>Professor writes theorems
>Writes 1 line of the proof
>Says the rest is trivial
>Talks to himself and says "Wait a minute..."
>Draws geometric object on board
>Says "Yes... yes.."
>"What about that edge case?"
>"Ah yes,... yes"
>Walks around the room for 5 minutes
>Class is dead silent
>Laughs to himself
>Starts laughing hysterically
>Goes back to the board
>Says "Ah yes, it's trivial"
>States next theorem
>Doesn't write it down
>Says the proof is trivial
>Goes to the next problem
>Rinse and repeat the entire semester
>See TA furiously writing dozen of notes in the backroom
>>8004112
That sounds like one fun class! What course?
>>8004112
>30 minutes into class
>teacher stops talking, stands still in front of the window staring out through it
>stops after 20 seconds, and continues where he left off
>this happens at least 2 more times during the class
Every single class
>ask professor for clarification on a problem
>works a whole different problem that doesn't relate to the question I have
>well, times up, good luck on your test
Looks like I'll be in his office tomorrow.
>>8004112
>differential equations prof
>would write a problem on the board, maybe do one simple step and then skip the rest and write the answer on the board
>erase and repeat the entire semester
thankfully the class was easy enough to learn on my own but damn that was a bad course
>turns up 20min late
>leaves 20min early
>has a 10min break in the middle "to let it soak in"
lazy bastard
>>8004396
Group theory & Geometry. Covered Algebraic topology, Theory of transformation groups, Geometric Group theory, Lie Algebra etc. Research was required.
Btw this was an "undergraduate" course and I say that because we went well beyond an undergraduate scope. It was open to students without a background in abstract algebra, but we covered all of a first semester algebra course (which is normally 16-weeks) as a 'review' in a week or less. This shows you the pace of of class. We covered a lot.
>freshman year
>linear algebra
>prof never lifted up his head
>prof never even looked at us
>always turned towards the board
>mumbling barely audible
>handwriting looks like 5 year old scrawled with human feces
>>8004423
So...I'd imagine a few people dropped soon?
>>8004427
There were people that dropped.
>an hour into class
>prof says 5min break
>he connects his phone to the speakers of the lecture hall and plays "happy" from william pharell
>while the whole course is laughing he just stands there with a cold face and does dance moves every once in a class
best prof ive ever had. really good lecturer and in addition to that hes the director of the institute of physics
> French teacher in an algebra course for freshmen at a top tier US uni
> "we'll do it the French way"
> homework sheets have nothing to do with the course and are hard as fuck
> every single question requires 2 page proofs
> final exam is a set if 2 problems with 20 questions each
> students start bitching
> guy told them with his thick French accent
> "Just try to think on your own. I'm here to learn you the truth, not to solve standardized problems. If you can't do it you might reconsider working to some prestigious american fast food restaurant"
I could have killed him
>>8004481
isnt that a little bit cringy ?
>>8004502
no its not, for a physics prof
you can see him at 45:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaVdNRsrrHU
>>8004496
French professors are pretty funny. I had one who had a dual appointment to the physics and math departments and was always opining about the differences between physicists and mathematicians.
>to be physicist, you must be strong and smoke pipe
>>8004524
What is he doing 45min onward?
Also, why do some professors feel the need to wear suits?
Majority of my math professors dressed casually,
>>8004502
>cringy
cringeworthy word of the day
>>8004552
hmm i ment to write 30 min
its a compilation and a christmas lecture by professors for professors
>>8004496
What is it with Frenchies
>taking developmental bio as an undergrad
>first day professor says he fails 60% of the class no matter how high their grades are
>think that he's just joking
>exams aren't even that hard as the average is around 70ish
>still 60% of the class gets a D or worse
>literally can't do anything to him because he's tenured and nobody in the administration cares
>in fact on his door it has a number of students failed during his life time
>>8004112
I guess this isn't exactly what you had in mind, but I'm coming at this from the other side.
>first lecture I ever gave was with my fly wide open
>and I don't mean just a little undone, I mean see my underwear wide open
>2 full hours, about 80 students
>my boss at the time was on the first row
>15 minute break halfway through
>she must have noticed but said nothing during the break
>>8004596
>>8004496
apparently it's their system, they have some kind of impossible nation-wide contest to enter prestigious uni at a near graduate level so they have this competition spirit
a friend of mine showed me the written math exam and it's a fucking 6 hour-long hard as fuck exam, apparently less than 5% get in a prestigious uni...
maybe it's why they're so good at math
>>8004605
>teaching simple work group where students have to read a paper and then present it
>tell them in opening lecture that they have to present, no excuses will be accepted except funerals and serious illnesses
>if they don't present, they fail
>they have six fucking weeks to prepare
>email every student individually a weak before their presentation is due to remind them
>student emails me on the day of his presentation to say he's not prepared because he forgot
>goes to the dean when I fail him
Every year something like that happens for some reason. Literally all they have to do is stand there and they pass, pretty much.
>>8004112
>CS, second year in yurop
>Concurrent programming class
>Teacher explains what a deadlock is
>"Does everyone get it?"
>Class nods
>"I can't hear you! Do you get it, or not?"
>Some people say yes
>"What about those who didnt answer? Did they get it? They didn't?"
>He does this, every day, for every single explanation he gives
>He eventually gets mad and says that "well, if I just sat here and didnt say anything everyone would think I was a terrible teacher!"
You already are.
>>8004633
similar thing
> teacher pedagogy is like throwing shit on the blackboard without explanation
> "everyone gets it ?"
> THAT one guy in the first row : "yes it's ok"
> teacher : "ok then next chaper"
>>8004633
They tell us to do this shit in mandatory teaching courses. If we don't try to engage the students by getting a reply out of them we can get reprimanded. On the evaluation form you probably had to fill out after the course there are explicit questions about that stuff.
>>8004608
But they literally take 2 years to study for those entrance exams before they even set foot in university, or at least that is what I've understood.
>>8004633
>You already are.
if you don't have the balls to say "I didn't understand, please explain again", you're the one who's terrible
>>8004639
One of the teachers has been getting expediented for the last ten years, every single year because of major shit such as "heh I forgot to turn up at finals so a whole third of the exam was not evaluable since I had the parts at home". He still has a job.
