Another tutoring session

My glorious pi-day (3.14) was spent in class, the library, home for lunch, tutoring center, the park, gym, and Chili's. Half of the activities on my list, I spent with my beautiful sister Tiff. We spent the evening laughing about the gnats that were stuck on her face after we got done running. Honestly, there were at least seven stuck in her face-sweat AFTER she wiped some off. She looked pretty goofy. But she was still pretty. I wish I could rock gnats.

Before Tiff and I went jogging, I spent some time in the Tutoring Center. I walked in, asked the main tutoring-guy, Alan, if I could work with the plastic models for Anatomy. He directed me to a secret room filled with intense students who were seated by microscopes and miniature muscle/organ models. Alan asked two Latino boys if I could join them since I needed the same model to study from. They were very enthusiastic and exclaimed "Sure!" We didn't exchange names, all I remember are the color of their shirts - red and pink. They turned to me and the boy-in-the-pink asked "Is your lab tomorrow?"

I responded "No, it's on Friday. I did pretty bad on my last practical. I gotta do better this time."

Him: "Who's your instructor?"

Me: "Christina."

Him: "Oh really?! She's very cool. I like her. She's a good instructor."

Me: "Yeah. She's pretty tough. Well, I guess this whole course is tough."

Him: "Yeah it is. What's your grade in this class?"

Feeling pretty good about myself, I responded "I have a B."

Both of the boys looked at each other and then back to me and said "Oh." Like I just told them I had a C or something. Kind of hurt my pride.

So I said: "What's your grade?"

Boy-in-the-red responded: "My brother (points at brother) has the highest grade in our class."

Boy-in-the-pink became embarrassed and modestly said: "Well, probably not anymore. He (points at his brother) probably has the highest grade now."

B.i.t.r.: "He has a 104%."

Me: "What?! Serious?! Wow!"

B.i.t.p, still modest, responded: "Well, I have a 98% now. I didn't turn in my study guide last week."
Me: "And it brought your grade down by 2%?"

B.i.t.p.: *Silent

B.i.t.r.: "Well. 104 to 98... more like 6%."

B.i.t.p.: "Oh yeah haha."

Me: *Silent. "I'm going to concentrate more on the skeleton. Ummm, I'll just use this model over here to study from..."

Both: "Haha okay cool."

Another reminder as to why I need to go the tutoring center. So I can be surrounded by smart people.