Wednesday, October 17, 2012

The Real Reason I Didn't Get An "A" In Calc 2

I have finally figured it out folks.  The reason I didn't get an A in Dr. John Elton or was it Elton John.  No really our professor's name was John Elton but we called him Elton John.  Jess, Christie and I picked his class because a) he had a good gpa, b) we had word on him, c) he wrote the text book (it was green paper back, I still remember that dreaded thing) and d) he wasn't a headless horseman...this was important stuff at Tech, folks...vital in fact.  Anyway, it was an 8am class.  We would stumble out of beds at 7:40, just in time to throw on something other than our pjs and brush our teeth before our walk across campus. As the three of us walked across campus from our digs on West Campus...Woodruff...top floor, very last room on the hall...we swore it was the very, very edge of campus, we debated who was going to jump in front of the "Stinger" bus to get the rest of us a 4.0 for the semester.  Important stuff, folks.    

Getting back to the reason I didn't get an A.  I figured it out this morning.  I can't do math within an hour of waking up.  I was pumped after my run this morning.  I managed 3.something miles in 33:10.  I did the quick math and determined that was a 10 minute mile average!!  Then, once I had been awake more than an hour, I realized that it was actually an 11 minute mile, dang it.  So the moral of this story - I didn't get an A because the test was nearly over by the time I had been awake an hour...that is my story and I am sticking to it!!

UPDATE::  I just remembered that it was second semester of our freshman year.  Meaning, we lived in Harrison still, not Woodruff.  However, it was still Jess and Christie and maybe Liz and Laura.  And we will continue to swear we lived on the very edge of campus, this time our front door was 75/85 and we had to walk up the freshman hill.  And I can assure you we still discussed the "Stinger" matter as well.

1 comment:

Christie said...

Liz was definitely in our class I remember locking our door a couple mornings we didn't make it. And we would get the chocolate muffins before heading to Gunther Combover's class...I think the chocolate muffins and the extra hour to wake up were the keys to doing better in biology than Calc 2.