This woman. Basically, she claimed to be Afro-Latina/Puerto Rican and from the Bronx; it turns out she was white and from Kansas. The story got a ton of media attention at the time-- there were profiles in the New Yorker and Vanity Fair and everything.
I had her for a huge freshman-requirement World History class, which was actually my favorite class that semester, because it was framed around the 1600s-1700s in Pretty Much Everywhere But Europe rather than 1800-1900s in Europe (and U.S., and during the Cold War, China), which is what my high school World History class had focused on. I never had an actual conversation with her or anything; she would always beeline out of the room immediately after class and was never on campus otherwise. She also cancelled class a lot, and I actually got higher than 100% on my final exam for her class because she gave everyone extra credit because she didn't get us our midterms back until, literally, the week before the final. (At the time, she said she was dealing with [physical] health stuff and I remember feeling really worried about her; now I'm like, WHO KNOWS IF THAT WAS TRUE, because it turns out she was LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE.)
Honestly the thing that is going to live rent-free in my head forever about this woman is the time that she made a comment in class about how "Drake pretends he's from the hood, but he's from Toronto." It was weird at the time but in retrospect I'm like, MA'AM????
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I had her for a huge freshman-requirement World History class, which was actually my favorite class that semester, because it was framed around the 1600s-1700s in Pretty Much Everywhere But Europe rather than 1800-1900s in Europe (and U.S., and during the Cold War, China), which is what my high school World History class had focused on. I never had an actual conversation with her or anything; she would always beeline out of the room immediately after class and was never on campus otherwise. She also cancelled class a lot, and I actually got higher than 100% on my final exam for her class because she gave everyone extra credit because she didn't get us our midterms back until, literally, the week before the final. (At the time, she said she was dealing with [physical] health stuff and I remember feeling really worried about her; now I'm like, WHO KNOWS IF THAT WAS TRUE, because it turns out she was LYING ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE.)
Honestly the thing that is going to live rent-free in my head forever about this woman is the time that she made a comment in class about how "Drake pretends he's from the hood, but he's from Toronto." It was weird at the time but in retrospect I'm like, MA'AM????