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"Alright class, since none of you have any questions pertaining to the lecture notes we'll go right ahead and do a wee exercise. Go ahead and put yourselves into groups and come up with a multiple choice question for lectures 9 through 16."

:::ten minutes later:::

"Alright, you should be almost finished. I'll collect your questions when they're complete."

:::5 minutes later:::

"Your group is finished? Here come on up." I awkwardly walk to the front of the class. Handing me the marker, "You won't mind writing your question on the board right? It will be quite a bit faster than me writing them all by myself...Oh and be sure to write in all caps."

"Oh, right okay." Great, this is going to take forever. Do I even remember all of the capital letters?

:::2 minutes later:::

:::hushed snickering throughout the entire room:::

What are they laughing at? I'm pretty sure I spelled everything right. Well at least I'm almost done and I can go sit back with my fellow Einsteins. I didn't see any of them volunteer to write this up here.

Lecturer approaches the front of the class again."Wow, those are some...um, nice 'big' words."

Mortified, I take a step back and realize it looks like I have written my question about the sodium/potassium pump for the cast of Sesame Street. Each of my letters are 4 inches tall and the question literally takes up a third of the whiteboard.

"Oh, haha...yeah I guess they are! Well, erm...our class rooms are a lot bigger back in the U.S."

Brilliant.