grr.

[wisdomeagle]

Dear math students,
Please do not come to math tutoring drunk.

Please do not insult the math tutors. Please note that most math tutors find the insinuation that they are boring nerds who do nothing but study all the time insulting.

Most math students probably don't want to be accountants.

If you want to pass math, that's wonderful. Please come to math tutoring with the intent of studying math, as that is likely to help you achieve your goal of a passing grade. Coming to tutoring drunk with the intent of getting me to fill out a progress report so your professor will "know you've been trying" is unlikely to help you pass.

Please. Do not come to math tutoring drunk.

No love,
Ari

In that spirit: bad math pun of the week: "52 cards = 1 dekacards" Hee.

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oy vey.

::hugs::

[wisdomeagle]

*hugs*

See what you saved me from that one night?

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Lo i am a force for good in your world -- or, um, something.

[that_mireille]

Oh god. This is so, so true (I've tutored math and computer science both, and yes, I know the feeling). *smacks the students*

However, the bad pun amused me greatly. *shares with combinatorics prof*

[wisdomeagle]

Yay! *shares dorkiness*

[that_mireille]

Also, that pun just showed up with many of its friends on math_jokes: http://www.livejournal.com/community/math_jokes/13344.html

[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

Spider Robinson wrote my favorite math pun into one of his Callahan's novels. "Oh Lord, send me a sign. Will my paycheck be cosigned, or am I off on a tangent?"

HEE!

[wisdomeagle]

Hee. *cracks up*

[cheese-munkey.livejournal.com]

*drive-by Spider Robinson love* Which Callahan is it in? I only have the first two, and haven't read them for a while... T_T

[cheese-munkey.livejournal.com]

reeeeee keeeeeel them all. XD then you could weed out most of the stupid ones before they get up the hill to the post office, maybe... XD

(sooo sorry you had to deal with that. blech.)

[humanyouth.livejournal.com]

woooowwww so that happened, huh?

Will you tell me who it was?? huh? huhh??

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

i hated tutoring stats for that reason, students were taking it for the credit to graduate, and had NO math sense whatsoever, and believed the calculator at every instance (even when they did serious keying errors that rendered the answers WELL beyond the scope of reality, they STILL believed the calculator screen!)
bb - BSc in Math :)

[wisdomeagle]

Grr. Over-trust of the calculator drives me NUTS. People! Learn to think logically. Distance is not negative. When a ball is on the ground, the height is zero. These are not hard concepts. Oh. my. god.

Only two more nights of tutoring... ever!

[rosesandrue.livejournal.com]

I like the angry icon. I agree completely- that night was bizarre.

I will never be an accountant.

and I like your stargate fanfic. I don't know if zoe told you but freshman year I watched it all the time with her.

[wisdomeagle]

Hee. ph34r my angry icon. :p

Yay Eddie Izzard!

And yeah, I know you watched SG-1 with her, because you used to watch it in my room. Which you might not remember, since I was on the opposite side of the room from the 'gate and mostly tried to pretend it didn't exist...

Glad you like my fic. Glad, and a little scared. :p