immediately i thought of the ending to the dark knight.
i should probably now interpolate between those two sentences.
last week one of my quiz questions was numerically painful for the students, due to a typo or two: suddenly they had to take the sum of squares of two 2-digits numbers instead of two 1-digit numbers, and then some. [1]
subsequently a majority of the class was unable to complete the quiz in the allotted time.
i think most of them still haven't forgiven me.
so in some show of fairness, i wrote another quiz that same thursday, and told the students that they'll get another chance to take it again for a better grade.
on friday, i spotted a new typo; most of the steps would remain intact, but they wouldn't be able to reach a final answer. so i fixed it and emailed the new copy to the TAs ...
..
..
yeah, you can guess what happened.
actually, it gets better:
that one TA made the photocopies for another TA as well.
so i told the TA,
"look, my name is mud already.
you remember last week, right?
i'll just tell them that it was my mistake.
they're mad at me anyway."
sometimes it's not about being a hero. sometimes we make mistakes, sometimes we don't, but someone has to deal with the pieces .. be the object of scorn .. say, a dark knight. \-:
[1] if you must know, it was something like $\sqrt{28^2 + 33^2}$.
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