What Funny Things the Professors Have on Their Office

Title says it all.

Below is a list of real life professor quotes from my start semester at Oberlin. Allow me say, though, that these were all jokes, and meant as jokes. None of what follows reflects upon how academically challenging my classes are, or how supportive and kind my teachers are. It but shows a fleck of their fun side. And if a class is fun, you'll look forward to it, be motivated by it and end up learning a lot more from it. So enjoy!

• Do you know what 24-hour interval it is today? Information technology'south September 23rd, the day that Frodo and Sam set out on their journey to destroy the Ring. Music Theory
  
• Allow's contrast this with a squirrel. Philosophy
  
• Who wants a chocolate biscuit? Classics
  
• Someone's head is leaking. Music Theory
  
• It'southward a C, run across? Composition
  
• What you want, what you want - I've got it. Music Theory
  
• I'm easily bribed. Presents can be left in my part. Classics
  
• Sense making? Questions having? Ongoing permit us. Be. Music Theory
  
• (Upon looking at a slice I'd written): As Schoenberg said, a composer'south best tool is the eraser. Composition
  
• What is the plural of cow? Kine, of grade. Music Theory
  
• I wouldn't desire to live in a virtual reality, even if information technology was a really fun i, like Zelda. Philosophy
  
• This time, it'south Purcellnal. Music Theory
  
• I'grand going to do something that I hope will misfile you. Limerick
  
• When a miner falls downwardly a mine-shaft, what key do you become? A apartment minor. Y'all guessed it - Music Theory
  
• There may be a significant of life, merely I don't know what it is! Philosophy
  
• Tongue in cheek, in what sense? Whose tongue is in what cheek? Classics
  
• What are you doing if you compose 12-tone counterpoint? You're putting your dux in a row. Composition (this is a really, actually music geeky one - sorry.)
  
• In a past life, I was a failed comedian. In this life, I am a successful comedian. Music Theory
  
• Overall, how-do-you-do. Never permit anyone maintain that I'thou a linear thinker. Composition
  
• What the heck was going on with all those nuns? Philosophy
  
• Finish smiling. It'due south time to acquire. Music Theory
  

So, in between being dead intellectual and serious, we get these little rays of sunshine. Not that the rest of the lesson isn't sunny too, but you know what I mean. It's kind of like realising that you lot're eating a raspberry jelly edible bean when you were expecting a plain old crimson apple 1. Life merely gets better. Also, Knowledge + Funny = Power^2. My profs have really got me under the thumb. And if there's 1 thing they are not, information technology's crusty fusty academics. Thank god.

But I've got to give yous the other side of the story. Here'due south an example of the frustrating side of profs: grading. In ane class, I have consistently been given the same class, and very like comments, on three papers over the course of this semester. Each time, I tried extra eeextra difficult to better in the ways that he had suggested, went to office hours for communication, and each time, apparently, failed. I am currently decorated banging my head against a wall, in betwixt comfort bingeing on dried fruit and bananas. Simply I did enjoy the annotate maxim that my latest essay made him 'dizzy'. I take that fully as a compliment.

My inner apple, upon hearing that its intellectual efforts had been for cipher.

A student said to me the other day that what y'all actually larn to exercise at college is larn what your professors want you to practice. She may have a point! But let'due south not be cynical. I'thousand still an optimistic, excitable first-year. The complaining can wait. All of my profs are mega helpful, if sometimes ambiguous. There and so should be a major in 'Professor Interpretation Studies' - I need it.

Plus, I take this all far likewise seriously. Because sure, a petty subjectivity creeps in here and in that location - nobody's perfect, right?

The moral of the story here is: Grades Schmades!

Turn that frown upside down and stick a plastic spoon in it. Afterwards all, it's near Christmas! Mmm, orangish peel hair. I guess I should actually practise some work now...

An exciting matter happened today. It snowed!! Oberlin - snow?! To be honest, I idea I'd be drowning in it by now, just no such luck. Sod that global warming.

OK, it'due south pretty pathetic. But however! Narnia is one step closer!

To all those international prospies scared about the astringent weather at Oberlin: this is your respond.

Let'south continue the incoherence of this mail service with some extra-curricular entertainment, courtesy of Music Theory 101. We really watched these in form. I'chiliad non fifty-fifty lying.

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It's finals week, guys - we're allowed to procrastinate. And so finally, on the 'animals do the funniest things' theme (woops, have just realized this may only be a U.k. TV show. Oh well) - here's a recent headline from Scotland. 'Story of the solar day': see, we Brits have our priorities sorted out.

Happy Christmas everyone!!

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