whitest teacher ever

i have officially raised the bar of whiteness.

one of my students showed up with fronts yesterday. fronts meaning those gold teethie things that fit in your mouth. i noticed something was up when it looked like he had fangs hanging out of his mouth. today i asked if i could see them. he then smiled at me and revealed oh the gold. so much gold. i asked him if they were permanent and he promptly took them out of his mouth to show me that they were not. i then asked him whether he could open cans with them. oh the giggling. he said no, and i then asked him if he had tried. again, no. well... maybe you should try. i asked him what he would do if someone tried to steal them and he looked at me like i was crazy. need i remind you that he is TWELVE. TWELVE-YEARS-OLD and wearing fronts. he also has homemade tattoos on his hand.

but it gets whiter. our subject of late is specific heat, or the amount of energy (heat) it takes to raise the temperature of 1 kg of material 1 degree Celsius. The lovely equation that goes along with specific heat is Q = mCΔT. when writing the equation on the board, i wrote mCΔT and remarked that he's a super underground hip hop artist. you know, MC ΔT. i then told my students i bought one of his mix tapes out of the back of someone's car. and it was super hot on the street. oh, you guys don't know about him? guess you're not street. i also told them the rapper TI named himself after Ti (initial temperature) and that his new album is called "Specific Heat." almost lost my cool when someone asked me if that was the album he was writing from jail. why yes... yes it is. i went on to describe how there's actually a lot of overlap between hip hop and thermodynamics. that hip hop artists get a lot of inspiration from the likes of Boyle and Faraday and physical science and during set breaks the artists are callibrating their thermometers backstage.