[Sideline reporter interviews me at halftime of lecture]
Reporter: Professor, it seems like you lost the students in your explanation of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. What do you plan to do to get them back?
Me [mops brow]: Well, we've just got to get through Dred Scott and I think we'll be fine.
Reporter: Professor, it seems like you lost the students in your explanation of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. What do you plan to do to get them back?
Me [mops brow]: Well, we've just got to get through Dred Scott and I think we'll be fine.
Comments
Me: Well, I decided to skip jargon like 'orogeny' or 'convergent margins' and right now I'm pretending to be the North American plate and I'm shuffling towards a table called Europe