>>8004416
>prof consistently 10-15 mins late
>not uncommon to extend the class by 30+ mins
>once lectured for the 50 mins we have allotted for the class, and then an additional 55 mins afterwards
>I'm totally ok with this because it's my last class of the day, and it's real analysis
>>8004644
I did get it. Imagine if every single concept was accompanied by a 2-3 minute reprimand on whether we understood or not because he didnt heard us say in unison YES TEACHER. College isnt high school.
this happened in middle school
>take high-school biology while in 7th grade
>never pay attention, talk to girls in back of classroom
>literally learn nothing over entire year
>final exam and final project time
>do nothing, ever, consistently
>get 93 percent on final exam
>"wow i actually know this stuff"
>make presentation about photosynthesis
>get 13 percent
>learned for the first time what it feels like to hate another human being
>fail the class and am forced to drop out of all my advanced high-school level classes
>>8004700
>>make presentation about photosynthesis
>>get 13 percent
Why?
>>8004608
>they have some kind of impossible nation-wide contest to enter prestigious uni
meme. Grandes Écoles are not uni (and most have very little international recognition except for ENS and the École Polytechnique). But yeah it's very competitive. Basically they give you the top engineering/management education in France.
>>8004112
Pure math, what do you expect?
>>8004496
>If you can't do it you might reconsider working to some prestigious american fast food restaurant
S A V A G E
>>8004892
Because he's 'lazy but smart' and when he actually needed to prepare the information he just winged it and fucked up
Source: I did this and occasionally still do
>Want to return a book to professor
>After 6pm so department closed to students
>Security guard knows me so he lets me in anyway
>Go to professor's office
>Look through window
>He is on his computer
>Screen is showing that classic intro shot where the camera moves down the woman's body while she wiggles
>Professor has his trousers around his thighs
>Knock on door
>Trousers up so fast I didn't see
>"Come in!"
>He gives me wide eyed stare
>Give him book say bye
>Never mention that I saw him
>>8004923
yeah but when it comes to math their school Polytechnic and their Ecole Normale Superieur are clearly among the best of the world
why don't they have international recognition ?
>>8004112
> GRADUATE course
> teacher is a sociopath obsessed with perfection, high achievement and rigor
> after every paragraph or theorem he asks us questions or small challenges
> he suddenly points out someone, asks him to stand up in front of the class, and starts to ask questions
> total humiliation if poor guy makes the slightest error
this was terrific but we learned more things than ever.
>>8004965
Top kek
> teacher asks a question
> nobody answers
> tries something at the black board
> "do you think this is right ?"
> nobody answers
> "okay who votes for this ?"
> sound silence
> "who votes against this then ?"
> nothing
> "who doesn't vote ?"
> nothing
> "who doesn't express himself on the fact he doesnt vote ?"
> class gives the usual retarded catfish look
> " who does not want to express himself on the fact he doesn't want to express himself about why he doesn't vote ?"
> absolute silence
> " this country is doomed"
> throws chalk, brush, papers and lectures notes out the window
> "see you in hell"
> then gets out of the class
> class is mortified
>>8004423
How many credit points/ hours per week?
How many hours in total?
>>8005987
Top fucking kek.
>>8005931
These schools have international recognition among academia. ENS is a school with 10 fields medal and 40 student per year.
>>8006182
He was fucking right though, why wouldn't you answer your teacher
>>8004631
anxiety?
>2 days ago
>in a lecture of Prof X
>Prof Y comes in with a beer bottle in his hands
>smiles
>thumbs up
>goes out
>???
>>8004496
Mwaaaah the french
>>8004650
>college isn't highschool
How does it feel you critise a lectur with that shit statement, do you really believe he haven't thought about why he does it?
> The professor who would switch between rectangular and spherical co-ordinates in proofs and not make note
>the professor who didn't wear a lapel mic so you can only hear him when he wonders near the lectern
>the professor always wears a cap indoors, always
>the professor who is left handed and smudges his ink all over the page
>>8004425
Fuck you mate, you chose the wrong university. Your department fucked themselves over by gouging their algebra/geometry group, and now we have to pick up the slack in their shitty lopsided curriculum by teaching the classes they can't. You think we give even a single shit how well you guys are taught? I assure you that the professor wings the entire lecture because hecan't be arsed to prepare, and rightly so. Fuck you and your math dept.
>>8006088
or so he can yelled at those those about to give him a parking ticket
>>8006223
the other proffesors don't do that. I'm fine with interjecting, but refusing to continue the class because someone doesnt simply nods instead of saying "Yes, we understand" (a simple yes wont suffice, "Yes what? Yes you get it? Yes you dont? Explain me") isn't the solution, it only made the lecture room empty.
Not a prof story, but I had a sick high school physics teacher
>two physics teachers at our school
>they're best buds
>one looks like Tommy Chong with Hawaiian shirts, other is someone known as Sleedog by the older kids, never seen him before
>in year 10 (what Americans would call sophomore/sophmore/whatever)
>stuck doing the generic science class because specialty subjects like chemistry and physics aren't offered until year 11 (junior year)
>have Chong as my science teacher
>in a phase where I coasted along on talent, didn't do any work
>mates and I spend lessons playing Soldier of Fortune 2 on laptops
>Chong's pretty chill so if he knew about it, he must not have cared
>we have a two week break in mid September
>rumours on facebook that Chong had a heart attack
>ohshit.jpg
>come back to school
>school gathers up all the kids who had Chong as a teacher
>"last week, Chong suffered a heart attack and passed away"
>usual support stuff goes down
>year ends, pick my subjects, physics is one
>school doesn't hire a new physics teacher because classes are small enough that Sleedog can handle them
>see Sleedog for the first time
>looks like a short, balding man with an expressionless face most of the time
>smiles and stuff like a normal person but otherwise quite emotionless
>tells pretty cool stories, one where he got hit by a car on his motorbike outside the school
>we have physics at 7:25am on Wednesdays
>during Winter, being at school so early is hell
>show up at class one Winter morning like usual
>wait outside like we're supposed to
>and wait
>and wait
>finally we see Sleedog approach around 7:50am
cont
>>8006255
>heads to the teachers' entrance to the science building without acknowledging us
>opens the classroom from the inside and we enter
>class proceeds like normal
>a friend and myself are discussing latent heat with Sleedog
>he pulls up a chair and leans in to talk to us
>strong smell of alcohol on his breath
>don't say anything about it until he leaves
>friend noticed the same thing
>notice his coffee at his desk
>smell it at the end of class as we leave the room
>alcohol again
>he taught fucking drunk
>happens a few more times
>no noticeable difference in teaching
>just interesting to know we were being taught by a drunk guy, probably falling into depression after losing his best bud
Had him as a teacher for two years and he was fine, and as far as I know, he still is
>>8006257
>>8006255
Just here to tell you that I enjoyed your story.
Might as well post my own too.
