Monday, April 18, 2022

Surreal Connections Across Time and Space

 What if you were still in contact with one of your earliest students?

AP Physics Dim Sum Run, Jan 2005

Swampscott Prom 2005

What if she came by for lunch 19 years later? (She was in my second batch of students ever, junior physics '03-'04)

What if she casually pulls out some notes she took from one of those classes from so long ago when someone tried to derail my lecture by asking for some "life lessons" and you replied by writing "Three Rules for Living a Happy Life" on the board?

What if she were now a teacher herself and was adroitly influencing the futures of another generation of students?

Well if all of those things were true, you would really be a lucky, fortunate person now wouldn't you?


Thanks, MG, for the early, steadfast, and life-long validation.  And thanks for turning out to be just as lovely an adult as you were a teenager!

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