In the spirit of being depressed, I had Calculus this morning and we were getting back the last quiz we took. Prepared for the worst, I was ready to curse all mathematicians past and present for raising expectations so high. As stories like these usually go, I was more than pleasantly surprised to get a good grade on the quiz. While 'good' doesn't seem like the grand remark you would expect (unless you did expect it, but I am not pandering to whatever audience you belong to...), 'good' is many steps up for a student who dreams of 'merely adequate'.
To commemorate this monumental occasion, I have decided to compose the list of the Top Nine Ways To Tell You Are Bored In Calculus.
9) It seems like a good idea to fake a sneeze and see if anyone interrupts the class with a 'Bless you' or 'Gesundheit'.
8) It becomes easy to make juvenile sexual innuendo out of any mathematical statement the professor makes.
7) You find yourself attempting to come up with a mathematical equation that would illustrate at what exact moments the minute hand crosses over the hour hand.
6) An invisible gnome appears on your shoulder and encourages you to steal things.
5) Adding up the number of students in your class, subtracting those wearing the color magenta, dividing by the number of ceiling tiles, and squaring it all by how many times the teacher said 'um' in the last minute gets you 23.
4) You begin to wonder whether your professor has an accent or just starts drinking early.
3) Seeing the theorems on the board makes you reminisce of your favorite technobabble from an episode of Star Trek.
2) You come up with this list during class lectures.
1) Calculus begins to make sense.
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