>human physiology professor in pre-med programme
>got a PHD in immunology, had a promising research career in Phillip Morris International
>investigated the effects of tobacco smoke on the respiratory system
>they tested this on lab animals
>eventually a law in Belgium passed against animal testing
>The Belgian Philip Morris research centre was closed down, but outsourced to the Philippines were they didn't have such strict laws as Belgium
>was forced to either move to Phillipines or lose his job
>chose for the second
Now he works at my university, but he is a bit socially awkward sometimes and isn't a good teacher at all; except when he's teaching immunology, then he's an excellent teacher.. He always goes 'Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Hm-hm. ' during conversations and that is his usual answer to open questions.
>'What is the function of the Renin-Angiontensin system?'
>'Hm hm. Hm hm.'
>everyone just looks at each other confused
>he proceeds with what he is doing
It's pretty mean, people always imitate him during his lectures and they are being very obvious about it.
>>8006197
40 fucking students??? Is this the case for the other Grandes Ecoles as well?
>>8006084
4-credit hour course. Homeworks/midterm didn't count. Despite this people still would freak out over failing their midterms. Only 1 grade in the class counted, a rigorous oral exam and your research project (original projects were encouraged). In oral you get 1 main problem if you don't solve it you're screwed.Regardless they find out everything you know in the oral as they will take you to your mathematical breaking point and find any weaknesses. They didn't grade you based on how well you performed, but how well your performance ranked against the best student in class.
>>8006255
I also had a physics teacher in high school that got in a motorcycle accident.
>>8006331
Most GE are engineering exclusive with the option of getting a Master's Degree online/attending an Uni on and off in Math/Phy related fields.
Only the very best GE are theory-oriented. The fact of the matter is, that thanks to Prep school, students are heavily hierarchised. You don't need to dumb down fundamentals into engineering for the two hundred most brilliant scientific minds of a (rather) large country.
So yeah, between Centrale Paris/ENS/X you get maybe 250 students a year in solid theoretical courses.
And then there's 20k (order of magnitude) spread over 50 or so schools.
Besides that you have Universities that recruit exclusively after Prep School, for those who don't want to do engineering and failed to get the very best schools. These are usually small promotions (mine has 50, for example).
>>8006331
There are 3 ENS and (for mathematics) each one accepts about 30 - 40 students after the contest
There are also X and Centrale whomight accept like 100 students each (for math)
Which makes a total 200-300 students
>>8006257
that's sad
>>8005987
>> throws chalk, brush, papers and lectures notes out the window
>> "see you in hell"
he was a fucking alpha male
>>8004423
the review is supposed to be a review, not "covering" those topics
anyway sounds like a great class, 10/10 would enroll
>>8006182
How hard is it to fucking respond at least after the third question? You don't even have to be correct, just say anything.
This quickly became one of the more entertaining threads on /sci in some time.
>>8004638
If you dont get it then speak up you fucking autist
>>8005987
Underrated post
>>8004638
I am that guy, hehe!
>>8006651
>emotions
REEEEEEEE
>have a class with this guy
>people who read his books think he's nice and personable
>in reality he's a notorious shithead on campus
>he also hates grading
>I mean *hates*
>the class has no syllabus
>the only thing we get graded on is a presentation that our classmates grade and some notes (we were taking his notes lol)
>do presentations for like 3 weeks
>after we finish he goes "uh oh yeah turn in this random thing I didn't mention before now by tomorrow"
>a couple people go up to ask for an extension because we're busy
>I'm talking to him about something completely unrelated
>he freaks out
>grabs the stack of student grades and throws them on the ground at my feet
>everyone still in the room stunned
>he storms out of the room without saying a word
It was the most unbelievable tantrum I've ever seen in a class. I felt obligated to take a class with him before I graduated because I heard so many stories (also he hands out A's like candy) and wow, what a fucking ass.
>>8007204
his name is Mr Zee ?
>>8007231
Yes. We all just know him as Zee and that pretty much says it all.
>>8007244
this.
University teachers are the most respected but they do the best job. You teach what you love to students who are willing to be there and who generally are eager to learn.
Teaching in high school is where the real challenge is. Absolute respect for teachers.
>>8007244
Is this /pol/?
I could not stop laughing at this bigot's denial of him being racist when he wrote an essay on imageboard of what he thinks about blacks.
Not racist? My ass...
>>8005987
This reminds me of my HS physics teacher, except he was a real schizo.
First class with him was exceptional: he filled us with passion, told us wonders about physics, etc.
Second lesson: when the class began he started screaming at us for the whole period things like "I know what you did!", "if you want war, you'll get war!" without specifying what exactly we "did to him". We were petrified. We tried to talk some sense into him, that maybe he has mistaken us with someone, maybe with some other class, because we had only that one lesson with him so we didn't even had a chance to mess with him... We tried asking what exactly did he think we did... But all of that only enraged him even further.
After about two months the situation became unbearable, since every class looked like that. Our parents (and even parents from other classes) tried to intervene at the principal. The principal tried to calm him down but that only worked for a short while and the whole thing repeated. The principal told some of our parents in private, that he couldn't fire him, because there were absolutely no physics teachers available to hire for those wages (It was a public school so he couldn't change them). We had to deal with him for two years, and then we got a teacher that had less clue about physics than we did (it's not an exaggeration, really).
My school was overly quite good, math was great compared to other schools, but apparently our year was unlucky when it came to physics. It was a real challenge not to hate physics after all of that.
>>8007287
You obviously didn't read any of it.
>>8004481
Thats amusing.
>>8007287
> ur raycist D':
post ignored
>>8007287
What's wrong with anti-black racism?
>>8007363
I read all of it,
He is a racist and he clearly knows it.
>>8007361
I never denied that the situation is like that,
But he is clearly generalizing the black ppl based on his work.
>Most of my pupils are arabs of blacks
Oh no, it is a result of no discipline.
Also why even mention that they are arabs ? It seems to me that you don't understand what racism is. I am a fucking racist aswell but at least I am not denying it like you, fucking pussy.
I was in white majority swedish schools during the 90's, times were it started to be modern with "children having more power than the teacher". My school years was a fucking hellhole until i got to highschool (age 16).
Maybe it is time to beat your children yp.
>>8007379
I never said anything bad about anti-black racism.
It is his ignorance, he does not understand that he is a racist that is what I found funny.
>>8006234
Wtf are you on about?
>>8004402
>Are you me?
I hated when she left homework, and never checked if we were correct in the results. The class was even divided between 2 or 3 results. Then this prepotential faggot fellow classmate came and boasted over his superior intellect declaring he had the right answer, being 60% of the time wrong and the teacher gave no fucks. This was over when we learned MATLAB, though.
