This is from my tenth grade Biology class, sometime in 1990...

The scenario was, each student in the class had to give an oral report on some assigned disease. We were all expected to take notes on each presentation for use in an open-notes quiz at the end.

Well, the first report was really light on facts so I only used one line of my notepaper. Being anal, I got the bright idea to restrict my notes on all the reports to only one line. The end result was rather beautiful. (Here's one suitable for use as a 1024x768 desktop background.) That tick mark between Chestnut Blight and Mumps denotes where my speech landed. I'm a little surprised that I don't recall my topic.

I'm fairly certain I did not do well on the quiz. The teacher was kind of a ball-breaker, saw my notes, and was not amused by my cavalier attitude towards her weeklong infectious diseases parade.

Gives you an idea about the kind of student I was.