My IH0052 Instructor conducts classes by primarily asking questions AKA the Socratic Method.  As the Faulknerian Idiot Man Children in our class seemed incapable of answering without simply restating the question and I get rather bored showing my greater breadth of knowledge in all things animal, vegetable and mineral, I I asked him if he planned on doing so the entire semester. to which he responded “what is the Socratic Method?”  I nearly committed my first hate crime.

This post may not seem funny to most people, but if you’ve ever seen me bludgeon Dan DiSalvo, Kenny Moritz, or any one at OSR that uses the Socratic Method you’d know the approximate wattage of the beams of rage coming from my eyes at my teacher’s response could have lit candles at a distance or melted steel.

Act Sci 305 was moved to a different class to get a larger chalkboard and I immediately voiced my concerns as the previous class had lab benches were these desks properly sized for 12 year olds.
Mrs. A: Do you really like the other class better?
Me: Yes, there was enough room to have two books and a calculator on every desk.
Mrs. A: But the board’s smaller and everyone’s further away.
Me: But the speakers in here sound like the Queen Mary’s fog horn if you walk by the transmitter.
Mrs. A: Who likes the other room better?
*Everyone over 6′ or 200lbs raises their hands*
Mrs. A: Okay, I’ll think about it.
Me: But, the other class is so much better.
Mrs. A: Okay, now the region of death for a…
Me: The other class is amazing! Everyone fits.
Mrs. A: *Death stare* newborn of age zero is charted by…
Me: The other class is the Elysian Fields of Temple.  As you enter, you are greated by Calliope, Muse of Song, and Tersichord dances in the back as Urania whispers sacred knowledge into one’s ears under the auspices of Pallas Athena and…
Mrs. A: Alright, we’ll go back to the other class.
Me: Thank you.

Act Sci 305 was moved to a different class to get a larger chalkboard and I immediately voiced my concerns as the previous class had lab benches were these desks properly sized for 12 year olds.
Mrs. A: Do you really like the other class better?
Me: Yes, there was enough room to have two books and a calculator on every desk.
Mrs. A: But the board’s smaller and everyone’s further away.
Me: But the speakers in here sound like the Queen Mary’s fog horn if you walk by the transmitter.
Mrs. A: Who likes the other room better?
*Everyone over 6′ or 200lbs raises their hands*
Mrs. A: Okay, I’ll think about it.
Me: But, the other class is so much better.
Mrs. A: Okay, now the region of death for a…
Me: The other class is amazing! Everyone fits.
Mrs. A: *Death stare* newborn of age zero is charted by…
Me: The other class is the Elysian Fields of Temple.  As you enter, you are greated by Calliope, Muse of Song, and Tersichord dances in the back as Urania whispers sacred knowledge into one’s ears under the auspices of Pallas Athena and…
Mrs. A: Alright, we’ll go back to the other class.
Me: Thank you.

In taking Stat 212 I anticipated a leg up in that I already understood how the teacher worked.  I asked him tongue-in-cheek if he’d changed the quizzes from the previous semester and he replied he did.  Indeed he did, the questions were in a completely different order from the previous semester.  Identical numbers and functions, but apparently, changing the order is sufficient to throw off people.

Some Faulknerian Idiot Manchild was humming Petula Clark’s Downtown on the train and it got stuck in my head. This is what the day wound up sounding like.
MSOM 105: “Using the distance formula will not minimize distances in most factories” “Downtown”
IH 0051: “The goal of Jnana Yoga is the worship the godhead” “Downtown”
ACT 0002: “If you guys don’t start participating I’m going to ask you to go” “Downtown”
SOC 0062: “Examples of racial discrimination can still be found in many of American’s institutions” “Downtown”
STAT 212: “When calculating the value of some sample space with an unknown variance, the Tschybechev Inequality can give you an upper board to the standard deviation assuming a small number epsilon””Downtown.”

Yeah, I know, that last one didn’t work at all but it’s fucking Stat 212. It’s like the alphabet and the number line had sex and they taped it.