Student response: "Things were supposed to go well but Gatsby almost ruined it by being a weird little freak"
And you know what, that's a valid analysis.
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“Passend zu seinen blauen Augen trägt er eine blaue Jogginghose.”
“Matching his blue eyes, he’s wearing blue sweatpants.”
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I love that feeling when STEM geeks chat about absolutely anything. We use random math or science lingo for absolutely anything.
"Just take an absolute value of my passion for these characters"
*Debating how to do optimization when it comes to plotting your walking route and what variables to prioritize*
On finding a career that fits really well when the one you're in isn't quite right: "you just need to start some small perturbations" "yeah perturb yourself"
Something something mean median mode
"It's like crossing the event horizon, you just get sucked into this experience and there's no escape"
Pretty niche: "Rather than be a 'T-shaped' person with depth in one area of expertise and breadth across some other areas, I was thinking why not be a person shaped like the gravitational potential of our solar system: big depth in one central area, with a 3d "T-bar" that goes out and has numerous additional divots of depth."
The classic: comparing something to superposition or wave-particle duality (have you guessed I'm a physics gal yet?)
"It's kind of like, I have the code for the task but my internal compiler just isn't running for some reason"
Please add more if you have any fun examples of using STEM lingo out of context or to communicate something only tangentially related! (I live for this stuff)
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Travis: MRS. PACKERTON, LARRY WIPED A MYSTERIOUS RED LIQUID ON ME.
Larry: It's blood.
Travis, after a five second pause of pure shock: M R S. P A C K E R T O N, DO I HAVE PERMISSION TO KICK LARRY IN THE SHINS?
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You smell like a philosopher
-ninth grader in the cafeteria
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LEGITIMATELY
had a student ask me if I knew the lorax movie
Me: uh yes?
Student: no like THE NEW lorax movie, with the onceler
Me: new??? It came out in 2012!! it's MY MOVIE! I was YOU when that came OUT!!
Student: so yeah this cool movie called the lorax is super popular on tiktok rn
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"Oh, so this is a game about unhinged capitalism?"
Source: My student, 5 minutes into his first ever game of Monopoly
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Respect your parents. They passed school without google.
https://statustan.com/quotes/body-afa9cac6-120d-43e8-865c-c4e4a1459d3b
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this quote from ovid’s telling of orpheus turning back to look at eurydice makes me crumble
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Student essay; "Throughout the hundred of thousands of years modern humans existed,"
Hmmmm....
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"Yo, Zeus is like my dad. He screws everyone he can get ahold of." -- Larry Johnson, age 16 having finally come to terms with his dad not coming back.
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Teens don't say how are you, they are all dead inside
-"Flora" writeing a dialog in German class
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