>>8004552
Fucking casuals
>>8006284
I had a prof for inorganic chem do the same thing, but no one ever said anything about it because he was a really cool guy. Was passionate about the subject, taught us way more than we needed to know, but was also very and reasonable in grading us.
>>8007977
I feel ya
I once fell asleep while lecturing in Anatomy and Physiology.
It was a very humbling experience.
>professor has a thick Russian accent
>also has terrible handwriting
>spend way to much time trying to differentiate [math]\nu[/math]s from [math]\mu[/math]s and [math]\delta[/math]s from [math]\alpha[/math]s
>>8005987
this should be standard procedure, to be frank
>>8004112
10/10 post
>>8006331
To clarify, it's about 40 students per department, not overall
And yeah, the other ENS (there are 3 others) also take in about 40 students per year.
For the other engineering schools, it is slightly wider
>professor writes theorem
>the word "path" comes up
>starts to stare at the floor, muttering to himself
>"yeah.. maybe piecewise C^2 is enough"
>"No wait, piecewise C^3 because we have to do this and that.."
>"Well in practise everything is C^inf but you know !"
>this goes on for about 3 minutes
>starts to write down the proof
>realizes he has forgotten how to proceed
>starts thinking about how to finish
>this goes on for another 3 minutes
>the class can clearly see the set of lecture notes *that he has written and printed* on his desk with the proof on it
>>8007977
had the same thing too. i dont know his backstory but from what little i've gathered he must have been a researcher pushed into teaching. he had 0 interest in teaching. what he wrote on the blackboard was a carbon copy of the printed notes he handed out, which in turn were carbon copied passages of the book given for the class. every time someone would ask anything during class he'd go "hmm" with the occasional "good question" and then turn back to his board. if you asked something outside of class, he'd just cite the passage from the book. i passed inorganic and remember nothing from his lectures
>>8004638
>THAT guy
if noone speaks up, the lesson gets stalled. if you care about the lecture but didn't understand, speak up. it's not hard
>tfw smarter than all your professors
Kind of sucks sometimes. I feel like they resent me and grade me harder because of it.
>professor prounces the p in "psi"
>sounds like "pussaye"
>pussy
>>8006234
wat
>>8008254
DUDE
GENITALS
LMAO
you must be 18 or older to post here
>>8008237
I'm a teacher and I do this. If you start reading your notes you're doomed and in the end you just copy like a monkey and make mistakes to the board
>>8008298
Yeah, I know you shouldn't just be copying your notes (otherwise it becomes boring veery quickly) but if you don't remember something, there is literally no shame in looking at your notes, especially if it is a complicated/tricky proof.
It saves everyone some time.
>>8008282
Do people give you a tough time about your accent?
>>8006472
4-credit hours (Does this concern all the work done, even if there was no grade for it?)
So 4*30 hrs Work (exkl. Midterm / Homework or is that factored in.)
>One lecture (taught) or seminar (discussion) credit hour represents 1 hour per week of scheduled class/seminar time and 2 hours of student preparation time. Most lecture and seminar courses are awarded 3 credit hours. Over an entire semester, this formula represents at least 45 hours of class time and 90 hours of student preparation.
45/(3*1) = 15 weeks
90/(3*2) = 15 weeks
(45+90)/ 3 = 45 hrs/creditpoint
1*15 = 15 hrs/creditpoint Class-time
2*15 = 30 hrs/creditpoint Self-study
3*15 = 45 hrs/creditpoint Self-study expected (Wikipedia)
(1+2)*15*4 creditpoints = 180 hrs = 6 ECTS (over 14 weeks)
(1+3)*15*4 creditpoints = 240 hrs (Wikipedia)
How many hours did you have to put in, in total?
>>8007355
What did you (not) do?
>>8004633
Was this in Sweden? Sounds familiar.
he was like this for one or two minutes before i started recording
>>8008730
alzheimers attack
>>8004502
>the whole course is laughing
that's the part that made me cringe.
>>8008308
y-yes
>>8008249
>tfw that stupid kid in the front row who thinks he's smarter than his professors
It's kinda amusing seeing people like you with their smug looks on their faces not realize.
>>8008824
>tfw smarter than everyone but too nihilistic to attempt in advancing humanity
>Back in old community college
>Taking test
>Professor does a search for whatever
>Accidentally clicks on an ad
>Doesn't notice pic related for a good 10 minutes
>>8008847
He must have heard the class cracking up. And fucking hell my friend made that family guy porn
>>8008865
Eventually some girl ended up telling him
>>8008869
what a faggot
>>8004400
Not his fault you don't have a backbone.
>>8008730
>eigenvalues
L-linear algebra is not group theory. :^^^^^)
>>8008730
You're an asshole.
>people actually ask their lecturers and tutors questions and don't just find out themselves
wow it's like you people don't have autism
>>8006228
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>>8006234
>>8004502
It would have made me very uncomfortable.
>>8008976
you're a smart guy
>>8008984
4 u
>>8004112
SF State
Getting a degree in Oceanography, if I complete it I have a job waiting
Class I need for graduation
Professor never teaches, attends class, is never on campus, have to go through assistant
She spends each class talking about marriage troubles, her 6 six kids, shows pictures and videos of her kids doing stuff, had a cupcake decorating contest, required the class to dance for St Patrick's Day, talks on and on about being a Catholic
Everyone has complained, administration claims they will look into it after the semester
Keep asking about the final, tells us it will be based on things we did talked about in class, meaning her kids and Jesus
This is a class about the chemical differences in seawater at different layers, temperatures ect
The only plus is she wears yoga pants, is blonde, 40 and has enormous tits, she even does Yoga in class
I better fucking pass
>sophomore year
>professor does a massively board filling example of some sort of network
>runs out of latin characters, starts using greek letters
>runs out of greek letters, starts using chinese characters
>someone stops him and asks him what a character means
>electronics turns into a 30 minute lecture on the chinese writing system
When it would get especially bad and he ran out of board space early, he's switch marker colors and keep going over previous notes. Loved that guy.
>>8008987
Stories like this make me wonder how difficult it actually is to get a job in a university.
>>8004560
Youre better than this. stay positive friend
>>8009024
Why not use indices?
>>8004112
>asks question
>refuses to continue until somebody answers
>everytime somebody just gives some stupid wrong answer so he continues
vs.
>asks question
>immediately picks a student and expects an answer even if he didn't raise his hand
vs.
