favorite professor quotes

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: slsmnaz
I had a calc professor that would solve about half the problem on the board and then write "I.O." and move on to the next problem. After a while someone got the nerve to ask him what IO meant and he explained it meant "Intuitively Obvious". He thought that once he reached that point that it was beneath him to explain any further.

"beneath him" is the most important part there. So many professors are like this and it always pissed me off. God forbid I pay them to teach me and that sometimes requires repetitive learning through lecture and example. Pride sucks.

No, once he got to that point, he was wasting the time of 90% of the class to finish the problem. You grew up in a system where they teach and cater to the lowest in the class: high school. It's college now; if you don't know how to finish the rest of the problem, then you have two choices: review the old material that you should have mastered by now on your own, or fail. Generally, the majority of the class knows what to do to finish. And, the better students are grateful because they don't have to sit there wasting time while the teacher caters to the slow kids. (I don't mean to sound harsh.)

Originally posted by: Stoik
In Advanced Math for Engineers class, in Russian accent (talking about Fourier transforms)

"How did so many of you get this problem wrong on test? It so simple, use the equation. I thought that what engineers do best, get equation from mathematician and plug numbers in."

lmao! The rivalry is alive and well at that school.

 

[clickynext]

Originally posted by: DrPizza

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: slsmnaz
I had a calc professor that would solve about half the problem on the board and then write "I.O." and move on to the next problem. After a while someone got the nerve to ask him what IO meant and he explained it meant "Intuitively Obvious". He thought that once he reached that point that it was beneath him to explain any further.

"beneath him" is the most important part there. So many professors are like this and it always pissed me off. God forbid I pay them to teach me and that sometimes requires repetitive learning through lecture and example. Pride sucks.

No, once he got to that point, he was wasting the time of 90% of the class to finish the problem. You grew up in a system where they teach and cater to the lowest in the class: high school. It's college now; if you don't know how to finish the rest of the problem, then you have two choices: review the old material that you should have mastered by now on your own, or fail. Generally, the majority of the class knows what to do to finish. And, the better students are grateful because they don't have to sit there wasting time while the teacher caters to the slow kids. (I don't mean to sound harsh.)

Profs do that a lot at my school and about 10% of the class actually knows what's going on. The other 90% don't even ask because they don't want to look stupid. The best, clearest profs always take the extra few seconds to finish their problem and give students the complete picture. I hate profs that think that the quantity of examples they finish is more important than how clearly they do them. I once had a prof who did each of his examples slowly and in painstaking detail, taking half a class to finish one, and every student in the room understood him fully.

 

[chcarnage]

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From my ex chem prof:

"I get 100 in cash for every student who fails at the graduation!"

"Every problem got solved. This proves that the examn has been too easy."

"(...) Mercury doesn't get excreted with urine, but with sh!@T."

"Care for your girls or they'll turn into feminists!"

"I don't explain it to you because you're a masochist. A high school senior."

Professor pours the remains of an experiment down the drain.
Student: "Sir, isn't that water pollution?"
Prof: "Well, where do you live?"
S: "In Wettswil!"
P: "Okay, now let me switch to Wettswil..."


Ex geography prof:
Class: "Why don't you give back the exams now?"
P: "Because of the suspense!"

 

[pmoa]

ok listen you jack knobs....Im going to put this chalk up your nose and pull it out your finger.....AND THATS IMPOSSIBLE!

 

[archiloco]

ancient history of architecture part I prof.....
(said in the highest tone of gay you can put it in, no offense, just plain funny)

"ok class time for a Quizzet...time for a Quizzet"

 

[Canai]

My geology prof last semester, when talking about how some creationists believe that the Earth is 6000 years old.

"Well, they're just plain wrong"

It was good.

 

[PepePeru]

freshman psych. class
he was discussing an exam and the scores.
'these are some of the lowest scores, worst scores ive seen etc etc etc'

one person scored a 23%.

'monkeys pulling on levers can get 25% right!'

the entire class erupted in laughter. however, its a reasonable assumption the person that scored a 23% wasn't there to get embarrassed.

 

[HN]

*Calculus professor puts up his fists in a mock-boxer type pose*
"Well, I was gonna take'em but they kept coming in"
-after a rather large group of protesters came into our lecture, gave their spiel, and left.

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"It's not *shouts* N. It's N factorial"
-Probability professor writing N! on the board.

