Read my lips

Would have been a super gloomy day what with pouring rain, freezing wind and mid-quarter blues, but i guess it was all worth it given what came next.

A beautiful rainbow that lit up the rain-kissed sky just before the sun went down.

An old student dropped by to pay respect to the old professorette (i have been teaching for almost 9 years now!!!) and brought me yummy goodies...mmm ...it was all good, but i liked the card better. It was a long letter of a card but the part i liked most was where he mentioned how my class gave him a solid prep for his MS studies, MMM...mais oui! C'est moi. I don't care if the majority flunk or cry murder on evaluations (some of them are downright funny though, e.g., a MS student complaining about having to study theories and proofs), i would never be the one to apologize for my standards. Math is an elite subject, and so it shall be treated. Make it work, or avidazen!

A PT faculty confided in me today that only 2 people in her 30+ class passed the mid-term which by the way she thought was ridiculously easy. Sigh, i wonder how many she will pass eventually, she has to get good evals to get her contract renewed. Ah, bloated grades, here we come! tsk-tsk, if this is not blackmail then what is?

Hmm, guess i am just irked by some students' low expectations of themselves, er, not to mention low abilities combined with consumer mentality toward knowledge. Keep it up and the next century will be in the hands of the up and coming non-US countries.

C'est quoi que je dit, ah oui, lisez-vous ma bouche!