Kubsie's Korner
Math Orientation Songs

This page is a bunch of Orientation songs sung by the Faculty of Mathematics during Frosh Week. For anyone who would like more information about Math Orientation or Frosh Week at UW you can visit their webpage.

Pink Tie Guard War Cry
One group asks the question, the other group answers.

Question:	How's the Tie?	Answer:	Still there, still Pink!
	Why oh why		Are we asked to think?
	But we'll survive		Never ever gonna sink!
	Thirty feet high		Still there, still Pink!

Math Rocks!
This song is sung by two groups.

Part 1: Keep singing it over and over...	Part 2: Jump in after Part 1 finishes and then everyone sings until the end of Part 2's chorus. Everyone should end on Math Rocks!
M - A M - A - T M - A - T - H Math Rocks! M - A M - A - T M - A - T - H Math Rocks!	Say it loud Say it big Let it boil in your blood Fell it zag as you zig We survive All the knocks We have pride when we cheer And we think Math Rocks!

Words of Wisdom

Ra ra ra ree
Math will kick you in the knee
Ra ra ra rass
Math will kick you in the...other knee

Marching Call
(I don't know but I've been told)

Call:	Sine sine cosine sine
Response:	Three-point-One-Four-One-Five-Nine

You're in the Army Now!

We are Mathies, we're so cool!
We are Mathies, we just rule.
Mathies! (We're cool)
Mathies! (We rule)
Mathies! We're cool, we rule.
MATH ROCKS!

The Angus Reid Theme Song
(Tune: Cecilia)

Chorus:
Statistics,
You're breaking my heart,
You're shaking my average daily!
Oh, Professor,
I'm down on my knees,
I'm beggin' you please to slow down,
Please slow down!

Writing proofs in the afternoon in Statistics,
Up in my bedroom, (Writing Proofs!)
I got up to vent my rage,
When I got back to stats,
Someone's ripped out my page!

--Chorus--

I wrote my final, I'm happy again,
I cannot believe I was failing!
I wrote my final, I'm happy again!
I've passed my statistics, maybe!

--Chorus--

The Biggest Tie
(Tune: The Littlest Worm)

The biggest tie
I ever saw
Was hanging from
The MC wall

I looked at it
And then I knew
I wanted to be
A Mathie, too

I earned my tie
It made me laugh
Because it's true
That I love Math

And so began
My new journey
To be part of
Math faculty

My school is sweet
SWEET LIKE A FOX!
Because I know
UW Math rocks

Row Row Row Reduce
(Tune: Row Row Row Your Boat)

Row, row, row, reduce
Madly down the page
One mistake, and you'll be baked
Check at every stage!

Down By The Sine
(Tune: Down By The Bay)

Chorus:
Down by the sine, where the power series grow
Back to my class, I dare not go
For if I do, my prof would whine...

Have you ever seen a differentiable, invertible & bounded function,
Whose A=>R inverse and it have no junction,
Down by the sine?

--Chorus--

Have you ever seen a one to one mapping,
Taking Z to R without stopping,
Down by the sine?

--Chorus--

Have you ever seen a set up natural number things,
With an additive inverse just like a ring,
Down by the sine?

--Chorus--

Waterloo Yell

Call:	Water Water Water
Response:	Loo Loo Loo

H 2 O

H 2 O
L O 2
Math, it rocks
At Waterloo!

The Mathie Song

We're Waterloo Mathies
We're far from our home
And if you don't like us
Then leave us alone

We go for high fashion
Our ties are all pink
Our profs are all boring
And that's why we drink

We drink when we're thirsty
We drink when we're dry
And if you don't like us
Then go home and cry

Go home and cry
Go home and cry
And if you don't like us
Then go home and cry

A Calculus Song
(Tune: American Pie)

A long, long time ago, I can still remember
the way that math class used to make me cry.
But I knew if I got my chance
I could make those numbers dance,
and maybe I'd be happy for a while.

The Unofficial Waterloo Theme Song
This one is definitely not sung anymore...it doesn't support inter-university relations.

Waterloo, Waterloo
Dum de dum dum dum
Waterloo, Waterloo
Dum de dum dum dum
We dum de dum dum dee
We dum de dum dum da
Waterloo, Waterloo Waterloo

Laurier, Laurier
Pffft to Laurier
U of T, U of T
Pffft to U of T
We pffft to Brock and Guelph
We pffft to York and Mac
Western U, Windor too, pffft to you!
And Lakehead!

The next two songs were written by Brian Fox and Chad Ternent during Orientation 1996. Their job that year was to drive the cargo van to wherever it was needed...and it was always needed! They were under appreciated and sometimes the van went missing...

They were the Teamsters...

Have you seen the Cargo Van?
(Tune: The Muffin Man)

Have you seen the cargo van?
The cargo van? The cargo van!
Have you seen the cargo van?
Of course not! It's not there!

Have you seen the teamster man?
The teamster man? The teamster man!
Have you seen the teamster man?
The teamster man sees you!

Teamster man, teamster man
Does whatever a teamster can.
Gets the stuff, right away
Just in time, to save the day!
Look out! Here comes the teamster man.

In the heat of the night
At the scene of the fire
He arrives just in time
With the stuff from Canadian Tire!

Teamster man, teamster man
Friendly neighbourhood teamster man.
Treat him well, treat him right
Or you'll be sleeping with the fish tonight!
Hi ho! Here comes the teamster man!