When most people see him, they see nothing more than a pumpkin with a carved face. What most people who do see him do not know is that he hates this. He hates being known as just a jack o’lantern, especially when he has a name.
Lewis is the name of the jack o’lantern that has taken an unsuspecting residence at Stevens. He was a mere pumpkin harvested for the purpose of being sold in a supermarket. Subsequently, he ended up at the Trader Joe’s. He sat there waiting to be picked until one day a sad, frustrated college student with raccoon eyebags and a Stevens hoodie bought him. The Stevens student did not really know what they were doing when they randomly purchased a pumpkin, but it was in some way to cheer up.
The start of October meant that it was officially spooky season, but this Stevens student was in engineering and all October meant was a gruesome month of studying for midterms. They had worked long and hard, but alas, they were no match for the Differential Equations test. The test broke the Stevens student so much that they embarked on a long walk, eventually ending up at Trader Joe’s. The student had absolutely no Halloween spirit in them as they put all the fun aside to focus on the test, but now they wanted to get their mind off the test more than anything. This culminated in a pumpkin being bought; the pumpkin that would soon become Lewis.
The Stevens student brought the pumpkin to their apartment and carved it. They gave the carved pumpkin a name: Lewis. Lewis lived in the student’s apartment for a few days and got a gist of what led to the student creating him. Lewis learned about the horrors of DiffEq and vowed to take revenge on behalf of his creator since his creator gifted him both a name and a face.
Lewis started slowly making his way to the Stevens campus and eventually took residence within the DiffEq classroom. There it continued to overlook all the students and ensure that they would pass their exams given one condition: they knew him to be Lewis. Anyone who saw him and didn’t address him as Lewis would be doomed to fail. Therefore, if you see a pumpkin lurking in your DiffEq class, be kind to him and call him “Lewis.”
