The second list.

TOP TEN
COMPLAINTS ABOUT
ECE 340

10. NO RECESS, EVER.

9. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IS TOO SEVERE FOR AN INCORRECT CONVOLUTION.

8. NO FINANCIAL INCENTIVES.

7. EVER-SLIDING CHALKBOARDS MAKE YOU DIZZY.

6. NO SPECIAL TREATMENT ON ONE’S BIRTHDAY.

5. DR. THARP WON’T READ TOP TEN LISTS ALOUD IN CLASS.

4. COFFEE AND DONUTS HAVE BEEN CONSPICUOUSLY OVERLOOKED EVER SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER.

3. CLASS ISN’T MUCH OF A DATING SCENE DUE TO DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF MALES.

2. DR. THARP NEVER SAYS “BOGUS”.

1. TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON MATH.

Postscript
The sliding chalkboards were exactly that: one chalkboard set in front of the other, both of them on a system of pulleys so that they slid past each other vertically. As the teacher would finish with one he’d send it sliding and rattling to the top, then pull the other one down, erase it, and start filling it. The whole effect was actually more hypnotizing than dizzying.