Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

And happy new year everyone. We are going to get right back into part two of our Ask Us Anything episode. We recorded this in one part, but we're bringing it to you in two parts. So let's just dive right in with my next question to Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley and

Nicole Hammer of Vanderbilt.

Here we go.

Okay. Next Okay, next question. Let's do this. This is a little, another one about your sort of

of academic work, but is there anything that you loved or

hated about a teacher that you had either in I guess suppose high school or

college or graduate school that you've kind of tucked away as

something that you want to carry into now the fact that you're that you're teaching so

something that someone did in a classroom that you either liked or didn't like.

Mm, man.

Something I didn't like.

Oh gosh. I can I can buy you some time by giving you an answer I had I will not say

this person's name. I had a teacher in high school who was the worst. She I think had, so I always knew since a very young age I've always been writing, always reading, always writing that's just been my thing.

And I was in her AP English class and I would chronically get poor grades like all the time like C's B's which you know I'm I've always been a strong student so I was like this is personal so I remember I had my mom and my

mother is a professor retired professor so I would have her read all of my work

before I submitted it so that I knew like this is of my mom's

mom's a professor, I know.

And I remember I worked so hard on this paper,

like busted my butt, turned it in, and I think she gave me like a B-plus.

Like that's the best she could bring herself to do.

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