to the face.

So, I thought I should check which names in the class roster have
corresponding faces in my mind. Here is the list of students, with *s
in front of names I recognize, - in front of names I "sort of"
recognize and ? in front of the rest--who are unknown to me at this
point :-(

Note that most of the names I recognize fall into a couple of
categories--

(a) they are active participants in the class--they ask questions
(b) they asked questions outside the class
(c) they are active sleepers/state-press readers in the class and
(d) they were known to me before, or are somehow easily marked.


Of course, I don't know everyone that falls into these classes either.

I count 24 *s, 5 -'s and 18 ?'s. Would be nice if I manage to whittle
down the ?'s (if for no other reason then to be able to call someone
by their name and wake 'em up when they fall asleep at my apparently
sonorous voice ;-)


Rao
[Oct 16, 2003]

ps: As I write this mail, I am reminded of passages from an articler
called "Harvard Guide to Happiness"--FYI, here is the URL.

http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~tadepall/advising/harvardGuide.html

=======================names i know==================================
?MULLINS 	JOHN 	RYAN
*DOW 	ERIN 	ELIZABETH
*FIDUCCIA 	VINCENT 	JAMES
?KERICK 	JAMES 	CHARLES
?WILCOX 	KURT 	SHELDON
*CUSHING 	WILLIAM 	A
?RUOFF 	JOSHUA 	C
-ZIETAL 	KONRAD 	M
*KALE 	SHREYAS 	ABHAY
*CHAVEZ 	ROBERT 	
?ANDERSON 	MATTHEW 	JAMES
?MCFADDEN 	MICHAEL 	J
-CALL 	ANDREW 	BENJAMIN
-ASHE 	GABRIEL 	LAWRENCE
*DINCHAK 	THOMAS 	WILLIAM
?CHRISTIANSEN 	MARTIN 	JOHN
?GURASICH 	STEPHEN 	JAMES
*ANSARI 	MOHAMMED 	SHAYAN
-COOK 	SHAWN 	FRANK
?BARR 	ADAM 	JUSTUS
?PHELPS 	JARED 	HITE
?WALLACE 	RICHARD 	WAYNE
?HARMON 	DANIEL 	LAMAR
-BUSH 	LEE 	DANIEL
?CAMPBELL 	STEVEN 	D
?COMMISSO 	STEPHEN 	ANTHONY
*DEARING 	JENNIFER 	ANN
?SHCHUKIN 	NIKITA 	V
*SHAH 	KALPESH 	KHERAJ
?WOLD 	ROBERT 	CHARLES
*AKINDURO 	TEMITOPE 	
*PADNICK 	JOSHUA 	MARK
*OBERMILLER 	NILS 	NIKLAS
*HERNANDEZ 	THOMAS 	L
?MEYER 	NEAL 	GRIFFIN
*RADTKE 	NICHOLAS 	PATRICK
?MORTENSEN 	ZACHARY 	M
*HUNSAKER 	MATTHEW 	ALAN
*LI 	YICHENG 	
*MAKO 	THOMAS 	JOSEPH
*GALAN 	MAGDIEL 	F
*FAN 	JIANCHUN 	
*NAGARAJAN 	SARAVANAKUMAR 	
*VADREVU 	SRINIVAS 	
*JANAKIRAMAN 	SHIVASHANKAR 	
*BHIMAVARAPU 	RAVI 	SEKHAR
=======================names i know==================================