Arman asked How did you fail this week?

I came up to Scotland. So far this morning I've been snowed on more than once and passed a snowplough on the road.

Penelope · 1mo

I don't recall being sick since like 2022 but got sick two days into my first ever international trip as an adult (sad trombone)

Tuned in 40 minutes late for England v Brazil yesterday expecting a 7:45pm kick off time. Was able to rewind to the start and avoided spoilers, unfortunately the make-a-wish kid ended up scoring the winner.

Ed Hunter · 1mo

I was late to work on Tuesday after holding 15 parent-teacher conferences on a Monday. I was there until 6:40 pm. That’s bad on me for over scheduling myself.

LaDamaX · 1mo

So many ways. As you may or may not know, laws regarding mathematics requirements in higher education have drastically changed in California. Community colleges used to provide an opportunity to the COMMUNITY. Someone who hadn’t been successful in school, or hadn’t been in school for ages could take classes that started from scratch and through these classes gain skills and knowledge to successfully transfer to universities. Anyway… so… math was always a weak subject for students, and most would get placed in a low level non transfer course where it would take them years to get to a transfer level. Some would get stuck and quit. New laws now require (by June 2025) colleges to place students directly in calculus :) it first started with requiring direct placement into college algebra (during pandemic) , then direct placement into trigonometry (started last year and which is where we are now)- and I’m guessing we’re headed towards eliminating community colleges altogether to filter out the “undesired” and only allow access to higher education to the financially privileged. Anyways…let me not make a long story even longer. I have failed because one of the classes I’m teaching trigonometry to students who don’t know basic arithmetic (forget algebra). And 90% of them are badly failing. Therefore I am badly failing.

cLOUD · 1mo

oh hey I have another story from earlier this week - I was out having lunch with a friend and there were six women from Africa speaking Swahili at the table next to us, laughing and having a good time and they would look over and smile occasionally and I'd smile back and all, so they get up and leave and after they were gone a couple of minutes another lady comes up to me and told me those women were laughing about marrying me and getting money and then me dying (sad trombone)

Sean ⚡🤖 · 1mo

My boss had a go at me for trying to explain an answer to one of his questions (my explanation starting with 'sometimes' and then he had a go at me for being vague in front of the rest of the team... but 'sometimes' context applies to things...)