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OMG I feel your pain! When I was taking Vibrations with Jaclyn senior year I think she mentioned that you just called it “squiggle.” I used to just draw the hat part and then squiggle down for a little. That character is so dumb and it’s all over the place in Vibrations, as if the class weren’t frustrating enough

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Ah, looks calligraphic. Makes me glad I have nothing to do with engineering. And yet, it’s kind of pretty.

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I have memories of going through notes for some class, ‘then we multiply by squiggle, wtf is squiggly???’

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Yeah, we called it “the squiggle” and “the crazy.”

I hate zeta.

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That’s not too bad. It’s like a wide cursive ‘C’ with a tail.

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I swear it’s a deceiving little bugger. Deceiving and dangerous. Do not be tricked.

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I’m glad some else shares my detest for this character. It’s near impossible to even do consistently so that you can recognize your own version of it in notes.

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I also hate how in vibrations you somehow end up using both a capital and lowercase X. So you have to spend all that time putting serifs on your stupid capital Xs

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i called it the sperm. and when i drew it it looked like one.

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Wow. This takes me back to freshman year and differential equations. I loved the class, but there was one section that used zeta over and over again, and I had a really strange mental block against it. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one.

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What a fantastic response from Zeta Haters!!

Thanks to everyone for helping me cope with frustrating variables.

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Ah, yes, “squigma” — such a foul character.

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