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"Remember everything. Forget nothing."
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M. Morrow, ECE 353 - Intro to Microprocessor Systems
UW Madison, Madison, WI
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submitted: June 20, 2005 |
Prof. Morrow on the key to being a great engineer. (circa January 2004)
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Chemistry 207 -- Everyone's favourite course(tm)
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Peter Livant, Chem 207 -- Organic Chemistry I
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
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submitted: June 15, 2005 |
This was on his tests and his syllabus as well, I think.
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How will your grade in the course be calculated? With my calculator. But seriously . . .
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Peter Livant, Chem 207 -- Organic Chemistry I
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
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submitted: June 15, 2005 |
| Rating: 10 |
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This is the part where chemistry starts to look like flowers.
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Peter Livant, Chem 207 -- Organic Chemistry I
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
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submitted: June 15, 2005 |
He was talking about something to do with dienophiles, alkynes, and the Diels-Alder Reaction.
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"What happened to the people who were bad at science? They went to law school. They went to law school because they couldn't pronounce 'Electrophoresis'".
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Dr. Martin Tracey, Human Genetics
Florida International University, Miami, FL
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submitted: June 15, 2005 |
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"Whenever there's something in physics that we don't understand, we call it 'chemistry."
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Professor Fraden, Intro Physics
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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submitted: June 11, 2005 |
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"Anyone who fails to do so will be sought out by the registrar and shot."
"Don't believe me? Then get the hell out of here."
"But we can't do that anymore, because some of your parents are attorneys."
"...And that was before I was expelled from Band."
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Professor Foxman, Intro Honors Chem
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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submitted: June 11, 2005 |
The Best of Professor Foxman Collection
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| Rating: 10 |
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juggling is easy just look
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Ronald Jones Professor of Biological Sciences, Cur,
Eastern kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
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submitted: June 11, 2005 |
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"...so it makes sense to spend all your money on socks and ramen."
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Yong, Math 61
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California
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submitted: June 9, 2005 |
While using packages of ramen and soapy socks in an example of optimization (where the function being optimized was H(r,s) = happiness from r packages of ramen and s pairs of soapy socks)
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| Rating: 10 |
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If being immature was a class, Dave, you'd be the Valedictorian.
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Mr. Jaffess, Economics
Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
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submitted: June 8, 2005 |
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"N-O-W: No!"
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Mr. Jaffess, Economics
Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
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submitted: June 8, 2005 |
hehe... Mr. Jaffy can't spell.
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I tell ya, if I wasn't married . . . and if she wasn't a lesbian . . .
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Dr. Langford, Great Books II
Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
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submitted: June 6, 2005 |
Somehow he got off on a tangent about this friend of his whom he apparently thought was hot.
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"we had an error yesterday because I forgot to open the pig's wings."
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Dr. Jaszczak, Physics 1
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
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submitted: June 3, 2005 |
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"...Grad students, tech support, and men. They'll eat anything, any time, anywhere."
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n/a, n/a
York University, Toronto, Ontario
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submitted: June 2, 2005 |
Catering staff discussing how to dispose of extra food after a meeting. They're right...
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You have a B-- in the course so far, if you do better than average on the final you might be pushed into B- range.
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Michel Barsoum, tDEC 211-Materials 1
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
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submitted: May 31, 2005 |
When asked how well someone needed to do on the final
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student: I hate programming. I hate trouble shooting. Why can't it just work?
teaching assitant: You hate programming, you hate troubleshooting, then what are you doing in IT? Have you considered Art?
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Graduate Assistant Cher Stanley, Fundamentals of Database Client/Server Connectivity
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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submitted: May 23, 2005 |
During a java/database programming midterm-practical a student kept raising his hand asking for help. After his rant the TA replied with the above question/advice.
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with music he would say that it is equally valid if you listen to "chic a chic a chic a chic a chic a chic a chic" or if you listen to mozart
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Prof G.A. Locke, post kantian philosophy
university of oxford, ,
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submitted: May 22, 2005 |
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Johns Hopkins University: Where you best hasn't been good enough since 1876
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Everyone, Motto
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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submitted: May 22, 2005 |
This is a motto we students live by
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"There comes a point where the learning stops and the suffering begins"
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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submitted: May 22, 2005 |
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"That's such a bad idea it's not even wrong."
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Dan Schrag, Earth and Planetary Sciences 8
Harvard University, ,
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submitted: May 22, 2005 |
I don't even remember what he was talking about--something to do with the Paloecene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
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| Rating: 10 |
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The derivative of e is as the firey phoenix, rising up from its ashes to be born again.
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Jake Manske, Calc I
ISU, Ames, IA
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submitted: May 22, 2005 |
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"You can USE a cliche; just don't let the cliche USE you."
S. Can you give us an example of how one might "use" a cliche instead of the cliche using the student?
"Sure, a guy walks into a bar with a piece of asphalt under his arm. He says to the bartender 'Gimme a shot ... and make it one more for the road'"
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Marianne Trale, Composition
University of Pittsburgh, Pgh., PA
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submitted: May 19, 2005 |
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"Now imagine, for instance, that you are lord chubb of chubb hall.."
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Prof. G.A. Lock, post-kantian philosophy
university of oxford, oxford,
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submitted: May 19, 2005 |
describing the individual's need to construct himself in a particular way - in this case in relation to status and obligation - in some of Sartre's theories
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| Rating: 10 |
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"All right class, before we unleashed the full powers of Calculus on this problems let's look at this aspect first."
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Prof Zablow, Multivariable Calculus
Rochester Institute of Technology, ,
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submitted: May 16, 2005 |
Good times ...
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"Calculating the square roots of negative numbers is one of my favorite pasttimes, along with parenting and skiing."
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Edward Taylor, Multivariable Calculus
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
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submitted: May 15, 2005 |
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