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Finally, blissfully, it’s that time again. Today is the last day for (approximately) half of your classes, and your professors should have something to say about it.
As always, please send the sweet/sad/insane words they send you off with to tips@bwog.net or post in the comments thread.
10 December 2009 @ 2:07 AM · 33 comments
I lost some matte green Ray-Ban sunglasses during the last night of Senior Week revelry outside EC. If anyone finds them, take pity because they were the only thing that fools people into thinking that I’m cool. One delicious burrito dinner reward for their safe return. Email sar2160@columbia.edu if you know anything.
Name: Emily Selinger, lost 5/10 somewhere at Senior Ball, gaslight, or 1020. ess2168@columbia.edu
Found in one of the couches in the Wallach Sky Lounge. Returned to Hartley Hospitality Desk.
Dark blue-green plaid Old Navy jacket and green scarf. Misplaced in EC on April 30. If found, please email abc2160@columbia.edu. Thank you!
PointMobl Black Retractable Micro USB AC Phone Charger. Lost it in Hartley lounge. E-mail: nnamdi.nwaezeapu@gmail.com
Lost a Black High Sierra backpack containing a white binder and a red pencil bag in Ferris Booth Dining Hall on Wednesday, April 25th, around 7:30 to 8pm. It was left on a chair in the second floor in a table around the middle of the room close to the staircase. If spotted someone taking it or found, please call immediately at 208-964-6780 or email rm2999@columbia.edu
Light blue, hardcover. Beginning Level. Lost last Tuesday in the Barnard 2nd floor women’s bathroom.
If found, please contact jac2295@columbia.edu
Lost a Blackberry Bold from Verizon Wireless at ADP on Saturday night. If found please email rsf2121@columbia.edu or call 601-994-3697. There will be a $$ reward!!
These were lost potentially on philosophy lawn on the evening of April 17th. The earrings are large silver flower cutouts and the mood ring is a blue band with small flowers inset. Both are old with a lot of sentimental value attached. Would greatly appreciate their return if found. Please contact on2139@columbia.edu/
646-496-3613, will reward with home baked goods and eternal gratitude.
Droid II Phone without any particular markings. Possibly left at the street fair or in Math. Contact cw2453.
it seemed like just yesterday the first remarks were posted… kinda like this first remark… whattup!!!!
so does anyone have any insights into where I can locate this building?
I like Lacan. He slaps you in the face with…? The phallus.
Pause.
It’s the last class. I don’t care what I say.
Vincent Aurora, French Cultural Workshop
vincent is the best.
“I’m never teaching this class again.”
-Ryan Chaney, The Road
if this were facebook instead of bwog, I would “like” this.
“I don’t know why the discussion board failed, but it–it BOMBED. That’s the way it goes.”
-Stephen Garfinkel, Survey of Biblical Lit I
Liz Miller: My favorite chlamydia story is –
GS Student: You must have a lot of them.
- Awkward pause -
Naive Undergrad: Well how did the koalas get chlamydia?
Dr. Miller: Koala Sex.
“Remember in doing your evaluations to be constructive with your comments. professors really do read them and work off of them, and it’s best if your teacher is not crying in the closet. So constructive, not cruel.”
Prof Lindemann, Science of Psychology
At least that will be one thing I wrote that my professor read.
Okay, everybody. Um, have a nice life!
– Randall Balmer, Mormonism
“bovine flatulences…yes, cow farts” (in talking about the causes of the Greenhouse Effect)
- Professor James Applegate, Astronomy
Randall Balmer, Religion in American Culture:
“If you’ll allow me a personal note. Today marks the end of my first 25 years of teaching at Columbia. And I want to thank you for that, and I mean that. On my first day of teaching, I showed up to class and there was no one there and it was devastating, right out of grad school. And so I thank you for that. Without you, I’d probably be stuck teaching Introduction to Comparative Religion or something stupid like that.”
This speech actually made my day.
Professor Balmer=awesome
how is nobody at a class? does that mean nobody registered for it?
yo, he said his first class was 25 years ago. pretty sure SSOL and the modern online registration system were not in place back then. maybe people signed up for a class by going on the first day. who knows?
“Conclusions are stupid.”- Peter Connor, Introduction to Translation Studies
Graciela Chichilnisky, Seminar in Microeconomic Theory:
[no comment]
(i.e. she didn’t show up)
“So this could all point to an anthropic principle. Or it might signify that we all just have too much time on our hands. And with that, the course ends!”
Joseph Patterson, Theories of the Universe (Astronomy)
“The only reasonable explanation was that the fairies were using cobalt salts”
John Magyar, Inorganic Chemistry (discussing Sleeping Beauty)
(trying to think of some final thoughts) Ummm…..I like you?
Professer Firestein played this on the last day of class in Neurobiology I in explaining the sense of smell:
From Musatti in principles “If i were a man they’d say, ‘oh he has balls!’”
is amazing in so many ways.
Professor Connor, in his translation studies class, started out saying that “Conclusions are stupid.” and then proceeded to quote some French guy about how “Stupidity consists in wanting to conclude.”
On a side note, Intro to Translation Studies (which won’t be offered again until next fall) is one hell of an awesome course.
Ha, was just going to post this! “Some French guy” = Flaubert, btw.
Total agreement about the course.
“One can imagine a person’s arm getting somewhat tired after awhile if they’ve been stabbing dead bodies over and over again.”
I’m going to miss Prof. Billows.
Prof. Benelli of History of Architecture fame ended the class by playing a video of Louis Armstrong singing “Bare Necessities”. I’m gonna miss his cute Italian accent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwEBp3cKfM
THIS video of louis armstrong, to be exact…benelli is fantastic
“In other Economics classes they teach you that bonds are important. I teach you that going to the bathroom is important, which it is!”
Post these to CULPA also so they will remain forever in famy!