Nov 5, 2018
“This is your last warning.” That is a line I heard a lot last night while watching The Walking Dead. Of course, it never really was the last warning, because they kept repeating it for every situation. As the semester goes into its 11th week, I was thinking about...
Oct 29, 2018
In the movie Peggy-Sue Got Married, Peggy-Sue went back in time to her high-school days. One of the memorable scenes is when she met her high-school math teacher. She stated that she knew, for a fact, that she would never need to use math again in her life, so his...
Oct 20, 2018
A student mentioned the other day that he had learned more in the last 8 weeks of class than he learned in all of high school. I am not sure how active he was in his high school classes, but I never saw him doing homework outside of the classroom. He also said that...
Nov 14, 2016
The semester is winding down and the panic is setting in. There seems to be the immediate need to catch-up with the material. I was asked today if we are going to review all the stuff we learned in the semester. There was a disconnect in viewing the current...
Nov 9, 2016
Jesus wept. When I was in college, we ate our meals family-style. At the beginning of the meal, the senior class and freshman class would have a competition of trivia. We had to think of a question that would stump the other class. Usually there was some wager,...
