Reflecting on dr. liu
Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 @ 03:52 PM
Somehow I don't think I'm alone when I say that I TOTALLY KICKED DR. LIU'S EXAM'S ASS. And by TOTALLY KICKING ITS ASS I mean I knew a whopping 60% of the material after studying for a full seven hours. For that one, singular, fifteen-page exam. SEVEN HOURS FOR ONE EXAM. For those of you who are behind on modern glynnis humor, "totally kicking the exam's ass" means absolutely nothing. I am hoping for a C.
But, in other all-caps news, despite a predicted less-than-desirable grade, I never have to see his Chinese face again. I think this is a safe prediction, considering the man never leaves his classroom. He explained it to us once: "I close door and turn out light -- the other facurty, they think I am not here so they don't bother. This how I grade your monthly test yesterday afternoon. I stay up 'til two in the morning grading, then make the dinner and go to bed. I work harder for my student."
Ah...Dr. Liu -- how each and every one of your students will miss you. No other teacher has ever honestly thought my name was Ricky (I think it evolved from him not knowing how to pronounce "Glynnis" and thus calling me by my last name, "Ritchie," which somehow became "Ricky." It was sometimes "Ricky Glenih," but mostly just "Ricky"). Nor do I think any teacher in the future will think my name is Ricky....nor do I plan on using it as a nickname....
How we will remember your Chinese perverbs (which, despite being perverbs, we cannot for the life of us figure out the origin of the two halves), your advice on eating french fries, your mispronunciations, and your outrageous analogies that, somehow, always lead to students working harder.
Let's take a moment to reflect:
"The student must be like the tea-pot. Master put him in oven, teapot say 'No mastah, take me out! Is to hot in here!' but the master say 'You must stay in the oven to get hotter until you ready to come out.'"
"Water only flow one way down mountain."
"The classroom is battlefield. You must arm yourself or I shoot you! (makes gun motions with both hands)"
"This we can see in the puppy dog or the puppy cat."
"My daughter, he eat the french fry. He take and dump onto napkin. I say 'Daughter, why you do that?' He say 'Daddy, look at all the oil. I don't want that in my body.' He is a very smart student. You need to take care your body for the daily work to study harder."
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oh god, he'll never live down the puppy cat. NEVER.
also, morgan's coming to qzar.
25 May 2004, 4:58 PM.