Probability anyone?

I'm taking a probability class this session at university (my very first ^^) which is ridiculously easy. Reason for this is probably because I've taken a similar class in college. Also, the majority of the class is not in any math program. In fact, most students are computer science majors. Apparently, many programs require the completion of this course because and I quote the teacher: "probability is used in nearly every field and is useful in decision making". The first week of class, we (140 students!) discussed what probability meant and how it was used in the different fields of study. The teacher who strives for our participation put up a contest to win a swiss chocolate bar. Those who wished to participate had to post a comment on the class forum implicating anyone considered a founder of probability. Some chose to post a comment on a founder of probability of the same ethnic background as themselves while others made very confusing comments involving equations for some reason... It mostly sounded like a lot of copy/pasting haha
You are probably wondering if I participated in the "contest"... As much as I love chocolate and contests, I did not participate. I hmm concluded that the chances of me winning the contest were quite low... haha. Had I thought that at the time of the contest, it would have been an intelligent comment, but no...
I did not participate because 1) I didn't think anyone would, 2) I'm trying not to get a pizza face and thus stop my choco-addiction, 3) there is no third reason, i just like having 3 reasons, looks more convincing :P
Moreover, the teacher talks really low and its hard to hear him in such a huge classroom. Students have asked him to speak up on many occasion or use a microphone, but he brushed off the demands saying that the wires prevent him to move around which he does a lot I might add. Therefore, it is hard to pay attention and I am easily distracted. And so, the fact that he was giving out SWISS CHOCOLATE as a prize for the contest was not clear to the probability 1 to me. I mean, who would give away chocolate? Teachers normally give away bonus points anyways :P
I might sound like I don't like the teacher and I'll have to give in and say yes I don't because of his habit of promoting atheism. He goes as far as giving blasphemous examples. Students have complained to him about it, asking to use another example but he replies that the problem is set up that way and that he was not claiming anything to upset anyone. However, he did say that he had set out the probability of the event :S I don't want to explain the example furthermore, but that summarizes it.
Ohh and for the last 2 weeks, he has been asking us to calculate the probability of the event that at least two people in the classroom share the same birthday. Since we had completed a similar problem in an assignment, we knew that 23 people needed to be in a room for the probability that at least 2 have the same birthday be ~0.50. Therefore, the probability in this classroom should be quite close to 1! And we actually put the problem to the test. We were asked to write our name and birth date on a piece of paper and give it in to the teacher. The next week, the teacher started the lecture holding out a sheet of paper with a list of names scribbled down. Turns out around 10 pair of people share the same birthday and a trio too!
A certain "Melissa" shared the same birthday as me(1st march), I remember because I was asked to stand up and nodded at "Melissa" in greetings. She looked about the same age as me, pretty neat :) My friend also shared her birthday with another fellow classmate. She hates the class, but pays more attention to it than I do haha.
At the end of the class, the teacher took out a box of small swiss chocolate wraps and asked those who shared the same birthday to come up and get their reward. I found it unfair that the others couldn't get a chocolate piece because no one matched their birthday :( Sadly, I had to run up a hill to get to a class in 10minutes, so didn't get my hard earned chocolate.... hehe
I have a feeling this post is more about chocolate than probability :P
-The End- (for now...)