Fun fact: My elder brother was Armando's TA in TAMU. Armanda probably was the brightest and most fun guy to work with. There were extra credit for building a fully functional software CPU and its vector pipeline supporting VLIW (mid 90s duh). Your advisor guy did it in a breeze. The instructor privately confided to my brother he was a legend in the making.

Ask him about Sid in Lawrence Rawschberger's class for good old anecdotes! :)