When Dr. Gullickson was assigning project mates for his introduction to experimental psychology class， I secretly hoped he would pair me with my best friend or at least a classmate I could have some fun with. Above all， I hoped he wouldn't assign me to work with the intense， fiercely competitive， singularly serious fellow who always wore dark clothes and apparently had a personality to match. As fate would have it， Dr. Gullickson very deliberately matched everyone in class and announced that I would be working with the one person in class I wanted to avoid.
