Let’s be honest. For most of us, the first week of classes is actually pretty chill. We shop a few lectures, collect a few syllabi, and catch up with friends we haven’t seen all summer. Our professors, on the other hand, are desperately trying to hide the fact that they’ve thrown together their opening lectures in the past twelve hours. To distract their classes, they might open with a weird anecdote, try to make analogies to pop culture, or even throw memes into their slides. (That, or you’ll get a professor who’s been tenured for so long, they don’t give a shit what they tell students.)
Either way, we want to hear all of the weird things your professors say during this first week, when half of their students might drop their course at any moment. Send the wildest opening remarks you hear to tips@bwog.com or through our anonymous form, or comment them on this post. Don’t worry, we won’t tell your professors you helped us mock them.
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@Anonymous “I’m not a huge advocate for trigger warnings but I’m absolutely fine with content warnings.” – Jack Halberstam, Intro to Sexuality Studies
@Not an Urban Studies Major “I can’t live in the suburbs, I’m an urban sociologist!” -Aaron Passell, Intro to Urban Studies (the class that has to cut 85 people bc our lecture hall only fits 104)
@Bored in CS [As the class tried and failed to do multiple tasks at once as an ‘interactive example’] “Come on people, do better, THIS IS COLUMBIA!” -John Kender COMS W1007