next time you eat peanut M&Ms spin one like a top it should flip up so it spinning on its skinny axis... and there you have why I became a physicist. For years that boggled my mind and was a frequent party trick. I didn't solve it until my first year as a graduate student in Classical Mechanics.

Man I miss that professor. Half of me wishes I could get him to tape his lectures. They were so clear. Seriously, it was amazing. He could have taught a monkey quantum field theory. I had him as an undergrad and hated it. He made things so incredibly clear that they were boring.

It wasn't until I learned hard things that appreciated a teacher who explained things 3 different ways and only focused on a couple topics.