 

[ChaoZ]

"If you don't know, just say you don't know".

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: scrawnypaleguy
Professor Foster was a 27-year old professor who still lived in his frat house... greatest class I ever took.

Hahah... sounds like a funny guy.

 

[Kev]

In high school Latin:

"Cave super mingo te"

This was said by a priest. Frequently.

It means beware or I will piss on you.

 

[RKS]

Law school (Civil Procedure) professor told the class that unless we paid attention to his 200+ slide PowerPoint that "attorneys would eat our kids for breakfast".

The guy was (and still is) an ass and even more so after students complained to the dean regarding his horrible teaching methods.

 

[Zenmervolt]

This was back in HS, but it was still funny.

We were working with liquid chemicals and one group's reaction didn't occur as expected, so they call the teacher over (a very sweet older woman who had a good grasp of Chemistry but still managed to remind you of your grandmother) to ask what had gone wrong. She asked them what they'd mixed together, which included a couple of chemicals that weren't called for.

By now the rest of the class is watching, at this point just to laugh at the group who couldn't mix chemicals right.

The teacher started scribbling the reactants down and suddenly stopped, stared at the paper for a split second, then gasped "Oh NO!" and rushed out of the room.

That was not the most comforting thing that I've ever had happen.

(The teacher returned moments later with rubber gloves and a large pair of tongs and very carefully moved the beaker to the sealed off fume hood saying, "I'll have to dispose of this specially." We never did figure out what they actually created.)

ZV

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Mucho
The one thats sticks in my mind: "Unless a war breaks out all you guys are going to be unemployed."

Hmm.....lucky you I guess.

 

[Coolone]

"If it spells "ass", then it's wrong"

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

A lack of planning on your part does not constitute a crisis on mine (by my wife, a college professor) to students who suddenly decide at the last minute they need a better grade right about finals time.

 

[chuckywang]

When asked how much we should write for some short answer questions, my Japanese high school teacher said:

"A good answer is like a skirt. Long enough to cover the subject, short enough to maintain interest."

 

[ultimatebob]

"COBOL is NOT a dead language" My CIS professor back in 2000.

 

[Fenixgoon]

girl in class: A lot of paper dropped the class

prof: a lot of people SHOULD.


owned, so very, very hard.

 

[invidia]

My nuclear physics professor: "I see a couple of old faces but some new ones. It's like what they say, 'out with the old, in with the nucleus'."


Professor begins to lecture but was interrupted when he drops his note cards. I am the only one laughing out loud

 

[Deeko]

haha goosemaster, drexel had some good professors for quotes. My favorite was Bill Goh. We called them Gohisms.

"I no care if the arithmatic is wrong. That donkey work - you have computer for that"

 

[bGIveNs33]

ap chem teacher in high school-

"hey, I need your progress report so I can sign it(mid-term report card"

me-(with chem gloves and an apron on)-"oh, it's in my front right pocket, grab it"

him-"oh no, I'm not falling for that one......(pause)... again"

After a grueling day of safety lectures of the lab we were about to do(I think it was making no2) and how this is a very dangerous process... one of the kids asked, he mr. ______, is mine supposed to look think this??

him "Oh my god, get down!!!"

kid jumps on the ground, teacher laughs.

liquid nitrogen day, after busting a ball, kid says... could you do that with your finger? And he says yea, but I could only do that, what, 21 times??

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Deeko
haha goosemaster, drexel had some good professors for quotes. My favorite was Bill Goh. We called them Gohisms.

"I no care if the arithmatic is wrong. That donkey work - you have computer for that"

my friends had Goh..I had...can't remember....I remember they used to tell me stuff like that

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: bGIveNs33

liquid nitrogen day, after busting a ball, kid says... could you do that with your finger? And he says yea, but I could only do that, what, 21 times??

:laugh:

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: G Wizard
freshman psych. class
he was discussing an exam and the scores.
'these are some of the lowest scores, worst scores ive seen etc etc etc'

one person scored a 23%.

'monkeys pulling on levers can get 25% right!'

the entire class erupted in laughter. however, its a reasonable assumption the person that scored a 23% wasn't there to get embarrassed.

You say that, but I took a Pchem class where the average test scores tended to be in the 30s. That class was insane....20 pages of problems for an hour-long test. If it wasn't curved, I don't believe a single person would have passed.

That guy was insanely suspicious of computers, too. Felt they were the downfall of all science.