Well, doesn't this bring back college memories!
I have two - first, in LA school our first project was to team up and build a unique kite, with simple rules - it couldn't be store bought, it couldn't have a tail, and it had to fly. My partner and I designed one the day before (naturally, as we were still checking out the campus bar scene) in his apartment. Because it was raining, we tested it from his porch and it flew. Come the real test, the thing dove like crazy and wouldn't stay up. On the way home, we noticed that the A/C unit for his building was just above his door, and that exhaust was what made it fly.
The point of that excersise, BTW, was that even in landscape architecture your design shouldn't ever look like something else (no store bought), sometimes would have uniqure requirements that made no sense (no tail) and above all, had to be enineered to work, regardless of aesthetics. Please remember that valuble lesson as I do, when critiquing golf courses.
The other is from intramural football at Illinois. I quarterbacked the first dorm team ever to beat a frat team in IM football, at least according to the daily Illini at the time. So they came to cover our next game, which was against the math geeks. Those guys beat us with some incredibly complex plays, but mostly because they had a unique set of numbers on the jerseys that I couldn't stop laughing at, and which it took us too long to assign coverage. By the time the defensive captain called out, "Jeff, you got number 1.61803," he was gone! They also had 3.1416, (another had "pi") Avagadro's Number (6.23 -23) Infinity, and a number that was said to represent the gross national product of a third world country. (And here, I thought it represented a Fazio budget, until I realized - not big enough!)
Shivas, with still two high schoolers left, I can;t count the number of projects where I, uh, helped my kids, only to find that some parents really go all out!
Too goofy to even post, if it weren't Friday afternoon!