about the title of this blog
i should explain.
at my school, when students finish an assignment early and have a minute or two to kill, they’re encouraged to do something called “Me Right Now” which basically means make a thought map about how you feel at the moment. i grade daily mini-quizzes from all the 6th grade math classes, so i see a lot of MRNs scribbled on the backs of papers. and here’s what i have learned from an informal analysis of hundreds of samples: at any given moment, approx. 95% of students are hungry, bored, and tired.* the only real variation is in their spelling.
to clarify, i myself am usually hungry, never bored, and always tired. often exasperated.
*they’re often cold, too.