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"Bloom and Gerty are no Cary Grant and Grace Kelly."
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Stuart McDougal, Pound, Joyce & Eliot
Macalester, St. Paul, MN
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submitted: May 3, 2005 |
on the characters in Joyce's Ulysses
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Final Exam
Essay Question
What have you learned in this class?
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, Biocompatibility of Material
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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submitted: May 4, 2005 |
No joke, this is my final exam, i had no clue how to answer it.
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"Of course if the driver notices something wrong he can call someone on his mobile phone if the radio is not working; but if wagons become detatched, that's a problem because wagons don't own mobile phones and can't use them"
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Dr. Sarah Sharples, MSc Human Factors
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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submitted: May 4, 2005 |
In a lecture on psychology and accidents following several interuptions by students' mobile phones
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... with the help of some strange weirdo he met in the woods ...
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Nick Maes, Classical Studies 1: The Dities
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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submitted: May 5, 2005 |
Discussing the general form of folk tales.
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"Fun is math, and math is fun" -- said almost every class day.
"Listen guys, the bookstore is a crackhouse." -- on the price of text-books.
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Don D. Drew, MAT 1033
St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida
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submitted: May 6, 2005 |
On final exam day, a few students greeted him with the collary: "Math is fun, fun is math, and the bookstore is a crackhouse."
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"Bob, I need your finger."
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Dr. Craig Joseph, Observational Astronomy
St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, Florida
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submitted: May 6, 2005 |
The prof was always ordering his assistant, Bob, around. This was one of the more simple requests. (He was measuring something with a tape measure.)
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"Now I can just remove my balls..."
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Alistair Windsor, Real Analysis I
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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submitted: May 6, 2005 |
Talking about generalizing the definition of continuity from metric spaces to topological spaces.
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If an invisible person came in here and started having sex with me, I think I'd notice and be like, 'Hey, I think sex is happening here.'
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R. Wilson, Introduction to Philosophy
UMBC, Baltimore, MD
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submitted: May 7, 2005 |
The discussion was on the actual ramifications of certain "superpowers" like invisibility.
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Prof: [Throwing marker against whiteboard] See The angle that electron leaves the barrier from depends on the angle it is thrown from.[pause] A ball would show this better, but I left my balls in my office.
My Friend: I thought your balls were in the math department
[LONG PAUSE....then roaring laughter}
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Dr. Magnus Rittby, Classical Mechanics
Texas Christian University, ,
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submitted: May 8, 2005 |
Not that the ''I left my balls in my office" wasn't funny enough, but that may friend, without missing a beat, came back with that comment. See, the professor's wife is a professor in the math department. That prof is one of my favorites for his sense of humor.
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I’m engineering positive, you know like some people are HIV positive.
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Dr. McGinn, ELE 210
NIU, DeKalb, IL
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submitted: May 9, 2005 |
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There are a couple of shows I like; most of them are Girls Gone Wild.
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Dr. McGinn, ELE 210
NIU, DeKalb, IL
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submitted: May 9, 2005 |
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Wonder what I was doing before class...
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Dr. Joe Rohrer, Bio 195 Plants & Society
UWEC, Eau Claire, WI
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submitted: May 10, 2005 |
My Prof said this as he was picking a hair out of his mouth in front of our entire section
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This shrub is prostate, I mean prostrate.(Long Pause and Sigh) Yeah,as you all know, when you're a guy and you get to be my age they check you for that... and you finally know what it feels like for a woman to be violated.
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Dr. Joe Rohrer, Bio 195 Plants & Society
UWEC, Eau Claire, WI
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submitted: May 10, 2005 |
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You should all be careful,the stuff you kids do today isn't the same stuff that me and George Bush were smokin'...
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Dr. Joe Rohrer, Bio 195 Plants & Society
UWEC, Eau Claire, WI
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submitted: May 10, 2005 |
My Prof on Marijuana
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If that one was a dog, I'd shoot it!
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Mr. Buck, Discreet Math gr 12
Humberview, Bolton, Ontario
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submitted: May 11, 2005 |
Mr. Buck, commenting on a particularly inelegant proof that one of the students wrote on his test.
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Studying electrodynamics is alot like walking through a field of flowers; but not like poppies in the Wizard of Oz cause you would just fall asleep.
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Dr. C.A. Quarles, Electricity and Magnetism
Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
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submitted: May 12, 2005 |
Dr. Quarles is one of the most amusing professors I have met.
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"I've heard that some critics believe that James Barry was often called a pedophile... sort of like Michael Jackson today..."
"Well isn't Michael Jackson's house called Neverland?"
"Oh mine is too!"
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Ms. Cohen, AP English Literature
Ossining High School, Ossining, New York
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submitted: May 13, 2005 |
After watching Finding Neverland.
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"There's a good reason the word 'analysis' begins with 'anal' "
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
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"Oh, there's a chipmunk in there... I see"
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
In reference to an eraser squeaking on the chalkboard.
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"The fastest speed-metal bands don't resolve time scales much smaller than
ten to the minus 5 seconds... And they're not worth listening to anyway"
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
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"That's one of the great things about being up here-- you can torture
people with your personal miseries"
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
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"There's no wave-particle duality, none of this new-wave, feel-good bullshit. It's PARTICLES!"
"It's made very smart people say very stupid things about consciousness
and 'We're all One' [raises hands above his head]... It's all garbage"
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
on the ontological signficance of the wave-particle duality
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"Symmetry is a thread that leads to glory."
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
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"Sorry, I've been watching too much Princess Bride
lately"
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
(Nima draws six fingers on the hand forcing the oscillator, and
realizes his mistake)
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"Multiplying by 2 isn't my forte."
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Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Physics 15c
Harvard, ,
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submitted: May 14, 2005 |
Being one of the brightest theoretical physicists today can make basic math a problem.
http://www.physics.harvard.edu/nima.htm
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