Quote of the Day (Halloween)

“You should dress up as Mr. Lau for Halloween.” - Suggestion from a high school student who revels in the fact that people mistake me for her favorite teacher. She continued, “And he can dress up as you!” (1/31/18)

Quote of the Day (fake)

Student: “Mister, [friend’s name] asked me if that was your real voice.”
Me: “And what did you say?”
Student: “I said that it’s been like that for the whole year. You know what she said?”
Me: “No, what did she say?”
Student: “She said it sounded fake.” (1/30/18)

Quote of the Day (doppelgänger)

Student 1: “Mister, when I tried to type in your email address, it said you didn’t exist.”
Me: “I didn’t exist or my email address didn’t exist?”
Student 2: “What!? Mister is fake? Maybe you have a ‘dope-ganger’. Is that what they call it?”
Student 1: “I think you mean a ‘doppel-gangster’.”
Me: “Doppelgänger?”
Student 1: “Yeah! See, I was right.”
(1/29/18)

Quote of the Day (sickness)

Student 1 [entering the class]: “Mister, I almost didn’t come to class today.”
Student 2: “Oh, you got that Sixth Period Sickness?” (1/26/18)

Quote of the Day (license)

“Oh, Mr. Hwang, you’d better watch out now.” - A threat from a smiling student just before class started. He continued, “I got my license yesterday.” (1/15/18)

Quote of the Day (name)

Student 1: “Mr. Lau, look! I got it right.”
Student 2 [with a stunned look on her face]: “What did you just call him?”
Student 1: “No, I mean, Mr. Hwang!”
Student 2: “He just told us about how people confuse him for Mr. Lau.”
Student 1: “Mr. Hwang, I’m sorry. You know I would never do that on purpose.” (1/24/18)

Quote of the Day (help)

”YES! I got to help someone with math today.” - Exclamation in the middle of a lesson from a student who typically struggles in class. Towards the end of the period, the student that he had helped complained, “I did so bad in class today. I even needed help from [student’s name]; that’s how bad it was.” (1/23/18)

Quote of the Day (vegan)

Student 1: “Did you know you can eat Oreos even if you’re vegan?”
Student 2: “Wait!? Are you vegan?”
Student 1: “No! I’m not a vegan; I’m a Samoan!” (1/18/18)

Quote of the Day (eyebrows)

“It hurt so bad; I was crying my eyebrows out.” - Statement from a high school senior. Upon saying this, she saw the baffled look on my face and continued, “Eyeballs, eyebrows same thing.” (1/19/18)

Quote of the Day (Flintstones)

“They look like the wheels on those cars from the Flintstones.” - Comment from a high school student upon looking at his graphs of circles. (1/18/18)

Quote of the Day (voice)

Student 1: "Are you ever going to get your voice back?

Student 2: "Yeah. We don't even know what your real voice sounds like."

Student 1 [in a really gravelly low voice]: "Hi. Welcome to Trigonometry." (11/2/17)

Quote of the Day (ballistic)

Me: “How was your weekend? How was it with that false alarm?”
Student: “Yeah, so it was pretty crazy. As soon as we got that notification, my parents were going ballistic.”
Me: “Wait, was that a pun?”
Student: “Huh?”
(1/16/18)

Quote of the Day (present)

“You’re still here?” - Question from a high school student to his friend as he entered the classroom. His friend bragged that he was switching out of class yesterday. (1/12/18)

Quote of the Day (new year)

Student [between labored breaths from climbing the stairs to my class]: “New year, same old stairs.” (1/11/18)