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Today — as you are all no doubt incredibly aware — is the last edition of your T/TH classes. This means all your T/TH professors will be saying hilarious, touching, inspiring and bizarre things to wrap up the semester.
As per our tradition, we want to know what your professors say as closing remarks! So, email transcriptions to bwgossip@columbia.edu or just use the comment thread.
Paul Kockelman, Intro to Language and Culture: “That’s what she said.”
Severin Fowles, Origins of Human Society: “Wait for the coming revolution, in whatever form it may take.”
Haroon Moghul, Intermediate Urdu:
“So over the break I want you guys to write a one page essay about yourselves. Use the vocabulary I’ve given you.” (the vocabulary has all come from medieval poetry)
Confused student: “So you want us to talk about frogs, parrots and magic?”
HM: “Listen I don’t care if you’re stoned when you write this, I love absurd stuff. But wait…don’t do drugs.”.
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@achille varzi In symbolic logic- on not teaching logic next semester:
There will be plenty of logic for those of you who fail misersably…and want to take more logic
@dan miron Dan Miron ended his class by telling his students that they could have turned in drafts of essays all along to resubmit for higher grades…Whoops! that must have slipped his mind during the semester!
@Nick Turro He thought this student eval was amusing and shared it with us:
“If I had just one hour left to live in my life, I would want to spend that last hour in Professor Turro’s General Chemistry lecture, because an hour in one of his lectures is like an eternity!”
@Anonymous Haroon is amazing.
@joshua cody music hum: “i may not even be teaching here after next semester…hopefully”
@um... no, he said “that’s what she said” before launching into a long discussion on the phrase and THEN said “this could backfire” before a kid in the class said “that’s what she said.” so you’re wrong. k thx bye
@but so he MENTIONED “that’s what she said”. didn’t use it to refer to any specific phrase, michael scott style.
@wrong paul kockelman did NOT say, “that’s what she said”. he said, “this could backfire” and this kid in the class said “that’s what she said.”
@ANTH 1007 Severin Fowles just ended his class “Origins of Human Society” by telling us to sign up for the sequel course “Rise of Civilization,” which he subtitled “The Fall of Civility.” He then told us to “wait for the coming revolution, in whatever form it may take.”
I was, have been, and will continue to think Sev is the dreamiest, most dashing guy in the world.
@Babies! Our Professor’s wife just had twins. We got him a card and chocolates. He came 5 minutes late with more chocolate, 2 hours of sleep, and a declaration of postponing Locke until January. Everyone was giggling and “aw”ing and eating chocolate as he gave us a brief run down of the final exam and the names of his new children. Class lasted about 25 minutes. We still had to turn in our papers on moral obligation, but we’re all staying on for next semester.
@What do call a political version of me?
A PUNDIT!
@Gypped My professor didn’t even show up.
Again.
@OK folks! See you Tuesday…
@What happens if your grade changes after the semester’s over?
Your professor’s re-marks!
@good god in heaven make it stop!!!
@charlie brown AAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
@Wait I don’t get it.
@I secretly love you.