Quote of the Day (Thanksgiving)

Student: “Wait! Thanksgiving Break is next week already?”

Me: “Yup. Thursday and Friday.”

Student: “Yes! I mean, oh no. Two whole days without math class!” (11/16/21)

Quote of the Day (epiphany)

Student [entering class]: “Mister, I had an epiphany yesterday.”

Me: “Oh?”

Student: “Can we petition the school to change something?”

Me: “You can always bring up suggestions, but I can’t change anything outside of what happens in my class.”

Student: “I think we should petition to change the school’s advisory period to ‘Nap Time’.” (11/15/21)

Quote of the Day (rice krispie treat)

Me [to Student 1 who was staring at the back of his rice krispie treat]: "Are you really just reading the ingredients instead of doing your work?"

Student 1: "Huh? Yeah. Mister, what do you think is the main ingredient?"

Me: "Uh...rice?" 

Student 2 [who is now distracted from doing his work]: "Really? I would've thought it was something else."

Me: "Like what?"

Student 2: "I don't know. Maybe sugar?" (11/10/21)

Quote of the Day (morning stairs)

Student [out of breath after climbing the stairs for the first class of the day]: "Ugh. I don't like those stairs in the morning."

Me: "In the morning? So they're not bad at other times in the day?"

Student: "Yeah. Sometimes they're not too bad."

Me: "Like when?"

Student: "A little later in the day, but not after lunch...because after lunch, UGH! I'm so tired." (11/10/21)

Quote of the Day (Interview)

Student [handing me a slip of paper as the class was cleaning up with a minute left in the period]: "Mister, can you read this and write your answers to these questions?"

Me: "Umm... by when?"

Student: "Right now. It's due next period." (11/9/21)

Quote of the Day (minister)

 "Mister! I just typed 'ministerhwang' instead of 'misterhwang' to get to your website." - Comment from a high school student who was trying to get to his work on my website. (11/8/21)

Quote of the Day (tired)

 Student: "I am so tired."

Me: "You say that almost every day."

Student: "Yeah, but I feel even more tired today."

Me: "What did you do to make you so tired?"

Student: "Honestly, I think it's because I went to bed early last night."

Me: "..."

Student: "I think I might have slept too much and that's why I'm tired." (11/5/21)

Quote of the Day (quote)

Student 1 [observing Student 2 conspiring with me to make a meme]: "I wish I was cool enough to make a meme."

Me [pointing to the board]: "Don't feel bad. You are one of the few students to get a quote on the board."

Student 1: "Oh yeah, you're right. I forgot about my quote."

Student 2: "I want a quote on the board!"

Student 2 kept saying random things throughout the rest of the class in an effort to get something she said written on the board with Student 1's quote. (11/4/21)

Quote of the Day (scream)

 Student 1 [pointing to the 11 tally marks on the board]: "Mister, what's that for?"

Me: "Those marks? Oh, that's the number of times Student 2 [Student 1's friend] sighed really loudly in class the other day."

Student 1 [laughing]: "Yeah, she does that a lot."

...

Student 1: "You know what else she does? Every morning she lets out a loud scream."

Me: "Really? Like, at home or on the way to school?"

Student 1: "No, in front of A-building right before we go to class." (11/3/21)

Quote of the Day (hate)

Student: "I don't think they [another teacher] like me."

Me: "Why would you say that?"

Student: "Because I'm not getting a very good grade in their class."

Me: "Oh, then you must think I don't like you either."

Student: "Huh? Why would I think that?"

Me: "Because of your grade in this class." (11/2/21)

Quote of the Day (candy corn)

"Honestly, if all I got for Halloween was candy corn, I think I'd be happy with that." - Comment from a high school student after his peers discussed which candy they preferred the most. (10/29/21)

Quote of the Day (favorite)

 Student [in the middle of class]: "Mister, are we your favorite class?"

Me: "It's not relevant."

Student: "But we're your favorite, right?"

Me: "Ask me later."

Student [at the end of class]: "So Mister, which period is your favorite?"

Me: "Lunch." (10/28/21)

Quote of the Day (apocalypse)

 Student [entering the class]: "Mister, I had a dream about you the other day."

Me: "Uh oh."

Student [continues]: "Yeah, I dreamt you were gone and had a sub. And then there was a zombie apocalypse." (10/25/21)

Quote of the Day (rancher)

 Student 1: "Mister, you know who you remind me of when you teach?"

Me [genuinely confused]: "Who?"

Student 1: "So you know how you always go around to your students to see if they're OK...It reminds me of a rancher checking up on his cows."

Student 2 [who had been listening to our conversation]: "Mooo." (10/26/21)

Quote of the Day (transparent)

 Me [noticing Student 1's new hair color]: "Oh, you changed your hair color."

Student 1: "Mm hmm. Do you like it?"

Me: "It look nice."

Student 2: "Should I dye my hair that color too? Do you think it would look nice?"

Me: "Sure. I guess."

Student 3: I want to dye my hair now too. I want to dye my hair transparent." (10/25/21)

Quote of the Day (version)

Student 1 [talking with Student 2 and Student 3 after the test]: "Did you get two questions with no solution?"

Student 2: "No. Mine was on the front."

Student 3: "Yeah, mine was number three I think."

Student 1: "That's not fair!"

Student 1 [to me across the room]: "Hey Mister! That's not fair."

Me: "What's not fair?"

Student 1: "You gave me the harder version of the test."

Plot twist: I gave everyone the exact same version of the test. (10/22/21)

Quote of the Day (diarrhea)

Student 1 [overhearing my conversation with Student 3]: "Wait! What? There's a test today?"

Student 2 & Student 3: "[laughing] How could you not know there was a test today?" "Yeah, Mister's only been talking about it every day even before the break."

Student 1 [defensively]: "I guess I wasn't paying attention. I had a brain fart, OK?"

Student 2 shakes her head.

Student 3 [muttering in disbelief]: "More like brain diarrhea." (10/21/21)

Quote of the Day (square)

"I'm tired of doing stuff with triangles. I wish we could do stuff with squares. Let's do Square-gonometry." - Comment from a high school student in Trigonometry (which is by definition the branch of mathematics dealing with the relations of the sides and angles of triangles) (10/19/21)

Quote of the Day (butt chin)

Student 1: "Mister, Student 2 and I were just talking. Neither of us have ever seen you without your mask on."

Me: "Isn't that a good thing?"

Student 1: "Well, no. We don't know what you look like."

Student 2: "Yeah, I bet him that you were rocking a mustache under there."

Student 1: "I told him no. I bet that you have a butt chin. Can you just [motions to pull down my mask] so we can see who's right?"

Both students turned in incomplete assignments at the end of class. (10/19/21)

Quote of the Day (hate)

 Me [handing a progress report to Student]: “I graded your [late] exam. Here’s your current grade.”

Student [staring dejectedly at the progress report]: “It’s almost like you hate me or something.” (10/8/21)