factors of immaturity

After a long day at the office, Mondays and Wednesdays, I head over to the high school where I am now teaching Calculus. I only have two students so it’s not such a huge shocker to the system; seeing as how I have never taught high school before. It’s definitely a bit different, but still pretty fun. At least I am interacting with humans not of the office race.

A funny thing happened during class on Monday. I was writing an ever so exciting note on the board explaining how to do long division of polynomials when my students started giggling. I asked if I was missing something. The one kid goes “look how you wrote ‘factor’”.

In my defence, I was stretching across the board, I have writing like a six year old and I was a little tired after a long day at the office. All of these factors (pun intended) contributed to the transformation of the word factor. I clearly wrote ‘fucker’. They are pretty similar words so its not really shocking; just pretty immature. I laughed with them and I think we bonded.