the physical dangers of m@th 9rad student life.

you'd think that being a mathematician or rather, a m@th 9rad student, is a pretty safe job. myself, i've been in numerous scrapes and accidents ..

.. but when i think of all the math 9rads at U of M that i know who have suffered broken bones here,

• one recently broke his femur bone while playing ultimate frisbee on a grassy field --
  
  
• one broke his right humerus bone (the one between the shoulder and the elbow) while trying to dunk a basketball on an outdoor court --
  
  
• one broke a bone in her forearm (either the radius or the ulna) during a game of ultimate frisbee, when she struck another woman in the head while throwing --
  
  (interestingly enough, the other woman only suffered a minor concussion.)
  
  
• one broke his right humerus in an arm-wrestling contest against another math grad --
  

and then there are the usual finger dislocations and broken ankles from basketball, fractures from car accidents, and dislocated shoulder sockets from weight-lifting.

i guess we are an accident prone bunch. oh well: at least our health insurance covers visits to the emergency room.