>asks question
>you have that one guy in the class who gives a 5 minute rant how he got the answer and asks a counter-question in the end
>>8009024
>professor starts talking about representing an object different in different ways
>a,A,[math]A,\mathfrak{A},\mathcal{A},\mathbb{A}[/math]
>>8009139
>professor asks question
>student A gives his opinion concisely, professor comments on it
>student B gives his opinion concisely, professor comments on it
>professor shows an answer, and how it relates to our thoughts on it
gee, must be hard having functioning human professors and students huh?
>>8009163
Sorry I thought this is the thread about horrible lecture stories, not the smugness contest
>>8006206
>anon can't even answer you on an anonymous Chinese secret trading board
>>8009169
your definition of "horrible lecture" is absolutely shitty, is my point. professors are supposed to engage their students. sounds like horrible lecture for the prof to give, to a room full of entitled lazy brats
On the discussion about profs dealing with a tough crowd.
I very often had to be the bastard answering the prof because 80% of the people attending were either lazy or apparently lobotomized. Fuck them all to hell.
>be in grad level Lie theory course
>final project requires a presentation
>decided to relate course material to symmetry breaking in physics
>even the prof looks perplexed
>the entire class is full of mathematicians who have no exposure to physics
>ended up explaining phase spaces and phase transitions for the first 7 minutes of the talk
>use the remaining 3 to try to cram Lie theory into the talk
>obvious not enough time, only covered Noether's theorem and half of Goldstone's theorem
>prof goes "Anon... see me in my office after class."
>think I failed the presentation
>sulk the whole class and then go to his office
>he has my paper in hand
>"Your talk is fascinating, anon. You obviously hadn't enough time in class, so what you can do is give me a full lecture on this stuff here in my office."
>I'm fucking ecstatic
>give him the best talk on symmetry breaking he's ever had
>achieve A+ on the presentation
>mfw we talk regularly even after classes ended
>>8009258
that gif tho...
>>8008175
anton ?
>>8009258
That moment when you realize he took your presentation, changed some things, and submitted it as his own work.
>>8009226
You should know that all your classmates hate you.
>>8004481
>>william pharell
>>8009295
they created me. they deserve to suffer through the consequences
>new phd student
>had car accident like month before
>still decides to teach on meds
>hello, my name is *his name*
>starts writting it on screen of projector rolled down before board with marker
>students yell at him not to write on it
>gets confused
>hello, my name is *his name*
>starts writtinh his name on screen again
>again told to stop
>this process repeats once more
>someone called other prof and lesson ends
>he quit
it's been like 3 years and part of his signature is still there...
>that professor you looked up to in your undergrad only to realize they were just a "lecturer" who talked big
>that professor you bothered at office hours before you knew what an h-index was and how much more valuable his time was than yours
>that new hire professor who is very nice to you because you're the only one in the class with new ideas and he needs publications
>your PI that you haven't seen for more than 5 minutes this month because he has to write proposals
>the vocational school(undergraduate) portion of your department that doesn't understand anything you do and writes it off as not 'real world'
Story time
>Old Chinese professor teaching multi dimensional signal analysis class
>didn't know at the time, but he has the highest h-index in the department, brought in the most funding, etc. Didn't have to teach but did it anyway.
>Going over first assignment. It was an extremely simple one, the purpose of which was probably to demonstrate simple principles we could apply later in other situations.
>Question we are on is about finding the furthest point on a line segment in which one side has twice as many points as the other.
>Answer is obviously 1/3 of the segment size. Professor moves to skip over it.
>Guy, probably a math major, in the front row says you can map these points onto those points and the answer is can be 1/2.
>getting flashbacks in my head to every /sci/ shitpost ever
>can feel the entire class sigh. apparently he does this in other classes too.
>this guy thinks he has outsmarted the professor
>Professor stares for a moment, goes back to his desk, takes off his glasses, rubs his eyes and looks back at the class.
>>8009407
>"That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my entire career."
>does a simple proof to show why he is wrong.
>"But you shouldn't even need to see this. This is common intuition. Mathematics is not a tool you use to change the truth." (or something like that, happened a while ago)
>little shit that wastes everyone's time didn't speak up for the rest of the semester
>>8009290
I basically summarized a published book for the presentation and paper so I'm not concerned. He's a graph theorist too so I highly doubt he could've published anything on symmetry breaking.
>advanced spectroscopy
>actually is "advanced" spectroscopy
>he spend the whole course explaining what should be basilar stuff in an extremely complicated matter
>then he tells us that we don't need to know what we did, just study the chapters on the atkins and it'll be enough
>as far as I know, I am the only one who did the exam, because everyone else gave up on understanding what the fuck we did
>>8006234
Are you his Professor?
>>8009295
They could have tried contributing to class discussions instead of zoning out like brain dead morons.
>>8009412
If you have points AB that define a segment and if you define a system or coordinates F over the line AB so that F(A) = 0 and F(B) = 1, and you can do this because of some old geometry postulate, who cares, then the answer is clearly 1/3. Call F(X) = 1/3
Then define a second coordinate system G such that G(X) = 1/2 but then G(B) = 3/2 so G(X)/G(B) = 1/3 still.
Wait, is he wrong or right? Fuck, what was the proof your professor did?
>>8009627
That computer monitor*
>>8008865
>my friend made that family guy porn
I don't believe you
>>8009643
It's so random, why wouldn't you believe him ?
>>8008828
Nihilism is not about being a fucking unuseful retard, you douche.
>>8004112
One of my teaching instructors was teaching a course for the first time and he got really sweaty during every class and you could see enormous sweat marks form under his arms over the course of a lecture (even though it was the middle of winter and the building had shitty insulation)
Another professor who taught 1st year intro to c got really mad whenever someone would ask "is this going to be on the midterm/exam" which I totally understand, that shit's annoying and is just a waste of class time.
A lot my the profs in my department are from foreign countries and have weird verbal tics, like one who would say "you know" at least twice in EVERY sentence, and an italian who somehow pronounced "resistor" and "register" the exact same (he also had alternative pronunciations for almost every single greek letter)
Also a math prof at my university got stabbed by one of his students, I thought that was pretty funny
Most of my profs are pretty great desu I haven't really had anyone I hated
>>8009295
The point is to get as much value out of class time as possible so if you know the professor is just going to wait around until someone answers his question you might as well answer it real quick so the class can move on instead of spending 5 minutes of the prof going "come on does no one know this we just went over it"
I've had alot of really good professors who couldn't do babby arithmetic
Had a precalculus professor who hated stupid questions and was kind of an Autist. He had Doctor writing, so there was no way to tell what he wrote. He enjoyed failing people and even told the class that. Out of 40, 23 dropped the class. Including me. Today I still regret not passing that course because it showed me that I didn't cut it when it came to hard professors and I was a mediocre person.
