hey cannabis, i m not going to University of Minnesota but ya i was in micro biology group. i was wrong yesterday, i graduated in 2000 (the first batch). i was part of that marathon episode and may be the student from balaju who had experienced that stuff most closely. let me guess, are you from kuleswor? ashish, you have mentioned about the quiz competition but do you remember the quiz master, the same guy who scored half century in the first cricket match between balaju and tripureswor. and ya, that chess guy is a close friend of mine and he had told me about that experience later, as i was not there that day.