Way back in the day — okay, maybe two years ago — I had to take a math class at college to fulfill a gen. ed requirement. When the time came to sign up for classes, my roommate and I elected to study under Dr. Lee for several reasons:

1. He integrated his fascinating Korean heritage into lessons.
2. By providing real-world examples into his homework, he made mathematics relevant to the lay man.
3. Compared to the other choices, his class was the easiest.

Over the course of the next semester, Dr. Lee provided us with so many nonsensical and downright insane statements that I had to write them down. In fact, I think the majority of my notes from that class consisted of doodles and quotes from him.

So, without further ado:

Everything I Ever Needed to Know, I Learned From Dr. Duk Lee
(A series of hilarious quotes from the man himself, collected over the course of a semester of MAT120)

On Paying Attention

• “DO YOU SEE THAT?!”
• “Ok, no more surf the web to buy…a hat. A pair of socks.”

On Binary Numbers

• “Yeahhhhhhh, not treeeeeeee, but twoooooo…”

On Enjoying Ourselves

• “Want to have a fun, ok?”
• “Let’s go out, play golf, man!”
• “I think you will have enough money to play golf.”
• “Let’s gambling!”
• “I’m happy! All right!”

On Playing Pranks

• “Oh no! I have big bug in my pocket!” [while pulling out an origami spider and throwing it on a student]

On Family Values

• “I am working with 900-piece sonobe units, and my wife yells at me, ‘You have three children! You have wife! You have family! Stop with the origami!’’”

On Critical Opinion of World Origami Day

• “They say, ‘It sucks’.”

On Loving Microsoft Excel Just a Little Too Much

•  “Cack!” [trying to pronounce the word “click”, but he got very excited]
• “Then, you go boom?! Then, you go BOOM?! Then, you done!” [demonstrating clicking between columns to work out formulas]
• “Then, ding, here we go!” [here he was launching the program]
• “Isn’t that convenience?”
• “Spreads*** idea” [trying to pronounce the word “spreadsheet”]
• “Keep clicking and…holy Moses.”
• “So, let’s sweat, ok?” [the room was rather hot as we were logging in]
• “Beeeeeee fourrrrrrrr.” [singing cell number “B4”]

On Getting a Student to Pay Attention 

• “Johnnnnnn, what are you doing with the email?”
• “Move away from the email before I bang your head.”
• “I go get my guitar and bang your hand.”

On Decisiveness

• “Starting from the wake-up time, you try to decide, ‘should I get more sleep or not?’”

On Praising the Lord

• “Everyone! Pay attention now to devotional time with the Bong-Bong Brothers!” [forcing three of us to sing the Pink Panther theme song to the class]

On Getting Right to Work

• “Yo, yo, yo, log in.”
• “That’s so filthy problems!”

On the Superiority of Computers

• “Even Einstein can’t do that. He’s dead. He’s in the ground.”
• “The pencil these days do not have that kind of situation.”

On Consequences

• “Or else, I’ll spank you.”

On Loan Payments

• “My heart goes ‘stop’.”

On Trying to Make Fun of a Tardy Student

• “We talked about you. Your ear was kind of itching? I think she’s still asleep!”

And the Defining Quote of the Semester:
“If the Superman stops crimes, and crimes happen, therefore, the Superman does not exist.”