>>8004112
>copypasting jokes from 30+ years ago
>claiming it's your own story
Stop doing this.
>>8009948
>he also had alternative pronunciations for almost every single greek letter
Kek, this seems to be pretty common
>>8008987
Will you fug her
>>8009948
What's the story of the stabbing
>>8010640
This girl got upset at the prof for not meeting her at a particular time so she sent him a bunch of harassing emails which caused him to call campus police. Afterward, she tried to apologize but the prof wouldn't forgive her so she got really mad, went to his office, and stabbed him (not to death).
They took it to court but I never followed up on what happened to her, and in retrospect she probably had some mental issues
>>8005949
I think you mean terrifying
Terrific means great
>>8010674
It's a subtle difference desu, like the thin line between genius and madness.
>>8010687
Poetic
I like you
>>8009445
>graph theorist
>teaching Lie shit
U wot m8
>>8010674
I learnt something today
>>8010705
I'm a graph theorist/combinatorician and I teach Ito Calculus so...
>go to class
>regular professor isn't there
>other professor is covering for him
>normally he teaches one of the intro programming courses
>waiting for lecture to start, he says "hey guys check this out I'm going to prank anyone who comes in late"
>pulls up the slides for that weeks intro programming lecture
>chatting with us while waiting for the lecture to start
>some student comes in
>looks at prof
>looks at slides
>looks at room number sign on the door
>looks back at prof with a super confused look on his face and turns around and leaves
>prog waits 5-10 seconds and then follows him to tell him it was a prank and to come back inside
>took the prank slides down and put the regular ones back after that since he didn't want to have to chase any other students.
Guys a top bloke, absolute legend.
>>8005987
If you can actually engage in dialogue with the lecturer and, even if you give wrong answer, deduce the way to the truth, then I will try to answer the question, even if I may make mistakes.
On the other hand, if lecturer's a cunt who will humiliate you for giving even slightly wrong answer to a question on a completely new topic, then no, I won't stand up and talk unless I am completely sure I'm right.
>>8009948
>he also had alternative pronunciations for almost every single greek letter
If you pronounce the letter π as "pie" you are the scum of the Earth and should be used as a biofuel.
>>8010858
how else do you pronounce it?
>>8010858
He would pronounce basically every vowel as "ee", so phi and chi turned into phee and chee and epsilon turned into ipsilon. Also he would pronounce omega as jomega for some reason
>>8011056
Πι (/pi/) of course. Like the Greeks.
>>8011073
had a prof from french canada that would pronounce 'z' as 'zet' instead of 'zee'. At first everyone was like wtf did he just say but then we figured it out.
>>8011078
so like 'pee'?
I had an asian process teaching complex analysis that would pronounce "smooth curve" as "moose curve". Back then I had no idea what a "smooth curve" was so my entire lecture notes for days had "Moose Curve" written all over them.
>>8011081
Yeah.
>>8011087
lol ew no
>>8004112
>electrical engineering 101
>professor comes in without saying a word
>projects lecture notes of his predecessor from 5 years ago onto the wall
>notes are a literal wall of text with 80% useless trivia
>relevant equations lack any kind of format and look as if they were written in a .txt file (Xc=1/jwC)
>wall of text doesn't even explain the equations properly, so googling them is inevitable
>professor starts reading
>literally reads the wall of text someone else wrote word-for-word, while following along with his laserpointer
>facing the class with his back the entire time
>nobody but 3 people attends his second lecture
>he doesn't care, keeps on reading
>exam is open book and piss easy
>apparently he has been doing this every semester
>control theory prof wonders why people attending his course possess no tangible electrical engineering knowledge
>physics 2A at an upscale community college
>professor got her degree in Sweden (nobody knows what degree she got, she refuses to tell anybody)
>Seems to know physics in her mind, just can't explain it to anyone else for shit
>makes simple arithmetic errors all the time
>once made a Cartesian graph, plotted a line, then numbered the y-axis like (0, 1, -2, 3, 4) deliberately because the answer to f(1)=-2 and she "didn't want to draw out an entire other axis, the graph should be the same nonetheless"
>spent 15 minutes walking around saying "umm" "uhhhh" trying to think of a way to describe the difference between distance, velocity, and acceleration before deciding to just writing (m, m/s, [m/s]/s) on the board and nodding aggressively with a smile on her face, making weird grunting noises of approval
How fucked am I (out of 10) this quarter?
>walk into zoo 110 expecting some piss easy course with some memorization
>Santa clause walks in and starts getting the projector started
>Starts talking about how much he loves bugs
>Near the end of the first day mentions "I've never taught an undergrad course like this before, I've only ever taught grad level classes. I also want to let you know that I am going to make this course as hard as a 300 level course."
>Also all the trees and taxonomy you are memorizing are linnaean, (completely fucking wrong), but we will be testing you based on this classification version.
>Mentions phylogentics for all of 5 seconds before fucking off because "I don't like doing this stuff".
>Does the same exact shit for all the sections covering hormones and dynamic systems in tissue and organ interactions.
>Spends an entire day talking about the mouth parts of his favorite insect.
>Lab is open on weekdays as it is the only way for us to study the slides and parts we were supposed to memorize on the speciemens available
>Lab is closed for two weeks prior to the lab practical
>Entire class fails the practical
Fuck him, I was taking calculus 3 that semester and it was leaps and bounds fucking easier then his class.
>>8009226
You're doing God's work.
In my case, I don't answer because I can't raise my voice in front of strangers
>First day of class for Phys171 (Intro Mechanics for Physics Majors)
>Professor really laid back guy
>Half way through class decides we need a break
>Everyone just sits there so he tells us to go get a coffee or a snack (shop is literally right across the hall)
>Nobody moves
>Says fuck it he'll give us money
>Majority of class leaves goes lines up at the shop, everyone gets coffee or a muffin or something.
>Professor pays for everyone (class is like 60 people)
>>8011450
>I can't raise my voice in front of strangers
Why do you even bother attending university? You realize you will never be succesful at it and end up living with your parents well into your 40s right?
>>8011454
Oh yeah, he did this 2 more times throughout the semester.
>>8006219
wat
>>8011454
>pays for everyone (class is like 60 people)
Jesus...must be getting some decent consulting dosh, especially with how fucking expensive the hipster shit people on campus drink on campus is nowadays.
>>8011457
Aren't you being unnecessarily aggressive over the internet anon?
Anyway, I do ok at uni and seem to be at the top of my course. I don't let social anxiety affect anything that might have any serious consequences.
>>8011370
>>once made a Cartesian graph, plotted a line, then numbered the y-axis like (0, 1, -2, 3, 4) deliberately because the answer to f(1)=-2 and she "didn't want to draw out an entire other axis, the graph should be the same nonetheless"
Christ.
