HuskerMath
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You all ready for story time?
So, I teach at my university (I'm not a professor, professors have Ph.D.'s), specifically abstract algebra. Once you get that high up in math, it becomes quite the sausage fest - I average about two females for every class. In my first class of the day, when I walk in (20 minutes early), the only two female students were playing on the old school Gameboy Colors, hooked up by the wire. Growing up in the 90's, I naturally assumed they were playing Pokemon.
I was right, and some of my faith in humanity had been restored. And then the brunette one opened her mouth.
She was clearly losing, and said, "The only reason I can't land a hit is because all of yours are evolved! When do these freaking Pikachu and Dragonair evolve?"
Now here is where I had the issue: Do I straight up tell her the error of her ways? Or do I keep the respect that I've earned thus far and leave it alone?
You're damn right I told her.
So, I teach at my university (I'm not a professor, professors have Ph.D.'s), specifically abstract algebra. Once you get that high up in math, it becomes quite the sausage fest - I average about two females for every class. In my first class of the day, when I walk in (20 minutes early), the only two female students were playing on the old school Gameboy Colors, hooked up by the wire. Growing up in the 90's, I naturally assumed they were playing Pokemon.
I was right, and some of my faith in humanity had been restored. And then the brunette one opened her mouth.
She was clearly losing, and said, "The only reason I can't land a hit is because all of yours are evolved! When do these freaking Pikachu and Dragonair evolve?"
Now here is where I had the issue: Do I straight up tell her the error of her ways? Or do I keep the respect that I've earned thus far and leave it alone?
You're damn right I told her.