One week ago today I tried my second group ride. We left early because will overestimated my slowness. We arrived at the parking lot of Atlanta cycling about 15 minutes early and just tried to stay tucked away in the corner until it was time to get started. After a few minutes, a guy asked us (because of our jerseys) if we went to Tech or if we were alums. We told him that we were grad students but did undergrad there also, in AE and he told us he was an architecture major, bs in 82 masters in 88. He mentioned that at one point he had to take a materials class from an AE professor... did we by chance ever have a professor named Virgil Smith?
Virgil Smith... aka the Devil Himself. Brought out of retirement to teach AE Dynamics in the Summer of 2003 because there was no one else to do it. The one who failed 23 of 26 people. The one where my 46 on a test was actually one of the highest grades in the class. The one that told us that the homeless people out on North Avenue would make better engineers.
The Devil, apparently, is timeless.
But, I do credit that class with introducing me to Will.
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