#2213

1111

Sept. 28, 2010, 3:47 p.m.

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Student: Does Shirley have a college degree? Schafer: No, why? Student: Because he's sitting in your chair.

#2219

33

Sept. 28, 2010, 7:08 p.m.

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//about city-states Whitacre: Each and every one of these is considered the center of the universe.

#2221

1515

Sept. 28, 2010, 8:43 p.m.

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Student: [begins to answer another student's question] Schafer: Hey, I get paid a lot of money to do that! Schafer: Well, not a LOT of money...

#2226

66

Sept. 29, 2010, 2:38 p.m.

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Mr. Swaney: You know Pat Collins? So, Pat Collins calls me during sixth period and begins to interview me... But then he says "I have to go. There's been a shooting on U street," and hangs up.

#2230

1212

Sept. 29, 2010, 4:34 p.m.

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//a student is leaving the room Pham: Why you taking backpack?  The only reason you leave with the backpack is you go home or you go to Staw-buck.

#2235

1212

Sept. 30, 2010, 2:33 p.m.

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Anderson: Facebook! And other electronic means of shoving your heads up your butts!

#2236

2626

Sept. 30, 2010, 2:35 p.m.

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//Handing out leaflets for the USA Science and Engineering Festival Pham: For those of you who do not have a girlfriend, for those of you who do not have a boyfriend, this is what you're going to do on the 23rd!

#2249

2525

Oct. 2, 2010, 11:48 p.m.

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Stein: I have a couple things to tell you about this Standard Normal Probability Table. The good news is, I am willing to copy, at the expense of Montgomery County Public Schools, one of these for you. It is [also] on the inside cover of your textbook, however it is a pain in the butt to flip back and forth when you're doing your homework. If you lose [the copy], it is easy to find it. Just google image search "Standard Normal Probability Table", and you too can print out one of these. It's not a secret. That's the good news. Stein: The bad news is I don't call it the "Standard Normal Probability Table", and what I'm about to tell you is probably the most annoying thing you'll hear from me the whole year, and you're going to hear it over and over again until you can't stand it, because I call this thing the "CH-A-R-A-R-A-RT" *shouts in crazy fluctuating/yodeling tone*, like that. // students laugh Stein: Now, there's no reason for that. I've been doing it for probably twelve years, since I started teaching statistics. You can't stop me. I know it's annoying and I continue to do it, so there's nothing you can do about it. And probably in about ten minutes you're going to be sick of hearing about the "CH-A-R-A-R-A-RT", but there's nothing you can do about it and just think how you're going to feel in January. After every time you got this piece of paper out, the stupid teacher goes "CH-A-R-A-R-A-RT" and nobody knows why. And what makes it even stupider is this is not even a chart. It's a table, so there's no reason behind why I call it the "CH-A-R-A-R-A-RT". Stein: Now first of all, there are two sides to it. Do you see the column that says "z"? One side has positive z and the other side has negative z. Now, you might think to yourself, being a smart person... Students: ...self... Stein: Thank you... it's symmetric, so you don't really need both sides, right? Students: Right. Stein: And in fact, I learned this when I was tutoring a kid who was doing IB. In Europe, they only give you one side. And you can do the problems just fine with only one side, but there's a reason why Europe is in decline and the United States is the greatest country on Earth. And one of the reasons why the United States is the greatest country on Earth and Europe is in decline is that we have both sides because we're Americans, and we don't need both sides but damn it, we get both sides!

#2254

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Oct. 3, 2010, 2:55 p.m.

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Whitacre: I love legalism. They should bring it to this country. It's like a totalitarian state. [Because] everything is regulated, you never have to worry about breaking the rules because everything's a rule. It's like "Can I do this?" No. Just assume "no", and we have to kill 'em. That's why I like legalism. See, if you break the rules, then we have to break you. Student: Sounds like a terrible system. Whitacre: Why? Because you like to break the rules? Yeah, that's exactly why. Most people don't want to think for themselves anyway.

#2255

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Oct. 3, 2010, 3:34 p.m.

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Whitacre: So if anyone wants to be immortal, once again, don't break open those thermometers and start drinking. Ten years ago, or something like that, kids were breaking the thermometers in the science labs and they closed the school down because they had to have the HazMat come to school and clean it up. It's not a good thing. But then I remember when I was in grade school, somebody brought mercury in as a science project and put it on a piece of board and rolled it around and it's like, "Let's get closer to smell the fumes, it's nice stuff!" See, and yet nobody cared about this; it's like "kids are our future" and all that kind of crap. Remember those [catchphrases]? When I was a little kid it's like "Drive cautiously, don't strike our kids, they're matchless". You know, and it's like the kids are the future, and it's like, did you ever wonder about when that is over, when you're no longer the future, like what age that is? When you become just another piece of baggage on the planet that we need to figure out what to do with? It's like "oh, you have so much potential" and then you're like "Who are you, why are you here?" I'm still trying to figure out what that age is. I think you're all past it, by the way, you knew you'd have it or "uh oh". Join the ever lengthening line of "I could've been great."