Who was my favorite student this term?

There was the one who refused to follow instructions and then peppered me and the TA with panicked emails when he couldn't get things to work.  There was the one who sat in the front row with his finger up his nose.  There was the one I only saw twice, on exam days.  There was the one who came to every class, always prepared, but who spectacularly failed every exam.  There was the one who insisted on telling me when she was on her period.  There was the one who missed an exam and then insisted that I or the TA had lost it.  There was the one who came in with a black eye because he got into a brawl.  There was the one who wasn't going to vote because, "the system is rigged against conservatives."

Well, it was none of these.