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Today marks the moment people have been waiting for since the semester started: the official last day of classes. There will shouts of joy for classes ending, tears of sadness for leaving your fondest professors, and groans of misery when people realize exams start in just two days. And amidst all this hullabaloo will, of course, be professors saying the darndest things.
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@Gerald Curtis Japanese Politics:
“I have this weird hobby of reading yellow pages from phone books.”
@Prof. Saliba On the final: “Like the kids from Lake Wobegon, all of you will be above average.”
@Bruce Cronin, American Foreign Policy The final is a take-home and Cronin was telling us group work/cheating is not permitted. To give us an incentive not to cheat, Cronin goes on to say “If you’re Jewish or you’re Catholic, this will eat away at your soul for the rest of your life. So don’t do it!”
Loved the class by the way. Cronin rocks!
@Macro Xavier didn’t teach the last lecture!!! He was stuck abroad with the flu, or so he said….
@Stem In CC:
Student: Descartes did not have a light beaming from his chest.
Professor Graves: No, he had a stove on his ass.
@Dylan Thurston Not really an end of class remark, though it was connected to the snazzy last day proof of the Prime Number Theorem: “When you stand up in front of a group, your IQ drops about twenty points.”
@lalith make sure that on this final you do the best. the other finals aren’t important like this one.
@Stephen D'Alessio “This might take longer than expected. You can leave, I won’t be offended,” Prof. Mike Shaevitz — Phys I
@Prof. Donague Instead of heartfelt life lessons, my stat professor spent 10 minutes making it very clear that he wasn’t afraid of failing anyone.
@granted the example he gave was of a student who didn’t turn in three assignments in a row and ended up withdrawing unofficially from the class for family reasons. So it wasn’t quite as intimidating as he may have liked.
@Me My University Writing teacher was giving a heartfelt speech about how we were her first class and how she wouldn’t forget us and how she was blessed to have such a great group of students, while one student directly in the front of the classroom was not only fully asleep but snoring very loudly.
@Will PRICELESS
@Prof. Gulati was giving a really stirring speech on poverty in the third world to his principles of econ class. About how Columbia students are in positions to do something. “I used to think that the last lecture was so I could sleep at night…Turns out it’s not. It’s to make sure that you don’t sleep well at night.”
@not a freshman I don’t think I’ve heard that one before….
@It was a fantastic lecture.
@meh he does that every semester. i was moved too, until i found that out. my friends (all took him different semesters) were basically able to recite it verbatim.
@Ken Jackson always amazing. love his “editorials”
@ken jackson is the man. the coolest teacher ever. and absolutely amazing class. one of the best at columbia.
@K.T. Jacksons class I kind of hand a lecture planned for today, but I think I will just start talking and maybe some editorial later.
@Wow Way to completely botch the quote.
“I had a lecture planned for today, but I think I’m going to just go for a little more of a stream of consciousness type thing now.”
@My Professor said that our final will be cumulative :(
@Ken Jackson absolutely amazing today. blew the entire class away.
@literally he pretended he was a wind storm, flapping his arms and blowing at our backs as we exited the lecture hall.
@Hmm, After that 9/11 documentary any of his editorials would have blown the class away. I haven’t seen people cry in class since I came to Columbia.