>have job recording lectures
>get to record intro to economics which I was taking anyway
>easy as fuck, but most people can't do the math and won't answer if prof asks questions
>once get fed up with it and answer one
>prof is surprised and scolds the class saying "the camera guy got this right why don't you?"
>after the lecture I pack my stuff and he asks what I'm studying
>tell him I'm actually in this course too
>blushes and is really nice to me the rest of the semester
That was a year ago, Keks are still had
>>8011473
Except if you want an actual job you'll need top notch social skills, not just great public speaking for academia, also being very charismatic in networking with strangers both to for academia and industry. SEM is no place for autists, you can only get away with that being a tech/IT monkey.
>>8011497
I have another one
>record management lecture at 8am
>really chill prof, originally from Russia
>no one bothers attending since its so early and the recordings are put online
>fast forward to second to last lecture
>barely 15 people bother coming by now, course has over 200 people theoretically
>prof comes in early, no one there except me setting up my stuff and him
>sighs
>says to me he doesn't like it here
>ask what's wrong
>"I used to love teaching, not anymore "
>looks really sad
>resist the urge to hug him
That was depressing, seeing him lose faith in teaching as less and less people came
>>8011512
Dude...
>>8011079
its zed you mongoloid, the way it was meant to be called
>>8004112
>economics freshman year
>can't remember how it was brought up but the teacher and some kid are talking about the lower class, completely off topic
>student says some stupid shit like "poor people are poor because they have no drive not to be poor and are leaches on society"
>professor is completely astonished at how ignorant the kid is, says he is wrong
>kid keeps insisting he is right
>professor gives counter example about someone he knows and all the shit he has been through in his life despite working hard
>kid goes "yeah, but does he really have that burning desire to not be poor?"
>professor, eyeing him down: "yes, more so than you, kid."
>continues lecture without skipping a beat
R E K T
E
K
T
funniest part was after class I heard the kid talking to someone else and he goes "yeah, I don't agree with the professor on a lot of his theories but the class might be interesting who knows"
>>8004425
>linear algebra at a community college
>first day
>walk in and wait for fifteen minutes for the class to start
>prof is sitting at his desk and looking at the class occasionally working away at something
>look around
>only seven people, including myself, showed up for class
>prof pulls out an attendance book and looks through it
>starts laughing
>gets up and introduces himself
>goes over what will be taught in the course briefly
>starts joking about how the course will be a white guy teaching seven other white guys linear algebra
>I point out that the school is 80% female by enrollment
>the linear course was only available every other semester
>we all laugh as we realize that we are confirming all the stereotypes
10/10 course, would recommend learning linear in a room of eight white dudes
>>8011512
fuck man
>>8011512
I wasn't ready for these feels
>>8008808
your post id says boob bob lmao
>Relativistic Electrodynamics
>First lecture
>Lecturer says that he doesn't like it when people are late in this particular room because the door is at the front and it throws him off when people come through it mid lecture
>Proceeds to lock the door
>Literally 30 seconds later people are trying to get in
>Carries on lecturing, only opening the door after exactly 5 minutes
>No one is ever late to that class again
>One of our 2nd year lectures is in the Anthropology building (Physics dept is reserved for higher level stuff apparently)
>Door to the building is locked so we're waiting outside
>Old anthro professor who works in the building can't get in either
>Thinks for a second
>Pulls fire alarm
>Doors unlock and he goes to his office as we start to process what just happened
>Total confusion among staff for about 10 minutes
>Saw an exasperated uni admin person talking to him later and he clearly didn't give a fuck
>Probably had tenure
>>8011512
>Feels bad man
>>8008730
I legitimatley think I had him, or someone who looks a lot like him in a blur. What school
>>8011092
/sci/ everybody
>>8011671
>>8011495
Yeah, tell me about it.
I remember this one time...
>Calculus II
>Professor is somewhat uptight, but is also very patient. Exams were hard as fuck.
>Review for final, last chance to help us out.
>He takes questions from students before reviewing his own problems.
>A group of students including myself got together and picked out some questions we were going to ask him. Class was only about an hour and thirty minutes long so time was a factor.
>Class starts.
"I'm free to take any questions"
>Kid wearing green baseball hat and ray bands shoots his hand up.
>Kid asks to go over a surface area integral, involves changing the perfect square using the +1 under the radical.
>Prof does it, takes about three minutes.
>other student asks a fairly difficult question, don't recall what it was but everyone was into it. prof finishes it.
>immediately after the prof finishes, green hat shoots his hand into the air.
>He asks a very similar question to the one he just asked.
>Same idea, just changing all the junk under the radical.
>Professor does the problem, completely cool the whole time, he even cracks a joke at the end.
>Prof picks another student, starts a new problem.
>about halfway through the problem some student mentions an arithmetic error (w/e move on)
>green hat interrupts.
>green hat tries to correlate what the prof is doing in this problem to something involving the square root.
>prof gives green hat explanation to what's going on, green hat responds with typical jargon.
"ya"... "ya"... "ya"
>green hat then asks to go back to the previous problem and explain how he did it.
>professor beginning to show signs of frustration.
>professor goes back, does the previous problem AGAIN and then finishes the one he was doing.
>prof finishes, one or two silly questions from students involving arithmetic. He then asks if there are any more questions.
>green hat doesn't even raise his hand this time.
"Could you do number (whatever the number was)"
>>>>continued
>>8011988
This is what the problem is for the vast majority of students in calculus. It is not that calculus is hard, it is simply they never properly learned the prereqs because high school classes are total shit.
>>8011988
>Professor checks the textbook, other students who have the textbook open do the same thing.
>"Determine the Surface are of the..."
>Professor looks up
"Leave"
>points at the door
>everyone is pretty shocked
>some autists who weren't paying attention begin to get up because they thought he was dismissing class.
>confusion
>green hat raises voice, tries to respond with typical green hat vocabulary ("woah, wait, not cool")
>prof interrupts, loudest ive ever heard him
"Why are you still here?"
>green hat slowly leaves the classroom
>silence
>teacher places his fists on the lectern, takes a deep breath and whispers to himself..
"Fuck"
>everyone pretty shocked, necessary silence
>still silence
>some idiot breaks the silence
"Can we go over some Maclaurin series stuff?"
>some people laugh
>I start to laugh
>professor gives nod of approval
>class goes on
>>skip to day of final
>>Same Maclaurin series he showed us is on our final
>>basically all the problems we reviewed
>>Arc length and surface area problem on final, both involving what green hat couldn't do
>>pretty cool
skip to last semester
>green hat in my linear algebra course
>teacher doing proof
>green hat asks what "i" and "j" are
>teacher just laughs
>keeps laughing
>teacher keeps doing the proof.
