Azuki Panda

I have Professor Blackwell for EMAC 351 this semester. I’ve actually had him before for EMAC 276, but it seems like this time around he’s gotten even more hilarious. He’s this quirky English professor with white hair who’s probably in his late 50s. He graduated from Leeds University in England many decades ago.

Sometimes he will go on tangents and start telling stories about things from back when he was a student or something else unrelated to Physical Chemistry but still very interesting (often a lot more interesting than Physical Chemistry). At the end of the story he realizes that he’s been talking for almost 5 minutes and then proceeds to say “….but I digress….” He gets really into his stories and it’s funny to see him get all worked up and excited. One story that he told was about how back when he was a student he had the opportunity to use the computer they had at Leeds, which was set up in a church next to the campus (apparently Leeds had bought some of the local churches as well as other property). He said that he remembers how the light coming in through the stained glass windows made the computer seem all that much more glorious. The story actually started when he mentioned that he had used that computer to calculate in 30 minutes what it took scientists in India weeks to compute by hand.

Some of his stories are really funny I should start documenting them. This post was written a bit late so I can’t remember that much more right now.