Allison Gruber

Thousandaire

There was a science prof at the college where I got my BA, whose name was Bill Miller, and some of the students who knew him (and he was a popular, well-liked guy for good reason) would refer to him as the "Billion Million" because Bill Miller knew a "million billion" things on all matter of subjects, and also it was funny to follow the bigger number with a smaller number. I don't know if Bill Miller actually knew a "billion million" things, I never took his classes because I was strictly humanities all the time except for when I was busy flunking Applied Mathematics (seriously, my undergrad institution was desperate to see me through a math class) which was basically "math for math dummies." And even Math For Math Dummies 101 was a struggle for me.