About ten seconds into today’s lesson:1
Student #1: Have you ever taught ESL?2
Me: What?? No…
Student #1: You’d be good at it.
Me: Why?!…
Student #1: You’re very patient.
Me: Oh… okay. [insert slight pensive pause] Actually… I’m really not; I just act like it in front of you guys…
Student #2:3 So when you go home do you just let it all out and “rraaAAWWwwrrr”4 and like, chop wood? 5
Me: [looking dumbfounded and possessing no idea where to go with that]… okay so, the null and alternative hypothesis for this problem… … …
Me: What?? No…
Student #1: You’d be good at it.
Me: Why?!…
Student #1: You’re very patient.
Me: Oh… okay. [insert slight pensive pause] Actually… I’m really not; I just act like it in front of you guys…
Student #2:3 So when you go home do you just let it all out and “rraaAAWWwwrrr”4 and like, chop wood? 5
Me: [looking dumbfounded and possessing no idea where to go with that]… okay so, the null and alternative hypothesis for this problem… … …
I am filing this one under “Can’t make this stuff up.” 6
For the ninth time in my teaching life7 I was reminded how brutal it is the first couple of days back from Spring Break.
I mean, brutalbrutalbrutal!.8
Perhaps I found my footing sometime today9 but good night, could we please make Spring Break two weeks long?!
- which was the M&M’s Chi-squared goodness-of-fit lesson [↩]
- ESL: English as a Second Language. Not sure we really call it that anymore… [↩]
- This particular character is a fast-talker, for context. If you watch “Scandal”, picture highly caffeinated Quinn Perkins. [↩]
- yes, this kid literally roared and waved her arms around in psycho karate fashion, to boot. [↩]
- WHAT. [↩]
- Yes, I created a new category of posts just for this one. [↩]
- This is my ninth year of teaching… [↩]
- Yes – there’s a factorial at the end of that last nested exponent! [↩]
- about the time the above “wood-chopping” conversation occurred — which, for the record, was during my 5th attempt of teaching the same class. -_- [↩]