Mark Shroyer

Mark Shroyer is a physics professor. It is is second year teaching here.

Big Show

Shroyer, during a particularly vulnerable moment with his PHYS 313 class, told a sorrowful tale involving his childhood interactions with his younger brother. In his youth, Prof. Shroyer was somewhat of a would-be model rocket enthusiast, and so, one sunny day, he and his brother went out to a field, rockets in hand. Having meticulously set up the rocket on its wire launch pad, Shroyer pressed the electric ignition button only to have nothing happen. After some hours of failure, his brother just kept repeating to him, "Big show, Mark, big show."

Word of this story quickly spread beyond the 313 class and since then whenever he makes a particularly gruesome mistake, one can hear a soft "big show" from one of the students, which instantly catches his attention, hence forcing him to tell the story again, thus perpetuating the cycle.