Comments | bram: Ed Bostonian and The Monster

bram

Ed Bostonian and The Monster

Sep 12, 2001 19:23

So in physics class I'm covering basic kinematics. You know, constant acceleration:

x=x0+v0t + 1/2 a t2This is the equation my old high school teacher, Ed Bostonian, used to call "The Monster." I've introduced it as that to my students, and it's caught on. They call it The Monster too ( Read more... )

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bostonian's progress slip anonymous September 13 2001, 08:26:23 UTC

your mom STILL has it in her purse, although it is tattered and illegible.

Guess whom?

Re: bostonian's progress slip bram September 13 2001, 20:34:22 UTC

Hi Mom!

ashleyisachild February 26 2006, 00:40:51 UTC

wow, nice entry, who are you?
This blog entry of yours is the SECOND HIT on Google if you search for "ed bostonian" in quotes. I felt so bad for him in high school. People hated on him so much, just because he was sort of lame. Hating on him was still the thing to do when I was at GRHS (1997-2001), and it seems like it's still the thing to do, unfortunately. (One of the other google results included some 18-year-old girl's profile on some website that listed ed bostonian under "people I really loathe"... like, what did he do, run over your firstborn child, or something??)

bram November 29 2010, 00:22:35 UTC

Hey, just noticed this years later--I was busy when you posted your comment. Now I'm planning a job interview lecture in which I use The Monster, and googled Bostonian again. Yeah, it's sad the way students hated on him. Looks like that continued, if you look at ratemyteacher.com. I think the kids weren't ready to think analytically at that age and took it out on him.

ashleyisachild February 26 2006, 00:50:58 UTC

PS. You seem to be a physics prof or something. What do you teach? Astro? I know too many astro people.....

ashleyisachild February 26 2006, 00:56:42 UTC

(After more stalking on your website...)
HOLY CRAP, YOU ARE IN A PHOTO WITH ISAAC ASIMOV.