If you have never seen a student flip the script on a professor, Natalie Carter recently took to TikTok to share a story that is currently blowing up, with over 6.1 million views. The San Diego resident recounted her time as a math major, noting that ‘I was a girl in STEM, so I was used to facing sexism everywhere I turned.’ She then noted the incident that took place during the first week of the semester while she was in her Calculus Three class.
Carter noted two key things as context in her video. One, that she is a nerd who enjoys researching things outside class, and two, that she was a tutor at the school. So, when she noticed the professor teaching a foundational concept in a “dumpster fire way,” she asked him about it, pointing to a different method that she found in her research. He dismissed her, saying, “You expect me to believe you? That you’re doing research outside of class on this topic?”
