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Happy New Year
I hope everyone is looking forward to a good upcoming year.
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submitted: January 1, 2006 |
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[About the Israeli language, a.k.a. "Modern Hebrew":] "Whatever we choose to call it, we should acknowledge, and celebrate, its complexity."
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Dr Ghil`ad Zuckermann, Israeli Linguistics
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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submitted: January 4, 2006 |
| Rating: 10 |
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While explaining binary space partitioning trees, he exclaims,
"Only God and computer scientists can create trees!"
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Roger Opp, Theory of Computer Graphics
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD
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submitted: January 6, 2006 |
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[about rates of change in calculus] Have you ever been hit in the head by a falling ladder? Well, I have.
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Prof Costin, H161
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
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submitted: January 6, 2006 |
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I hope it's a monkey!
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Steve Berglund, Acting
Central Michigan University, MT. Pleasant, MI
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submitted: January 7, 2006 |
During a really bad student written/directed play when the mother opens the door to meet her daughter's date... whom everyone could tell was going to be a girl.
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I have to say at the beginning of the semester I was worried. You guys weren't that good. But now you're a little bit better.
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Steve Berglund, Acting
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI
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submitted: January 7, 2006 |
The most painfully honest professor I know.
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"If the Devil lobs a tennis ball at me, I don't have to lob a tennis ball back. I can lob an intercontinental ballistic missile. So long as I win!"
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Dr. John Roe, Introduction to Real Analysis
Penn State University, University Park, PA
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submitted: January 8, 2006 |
Dr. Roe filled in for the equally insane Dr. Brown one day.
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"Infinity is a funny place to live."
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Dr. Steven Arnold, STAT 418 - Probability
Penn State University, University Park, PA
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submitted: January 8, 2006 |
I wish I could remember what prompted this quote, seeing as it was a probability class where inifinity didn't really come into play.
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"You might think Laplace is weird, but I think Galton's got him topped there."
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Dr. Steven Arnold, STAT 418 - Probability
Penn State University, University Park, PA
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submitted: January 8, 2006 |
In response to a strange statistics quote by Laplace found in our text. He later showed us the equally odd quote by Galton.
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"Your instinct is going to be wrong, unless you have the same instinct as me: that anything involving the variance is going to be bad."
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Dr. Steven Arnold, STAT 418 - Probability
Penn State University, University Park, PA
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submitted: January 8, 2006 |
On the variance of a uniform random variable being (T^2)/12
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"You don't need to know a lot of stuff to be successful anymore...THERE'S GOOGLE!"
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Professor David Hyman, Fundamentals of Economics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
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submitted: January 10, 2006 |
Hyman on how to be successful in life these days.
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If he himself were from Narnia *pause* well, it would be a very different story
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Julie, Narrative Writing
Algonquin College, Ottawa,
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submitted: January 10, 2006 |
She meant to say "Sarnia," a city in Ontario we were discussing
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Well if it wasn't easy, it would be hard.
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Garland Owensby, Campus Ministry
S.A.G.U., waxahachie, tx
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submitted: January 10, 2006 |
as apposed to...
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CSI has nothing on me!
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Keith Shomper, Object Oriented C++ Design
Cedarville, Cedarville, OH
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submitted: January 10, 2006 |
- on his ability to detect academic dishonesty
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Ohh, we have another chalkboard!
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Dr David Gerhard, CS 490bx
University of Regina, Regina, SK
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submitted: January 11, 2006 |
We had been in the class for a while by this point.
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I have been inside a room with a bag of sugar and survived!
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Tony Arber, Electricity and Magnetism
University of Warwick, Coventry,
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submitted: January 11, 2006 |
Some of us weren't so lucky.
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"You'll find our TA Emily to be flexible, but firm"
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Dr. Maxson, C130
UCI, ,
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submitted: January 12, 2006 |
First day of class, and the prof was introducing the class TA. I'm positive all the boys noticed how firm she was before that comment was even made.
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These guys are 1n half there life. Like your sperm and eggs...sperm and eggs sounds like a breakfast doesn't it? "I'll have the sperm and eggs please." You'll hate me next time you are at Denny's and that thought enters your head.
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Chris Petrie, General Biology
Brevard Community College, Titusville, FL
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submitted: January 13, 2006 |
This guy is crazy. He does this just to see who is paying attention.
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...I mean, what's the point in talking if you can't verbally abuse someone?
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Steve Berglund, Directing
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan
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submitted: January 13, 2006 |
We were going over the syllabus and got to the "classroom civility" section. He stresses the fact that only students have to follow the code.
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I know I'm supposed to start section 3.5 today, but I don't really want to talk to you about that. What I really want to tell you, is how you can fit an elephant into a 225,000 dimensional cube...
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Dr. Richard Gardner, Linear Algebra
Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
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submitted: January 13, 2006 |
Dr. Gardner was our eccentric substitute for a week. Section # and n dimensions are approximated from memory.
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Is there a love-o-meter? Can you measure love? No, but all of us experience it in our lives. Some of us this morning.
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Dr. Greenbowe, Chemistry 103A
Universiy of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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submitted: January 14, 2006 |
We were talking about the SI units of measuring things and how they didn't always work.
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The air has a lot of sediments, its called the Earth.
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Ben Harack, Physics 109
University of Regina, Regina, SK
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submitted: January 14, 2006 |
| Rating: 7 |
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"What makes the Jewish people so successful? If it was just about eating bagels, we would have copied it a long time ago...maybe it's because we eat our bagels steamed instead of boiled!"
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Dr. Brad Lemler, International Finance and Economics
Taylor University, Fort Wayne, IN
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submitted: January 17, 2006 |
During a lecture looking at types of culture and their relationship to economic success
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What can I say about the text book... The book is shite
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Dr.Barry Gleeson, CS102
NUI Galway, Galway, Galway
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submitted: January 17, 2006 |
Great way to start the lecture
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We'll be working right through the semester, even during RAG week. I know you have better things to be doing, like getting drunk and stoned and laid.
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Dr.Barry Gleeson, CS102
NUI Galway, galway, Ireland
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submitted: January 17, 2006 |
So true Barry, so true
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