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.
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@put these on culpa! Post these to CULPA also so they will remain forever in famy!
@Prof. O'Faherty - Urban Economics “In other Economics classes they teach you that bonds are important. I teach you that going to the bathroom is important, which it is!”
@okay... 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!
@...yes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXwEBp3cKfM
THIS video of louis armstrong, to be exact…benelli is fantastic
@richard billows “One can imagine a person’s arm getting somewhat tired after awhile if they’ve been stabbing dead bodies over and over again.”
@Haha I’m going to miss Prof. Billows.
@Best Conclusion: No Competition 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.
@PTC = awesome Ha, was just going to post this! “Some French guy” = Flaubert, btw.
Total agreement about the course.
@balmer is amazing in so many ways.
@Hah From Musatti in principles “If i were a man they’d say, ‘oh he has balls!'”
@Nuriel Moghavem Professer Firestein played this on the last day of class in Neurobiology I in explaining the sense of smell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1wufZsZgKA
@Maura Spiegel—British Literature 1950 to Present (trying to think of some final thoughts) Ummm…..I like you?
@:) “The only reasonable explanation was that the fairies were using cobalt salts”
John Magyar, Inorganic Chemistry (discussing Sleeping Beauty)
@Theories of the Universe “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)
@Anonymous Graciela Chichilnisky, Seminar in Microeconomic Theory:
[no comment]
(i.e. she didn’t show up)
@bc '11 “Conclusions are stupid.”- Peter Connor, Introduction to Translation Studies
@Professor Andijar's ears must be burning 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.”
@Anonymous This speech actually made my day.
Professor Balmer=awesome
@wait 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?
@Cows go.... “bovine flatulences…yes, cow farts” (in talking about the causes of the Greenhouse Effect)
– Professor James Applegate, Astronomy
@Mormonism Okay, everybody. Um, have a nice life!
– Randall Balmer, Mormonism
@Bruni “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
@Person At least that will be one thing I wrote that my professor read.
@Cell Biology Liz Miller: My favorite chlamydia story is —
GS Student: You must have a lot of them.
– Awkward pause –
@and then... Naive Undergrad: Well how did the koalas get chlamydia?
Dr. Miller: Koala Sex.
@2xDegree “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
@oh “I’m never teaching this class again.”
-Ryan Chaney, The Road
@m if this were facebook instead of bwog, I would “like” this.
@Phallus. 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
@cc'10 vincent is the best.
@Harmony Hunter so does anyone have any insights into where I can locate this building?
@alas it seemed like just yesterday the first remarks were posted… kinda like this first remark… whattup!!!!