Math Personalities

The Outspoken Guy You know the type - he's the one guy (and usually the same guy) in every lecture that is determined to answer every question that the Prof asks, determined to question everything the Prof says, determined to fix his mistakes, prove him wrong etc. It gets to the point where even Prof himself is tired of this guy. Most students can't be bothered to address the Prof, but this is the guy that insists on demonstrating the breadth of his intellect day in, day out.
Prime Habitat: In YOUR lecture

Show-off CSer c/o uwmathnerd: "These are the people that leave their Jobmine window open and talk really, really loud about interviews they have, jobs they've done, etc. They are always name dropping company names like Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sun, etc. Guys, we get it, you are smart."
Prime Habitat: Unix lab.

FOBs Fresh Off the Boat/International Student contigent. Hang out in packs amongst their own kind and speak EXCLUSIVELY in loud Cantonese/Mandarin. Refuse to assimilate to host society or associate with non-FOBS.
Prime Habitat: All over MC, K-Zone, BubbleTease, Campus Cove...

1.5 Generation Ethnic clique Like the FOBs in practice, but unlike the FOBs these are the folks that were born and raised in Canada but
(1) Grew up in in ethnic enclaves in the GTA suburbs or
(2) Grew up in all-white or multicultural environments, and have recently "rediscovered" their ethnic identity on campus. They congregate exclusively with those that share their skin hue and tend to dissociate from "outsider groups".
Prime Habitat: CASA/SASA meeting or Davis Centre

MathSoc Crew This is the same group of 10 or so that you see lounging around the giant white table outside the MathSoc Office. 24/7. The same group of 10 or so that sell the same stale overpriced pizza slices every Wednesday and (vainly) attempt to foster some semblance of school spirit in the Math Faculty. You start to wonder if they ever attend class...
Prime Habitat: Inside & outside the MathSoc Office - where else?

Comfy Lounge Geeks Not to be confused with the MathSoc Crew, these are same greasy guys that populate the malodorous, dimly lit "comfy" dungeon day in-day out playing Dungeons & Dragons or those who-knows-what fantasy card games. Even the MathSoc nerds tend to distance themselves from this notoriously unhygenic bunch.
Prime Habitat: Comfy Lounge - where else?

Wannabe Yuppies These are the types that reallly couldn't care less about the material they're studying; they study for the money. They study Chartered Accounting, Math/Business or Actuarial Science only to get the fuck out of Waterloo as soon as possible and start raking in the real $$$ ASAP.
Prime Habitat: Tatham Centre... for their 19th interview.

Double Degreers Close relative of the wannabe yuppie. Notoriously cocky bastards of Waterloo. Think they're hot shit. Turn their nose own lowly B.Math single-degreers. Two degrees (and egos) for the price of one.
Prime Habitat: Equal parts Waterloo and Laurier.

Skeptical Mathies These are the guys you see walking around with a glazed expression on their eyes, wondering why they enrolled in UW Math in the first place. They're not exactly sure what they're doing in Math, only that it was the one thing they were good at in High School and thought they'd take a hack at it at the University level.
Prime Habitat: Anywhere but MC (outside lecture hours)

The Graduate Student These are the perpetually confused plaid-shirt wearing older-looking folk that wander around carrying textbooks with words you can barely pronounce. The vast majority are foreign and come from one of four countries - Russia, China, India or Iran.
Prime Habitat: Inexplicably, tend to congregate in the DC cafeteria.