Simon Rich, a former president of The Harvard Lampoon, will graduate from Harvard University in June of 2007. He has written for Mad magazine. When he is not writing, he likes to run, cook, and play music with his friends. In fourth grade, after struggling with arithmetic for four years, Simon received a calculator that could solve equations automatically. He still can’t believe that his teachers didn’t tell him about this machine earlier. He is extremely afraid of dogs, almost to the point where he can’t be around them. In general though, he considers himself a very positive person.