She did wake up, mostly because Dr. Zee Smith had called on her, and she still felt groggy. "Umm, yeah?"
"Ms. Rowan, please try to stay awake," he sighed from the front of the class. "Do you know how to answer the problem on the screen?"
Ro scowled mentally. Of course she didn't. And she wasn't sure how she was supposed to help this Zee, or if he really deserved or needed it. "Use a calculator?"
Dr. Smith sighed, as if severely put upon as the rest of the class giggled. "Probably the worst invention in the world, the calculator. When I was a student, we actually had to memorize things and know how to solve things."
"So you just look really young for your age," a student shot out.
She cringed and the teacher started to explain how to solve the problem without calculator. She probably somehow made things worse. And then, paying attention to his explanation, she called out, "Isn't that the pirate thing .. arrr dee-arrrr?" She remembered Bucky explaining that, once upon a time, when he was trying to prove his not-geekiness by showing how math could be funny. (His method meant he was destined to fail, and he was so geeky he couldn't even see that.)
"Exactly, Ms. Rowan! And what a clever mnemonic."
"I'm just full of surprises. Hey, do you like snow globes?"
Dr. Smith paused and tilted his head as he looked at her. "Ummm … yes, I suppose so, Ms. Rowan."
"Thought so."
He looked like he was curious to ask why she had asked, but instead went back to the problem at hand. Ro merely sat back in her seat. Perhaps trying not to disrupt his class was enough help.