An Excerpt From My Math Notes:

I'm sitting in my college math class and have absolutely no idea what is being droned at me. This has been a reoccurring problem since seventh grade pre-algebra.

I look around at my class fellows and observe their glassy-eyed blank faces. They remind me of computers in sleep mode.

Four minutes until freedom. He'll utilize every last second to reiterate the simple concept we all grasped before half the class period was over.

I pretend like I'm in Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. It is an improvement.