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'Let' is one of the most misused words in English. For example, politicians use it like `Let there be no tax'.
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Jackson, Math 235 - Linear Algebra 2
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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submitted: January 15, 2003 |
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Hey wait, this doesn't even parse in English!
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Danny Krizanc, CS 212 Data Structures
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
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submitted: January 15, 2003 |
Commenting on a word problem in the textbook that he'd assigned on the review sheet.
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I hope I did not go too fast ... but now I am going to go slow enough for your pleasure.
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Abdul Jerri, Calculus 3
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
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submitted: January 14, 2003 |
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Hopefully you are all clear enough [on this] that you know that you need to be confused here.
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Satish Thatte, Software Tools
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
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submitted: January 14, 2003 |
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This is a common mistake that people repeatedly make until they are beaten on the head
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Satish Thatte, Software Tools
Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
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submitted: January 14, 2003 |
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Fear, suprise, and an almost fanatical devotion to the code, these are our chief weapons in the fight against ... gingivitis!
(Later)
Student: That's bad karma.
Prof: The karma ran over my dogma!
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J. K. Greenlee, CS2130
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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submitted: January 14, 2003 |
6/5/01, in A Huge Lecture Hall.
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I'm going to have to whack Bill over the head with a large blunt undergraduate student.
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J. K. Greenlee, CS2130
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
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submitted: January 14, 2003 |
Talking about another CS professor (also tenure) while lecturing to 200 students in a CS class.
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prof 1: Could I ask you about the first part of your proposal?
prof 2: The time for that has ended.
prof 1: But I want to ask him some questions about it.
prof 2: You had your chance, if you don't like it you can go fornicate with a fence post.
prof 1: Hurumph, I would hardly think that would be sufficently erotic.
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submitted: January 13, 2003 |
Defending Master thesis, prof 1 was a jerk.
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I really was in class last Tuesday, I was just invisible and you didn't see me.
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UIUC, Champaign, Illinois
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submitted: January 12, 2003 |
Professor in an email, explaining why he didn't show up for class.
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I remarked to her that if I was going to be a piece of furniture, I'd rather be a davenport, it sounds much more distinguished
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Frank, Analysis of Algorithms
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
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submitted: January 12, 2003 |
When his title was changed from Chairman to Chair
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He is happy, smoking a cigarette, and a glass of wine is in his hand.
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Dr Andre, Calculus 110
Universtiy of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan
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submitted: January 12, 2003 |
Related rates in calculus, the guy was watching a rocket take off. He drew the guy on the board even!
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You can see how the corona has lost almost all of its colour this far out from the chromosphere.
Um.. I actually think I'm cheating a bit: this is a black and white slide.
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A. Gower, ASTR120
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
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submitted: January 11, 2003 |
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It turns out that Kodak slide carosels rotate in the same direction in both hemispheres
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Stewart, GOPH 375
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
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submitted: January 11, 2003 |
Talking about the coriolis effect.
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[on using biological stains] I hasten to remind you, you are biological
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Steve Russo, Chem 251
Cornell, Ithaca, New York
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submitted: January 11, 2003 |
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Electrons like to fill as many orbitals as possible before doubling up, like children on a schoolbus
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Bruce Ganem, Chem 359
Cornell, Ithaca, New York
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submitted: January 11, 2003 |
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Don't be an idiot, we have enough of them already
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Durrell, Sci 238 - Intro to Astronomy
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, On
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submitted: January 9, 2003 |
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Prof: "You don't have the word 'busking' in the states?"
Student: "Uh, no ..."
Prof: "So what do you call a guy who stands on the street corner playing a violin?"
Student: "Uh, we'd call him a guy standing on the street corner platying the violin."
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Some English Lit Prof, Victorian Woman Writers
ILACA Watford Program, Spring 1998, Watford, Hertsforshire (UK)
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submitted: January 9, 2003 |
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Engineering and Computer Science people make lots of money; Math people live happy lives
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Shockley, Math 3124 - Modern Algebra
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
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submitted: January 9, 2003 |
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Somehow, the price of clarity is complexity. ...Wait, are there any
philosophy students in the room?
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Sacks, Math 141 - Mathematical Logic
Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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submitted: January 9, 2003 |
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I'm pretty sure this is true . . . I wouldn't bet my life on it, but I'd bet yours
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Erik Guentner, Math 103
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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submitted: January 8, 2003 |
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Think of it as a review for the test, but this is all new stuff
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Feldman, Math 217: Differential Equations
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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submitted: January 8, 2003 |
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That's right, the Pat Buchanan algorithm. You start at the top and move right, until you end up at the last one
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I. Munro, CS 134 - Principles of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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submitted: January 8, 2003 |
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The technical term for this is 'Yuck'
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G.W. Oldford, Stat 231 - Problem Solving
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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submitted: January 8, 2003 |
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In my previous morning class, I convinced them that I'm not an asshole. I'm going to contradict that now
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Willard, PMATH 330 - Mathematical Logic
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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submitted: January 8, 2003 |
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MAPLE is very easy to use. You type maple, and press Enter. Then you type help.
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Stewart, Math 145 - Classical Algebra
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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submitted: January 8, 2003 |
Maple is a Symbolic Analysis tool developed at the University of Waterloo.
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