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Carrying the trophy after a close victory

Engineering classes (mech, elec., computer.. etc) at the university are always competing for the “smartest class” title. To settle this, Genius Bowl was created. Genius Bowl is a trivia contest held for engineering students. Every class sends a team to the competition in hopes to answer the majority of questions, and taking home the trophy and of course, bragging rights.

Last year our team came in 3rd or 4th, I can't remember now, but this year was a different story. This year we took trophy mainly due to a genius we had on our team. We won $100, and we put it into the cancer fundraiser our faculty is running. Which brings me to the other topic of this post, and that is donations.

About a year ago one engineering student dies from cancer, and recently another was diagnosed with it. So the engineering society decided to launch a large fundraiser for cancer research.

Our class set a goal for $2000, and we reached that goal yesterday, one day before the deadline. One of our professors challenged us to raise $2000, and if we won the challenge he would shave his head! On a more painful note, one student agreed to WAX his chest if we reach our goal… ouch. Today after a horrible quiz we went down to the foyer to shave the professor’s head. Me being a smart ass, I told him that if he were to gives 5% extra on top of our final mark, we would let him keep his hair. He agreed, some students didn’t, and to his dismay his hair was shaved off.

The significance of shaving someone’s head is to show support for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, since these patients end up losing all their hair during their treatment.

It was definitely nice seeing everyone come together for a worthy cause.

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