>green hat drops
I like how things work themselves out.
>>8012080
>Professor explains how to do a thing thrice (once in lecture, twice in review)
>kid keeps asking the same question
>Lol why u mad
>Kid asks what indices are
>why are you laughing?
Nah, you're right, it's the teacher's fault.
>>8009412
wtf is this bullshit? your prof was either wrong or you understood wrong. "twice as many points" makes no sense as a measure for length, there is exactly the same amount of points in any finite line segment.
>>8012080
How retarded are you?
>>8011092
>lol ew no
it's how greeks pronounce it, jimbo. like μ is pronounced me, not mew
source: im greek
>>8011512
>resist the urge to hug him
the man needed a hug, anon
>>8011608
Sounds like you got it backwards. Professor got REKT couldn't even prove his point. He's just another dirty hippie liberal fucktard Jon Stewart loving douche nozzle.
>>8012110
He was obviously taking it to mean twice the Lebesgue measure, come on anon there is no need to spell every triviality when the context makes the meaning clear (depending on the level of the talk).
>>8012152
im not a mathman and i haven't even heard of this measure. but words have meaning which shouldn't be dismissed, especially in mathematics. what the teacher meant was obvious but not in line with what he said
>>8012156
Here you go
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/there%E2%80%99s-more-to-mathematics-than-rigour-and-proofs/
If the talk is at the post-rigorous postgraduate phase then that's no problem. In fact I think an obsession with rigor makes didactical disasters when writing books. Preceding concepts and proofs with more unrigorous motivations make for better expository writing.
>>8012162
im gonna read tomorrow, it's 2.35 in debntland. thank you, the wiki article was less than helpful
>>8009226
I never answer because I don't know if I am the only one that does not understand jack shit. I don't want to delay for the others while I can just check the textbook afterwards.
>>8012138
No the kid couldn't prove his point, didn't give any evidence, spoke entirely from opinion. None of it based on experience, like he just sat down one day and made all this up in his head.
>>8011868
No then, it's not him, but I had a professor who did the exact same thing before class every time
>calculus 2
>professor is talking about series
>"its very easy, but about 22 in 30 students struggle with the subject of convergence and divergence of a series."
>pauses
>"I think its just tough for me to engage my students, took four tries for my wife to say yes."
>nobody is laughing except the next to me and I.
>>8012512
Yeah bro, that kid is such a faggot. Poor people are some of the smartest people on earth, but the system keeps them down. I look to them for money advice and investment guidance because they ALWAYS know their shit and don't have any bad spending habits. I'm shaking my head right now. Fucking retards don't realize that not everyone was born with a silver spoon and just because someone works at Walgreen's their whole life, that doesn't mean they aren't really really smart
>>8012801
Top fucking kek
>>8012801
Not being "really really smart" doesn't mean one should live in misery, being uncertain if they'll be able to feed their children the next month. You really think that the CEO that makes 100 times the income of any of his employees has worked that money? And those are definitely not ones to speak for speak about bad spending habits.
Had one prof for most of my upper level undergrad cs courses, every time he would get upset that the uni mandates at least two tests a semester and ask when and what we wanted the exams to be.
He would then continue to talk about more graduate level stuff related to but instead of the class subject.
10/10
>>8012080
Green hat detected.
>introductory biology class
>plant biology time
>professor has a slick sidecut hairstyle
>in lectures he makes fun of people for asking stupid questions
>when he asks questions in the classroom he ONLY picks students who do not raise their hands
>fast forward to his final lecture
>something about whether or not cucumber is a vegetable, nut or a fruit etc.
>raise my hand and give a (wrong) answer
>he repeats my answer in the voice of a retard
>the correct answer is fruit
Really cool guy overall.
>>8004496
>Aaaah the french
>>8013083
lol wtf, how did he not get fired?
>>8013083
He sounds like a bro actually. Some people in first year subjects are seriously fucking retarded.
>not knowing things with seeds are ALWAYS fruit
>>8013251
>getting fired for being a shit or obnoxious teacher at a university
lmao
>>8005949
It was funnier before I realised you meant 'terrifying'
>>8006645
I'm a 1st year in ENS Cachan, we're 70 first years in the engineering department. You can add the physics, mathematics and comp sci department to this.
Bump. I need more entertainment.
>>8004112
>you see in a proof of "if and only if" you have to prove one direction, then prove the other direction
400 level class
More of a student story but oh well.
>first week or so of Orgo II
>prof was actually pretty decent at explaining stuff
>lecture starts normally
>'wild asian appears'
>kid walks up to the head of the class and starts drawing on the board
>prof looks at him and says "hi". What's up?
>Kid's acting super enthused about organic chemistry
>I honestly thought it was some stupid plug for the peer tutoring thing we had
>Prof's face is a mix of worry and concern
>look up at kid's drawing
>ohshit.jpg definitely not a skit
>creepy drawing of a smiley face
>Prof keeps his cool and tells the kid to sit down and take notes
>other students freaked out and leave class to call security
>asian sits down with marker
>no paper? no problem
>takes off his freaking shoe and starts writing on it
>acting like his life depended upon every word that the prof said
>must have ran out of space on his shoe because he eventually went back up to write on the whiteboard again
>prof starting to get pissed and tells the kid to sit down
>two student security guards come in
>'Gotcha! Asian was caught'
>can't remember if they remembered to take his note-shoe with him
>prof gives the class a 5 minute break.
Apparently organic chemistry makes some people literally crazy.
>>8012117
It's anglicised though
>>8011608
I disagree with the kids point but anecdotal evidence is a shitty counter example
>>8012552
The joke's kind of ambiguous desu
>>8013755
Probably a meth addict who needs his curly arrow fix
>>8012117
This is exactly why we took your language when your civilization was cool.
My helleboo friend got εὐδαιμονία tatooed on his arm, and he pronounces it "eu", not "ef".
>>8013755
Actually lol'd
>>8013755
>two student security guards
Wait is this a thing?
>>8004112
sounds fucking awesome if you ask me
I hate profs who spend too much time on writing down easy proofs
>>8013891
>That's somehow the thing that stands out for you in the story.
>>8013891
The school hired students to do light guard duty stuff (mostly sit behind desks, kick out homeless people who wandered inside, etc.) and to walk students back to the dorms at night if they felt uneasy walking alone. More of a visual deterrent than anything, but they did have walkies-talkies in case the real police needed to get involved.
