diff --git a/cifar/README.md b/cifar/README.md
index 118aef9e..d6bdaf9a 100644
--- a/cifar/README.md
+++ b/cifar/README.md
@@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ Epoch: 99 | Test acc 0.807
 Note this was run on an M1 Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM.
 
 At the time of writing, `mlx` doesn't have built-in learning rate schedules,
-nor a `BatchNorm` layer. We intend to update this example once these features
+or a `BatchNorm` layer. We intend to update this example once these features
 are added.
diff --git a/cifar/main.py b/cifar/main.py
index 26d06a6a..829417b1 100644
--- a/cifar/main.py
+++ b/cifar/main.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def train_epoch(model, train_iter, optimizer, epoch):
                 )
             )
 
-    eean_tr_loss = mx.mean(mx.array(losses))
+    mean_tr_loss = mx.mean(mx.array(losses))
     mean_tr_acc = mx.mean(mx.array(accs))
     samples_per_sec = mx.mean(mx.array(samples_per_sec))
     return mean_tr_loss, mean_tr_acc, samples_per_sec