Quote of the Day (research)

"I was doing some research on that last night." - Comment from a high school student in the middle of class. I was disappointed to find out the thing she had been researching was the black/blue vs white/gold dress debate. (2/27/15)

Quote of the Day (driving)

"Mister, I could've sworn I saw you and Mr. Lau in the same car driving around by my house." - Slightly racist comment from a student who probably just saw two random Asian guys driving around in Laie. (2/26/15)

Quote of the Day (Coldplay)

"Wow! The words are so relevant to this class." - Comment from a high school student who had been humming Coldplay's "Fix You" during class. The words she was referring to were "When you try your best, but you don't succeed...But if you never try you'll never know" I guess she forgot about the other line that's applicable to math,"And the tears come streaming down your face." (2/25/15)

Quote of the Day (hate)

"Miss hates me." - Comment from a former student after I asked her how she was liking her new teacher after a crazy mid-year switch. When I asked why she would say such a thing, she replied, "Because, she doesn't share her food with me." (2/24/15)

Quote of the Day (chemistry)

"Mister, what do they do with a dead chemist?" - Question asked to me during class by a high school student who couldn't stop giggling before he told me the answer. (2/23/15)

Quote of the Day (hot dogs)

"That's sounds like fun. We only had to work with problems from the book about stuff like the length of hot dogs." - Comment from a high school student who took AP Statistics last year and overheard my conversation with a current stats student about the gathering of real data for our projects. (2/19/15)

Quote of the Day (work)

"Wow. He puts a lot of work into this class." - Comment from a high school student to her peer after I showed my students a small app(?) I made to help them sift through the cryptic ambiguous cases of the law of sines. (2/18/15)

Quote of the Day (hungry)

"I'm HUNGRY!" - Cranky exclamation from a student that caught me off guard after I asked her if she was OK because she seemed confused by the lesson. To her credit, she composed herself and apologized. (2/17/15)

Quote of the Day (Great Aloha Run)

Student 1: "Mister, the Great Aloha Run is on Monday, right?"
Me: "Yes."
Student 1: "...Is that why we don't have school that day?" (2/13/15)

Quote of the Day (Valentine)

"Is that what you do for your wife?" - Question from a high school student after she watched me show her classmate a website that combined math with Valentine's Day. (2/13/15)

Quote of the Day (button)

"Mister! You're so mean!" - Opening comment from a student as he entered the classroom. When I asked him why, he sighed and said, "You know that button on your website that says 'click here for nothing to happen'? I must've clicked it 20 times last night and nothing happened. Is there some kind of trick to it? What does it do?" (2/11/15)

Quote of the Day (understanding)

"YES! I get math now!" - Exclamation from a high school student in the middle of class. (2/11/15)

Quote of the Day (clock)

"I thought it was just a frickin clock!!" - Comment from a frustrated high school student after she was apparently the last one to find out the difference between analogue and digital clocks. (2/10/15)

Quote of the Day (hike)

Student 1: "Why don't we go on any field trips?"
Student 2: "Yeah, Mister, can we go on a field trip?"
Me: "Let's go climb a mountain so we can measure its elevation."
Student 1: "I'd be so down for that."
Student 3 [entering the classroom]: "Mister! Do you remember that time you said you would write a letter requesting an escalator for us?" (2/9/15)

Quote of the Day (website)

"I can't! Why'd you have to make your website so fun?" - Comment from a high school student who only just discovered my class website today. He was enthralled by the button on my welcome screen that reads "Click here for nothing to happen". (2/5/15)

Quote of the Day (Boise)

"I used to think that Boise was a state." - Comment from a high school student during a side conversation about colleges. (2/4/15)

Quote of the Day (mix up)

"You have no idea how mad I am at myself for doing that." - Comment from a high school student after I feigned anger at him for calling me by another teacher's name. He claimed he had tried so hard not to mix us up for over a month. (2/3/15)

Quote of the Day (cruise)

"Because I made up my mind that as much as I'd like to, I'm not going to cruise in my senior year." - Comment from a high school junior after he asked me if I would be teaching the same classes next year. (2/2/15)

Quote of the Day (optimism)

"Is that why they're called 'opthimists', because they always see the positive side of things?" - Honest question from a high school student after learning what an opthamologist was. (1/30/15)

Quote of the Day (dubstep)

"She really loves dubstep." - The things I learn about my coworkers through my students. (1/28/15)