Once upon a time in CLH A: Memories from the "Mathematics for the Life and Social Sciences" lecture hall.

Today, after my class in the afternoon, I and Blake went to the NEXUS to see whether there were any lectures for today. Fortunately, we saw one lecture which started at 2 pm and we decided to go there. However, when we carefully looked up the sign up sheet, we saw that it was already full. Nevertheless, we didn't change our minds and jotted down the lecture hall location and professor's name, and after that we went to the food court to have lunch. On the way to the food court, we bumped into Terry, and later found out that we were on the same ship. Then, we had lunch and conversation together without noticing the time. It was about a quarter to two when we realized that we had to go to the lecture hall. However, it didn't take us a lot of time to find the hall. We arrived before the lecture started and decided to go as far as we could from the professor. After some time, we saw the professor coming into the hall and we knew right away that he was an old professor and maybe a strict one. He started off by explaining about limits. At first, I had no idea what he was talking about because I hadn't been in touch with Maths since I finished my high shcool and plus, I was not good at Maths, either. However, later on, I somehow realized that although I had studied something like that before, I still couldn't understand it. Moreover, I couldn't catch up with his English. I have no intention to insult this professor, but sometimes, his English was not clear enough for me to understand. I found out one thing, that there were more Asian and Middle Eastern students there than in the lecture that I had attended before. Some student seemed to be understanding everything and, as usual, some students were doing what they wanted to do. This professor somehow liked to ask students some questions and ask them to go up to the front and write something. He showed some charts to the students, which I think helped a lot of the students to understand better what he was teaching. All of a sudden, the professor pointed at Terry and told him to come up to the stage to write something. I was shocked, too; I thought he was calling on me. Having no choice, Terry went near to the Professor and told him that he was a YUELI student. The professor seemed like he didn't know what YUELI was and asked him what that was. Suddenly, I heard the professor say, "You come here for English!!" and the whole lecture hall burst into laughter. I couldn't imagine what I would do if I were in his place; that would be such an awkward situation for me that I would be like a 'retarded cockroach', without knowing what to do next. However, my friend Terry managed to come back to the seat without writing anything. I am sure that he also felt very awkward to be laughed at in front of the hall. However, it had been a scary and funny lecture experience for me and of course for Terry.