re: Hardest class or topic you had in high school?

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Chemistry was my hardest in college. In HS, probably geometry, because I very rarely went to class.

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The geometry teacher at my small school was an older alcoholic with a doctorate from Julliard. My Dad said, when he was hired, that "no Julliard PHD would teach at (name of town)." Our classes ranged from 13 to 26 students, so it was a small class B school.

The geometry teacher drove a huge black Cadillac and would drink at lunch time in his car. He could play the trumpet at a very high level. The first day, he rambled about Euclid being the immortal geometer who would one day return to Earth." He had a low, kind of whispery, ghost like voice.

He was amusing. If he came in and we were moving about class, he would say "what are you ... a bunch of nomads? Now sit down, jerks."
Students were flicking white tic-tacs at him, and when he asked what they "projectiles" were, I said they were lizard eggs falling from the ceiling tiles. He discovered my b.s. so the next day he said "Mr. Chin, you are sooooo full of bullshite."