Introduction
Because Jeremy is very passionate about puns, he likes to keep track of the best one his students have made,
If you are eligible for the current semester pun leaderboard or hoping to keep your place on the global pun leaderboard, check back here for updates!
Below, you can find the respective pun leaderboards for each semester and the global pun leaderboard/best of all time:
Global Pun Leaderboard
Mahmood Munasar | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 | "ExSKEWse me for being mean but I don't think we can meet in the middle" and "Trying to be more alpha only increases your chances of being rejected" (Midterm 1 had questions about skeweness of distributions, Midterm 2 has many hypothesis testing questions)
Jacqueline Miller | Spring 2026 | EPIB395 | "Why is the graph shifted so far left?" "Well, the graph is pretty liberal" (related to R visualizations)
John Wiggins | Fall 2025 | EPIB652 | "There's more than one way to skin a categorical variable" (Class is categorical data analysis)
Khue Le | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 | "What is a camel's favorite book character? Humpty Dumpty (the egg)" (The exam had a question about camels)
Iris Zhang | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 TA | "We just gotta track em down" (referring to a student who competes in track and field)
Changwen Ding | Spring 2026 | EPIB695 | "Guess your pun wasn't up to par" (current slide/class discussion about the par function)
Jordan Best | Fall 2025 | EPIB697 | "Macroeconomics" (lecture was on SAS macros)
Changwen Ding | Fall 2025 | EPIB 697 | "So you just added it for the love of the game?" (data referenced was related to games)
Mariana Rosenstiel | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 | What do you see when you look into space? A NOVA (test had ANOVA questions)
Nini Gamu | Fall 2025 | EPIB697 | "Take a peak at our presentation" (Midterm team name was PEAK performers, named after a respiratory flow term)
Pun Leaderboard for Summer 2026
Hasmin Ramirez-Villegas | Summer 2026 | EPIB697 | "Hopefully something catastrophic didn’t happened to them." (coding example was about cats and some numbered cats were missing)
Hasmin Ramirez-Villegas | Summer 2026 | EPIB697 | "We’re all just winging it right now with these plots." (coding example was about bird wingspan)
Pun Leaderboard for Spring 2026
Mahmood Munasar | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 | "ExSKEWse me for being mean but I don't think we can meet in the middle" and "Trying to be more alpha only increases your chances of being rejected" (Midterm 1 had questions about skeweness of distributions, Midterm 2 has many hypothesis testing questions)
Jacqueline Miller | Spring 2026 | EPIB395 | "Why is the graph shifted so far left?" "Well, the graph is pretty liberal" (related to R visualizations)
Khue Le | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 | "What is a camel's favorite book character? Humpty Dumpty (the egg)" (The exam had a question about camels)
Iris Zhang | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 TA | "We just gotta track em down" (referring to a student who competes in track and field)
Changwen Ding | Spring 2026 | EPIB695 | "Guess your pun wasn't up to par" (current slide/class discussion about the par function)
Mariana Rosenstiel | Spring 2026 | EPIB315 | What do you see when you look into space? A NOVA (test had ANOVA questions)
Pun Leaderboard for Fall 2025
John Wiggins | Fall 2025 | EPIB652 | "There's more than one way to skin a categorical variable" (Class is categorical data analysis)
Changwen Ding | Fall 2025 | EPIB 697 | "So you just added it for the love of the game?" (data referenced was related to games)
Jordan Best | Fall 2025 | EPIB697 | "macroeconomics" (lecture was on SAS macros)
Nini Gamu | Fall 2025 | EPIB697 | "Take a peak at our presentation" (Midterm team name was PEAK performers, named after a respiratory flow term)