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Tomorrow is the last day of class and therefore probably the first day on which you’ll actually be paying attention in class, and Bwog would, again, be most appreciative if you could keep your ears peeled for anything funny, sappy, or just plain bizarre that comes out of your professors’ mouths. You can send in interesting quotes as a tip to tips@bwog.net or drop us a line in the comments section below. We look forward to hearing from you!
Update: Oh and please tell us professor name and course name!
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@I took this class... History of Racializations
@I took this class... last semester, and I love Prof. Okihiro and all, but I want some of what he is having. he must know all the good dealers in town. don’t get me wrong, he’s an intelligent man, but sometimes, you know, gotta have that ganga to understand where he’s going.
@CC '12 “Ok so we’ve got 20 minutes of class left. It’s really about time we stop discussing my drinking problems and get back to Dewey.”
-Evan Neeley, CC
@AMAZING Frances Negron-Muntaner: ” Does anyone know what love is? Love is thinking about someone else other than yourself and that’s it. It’s been great to teach all of you now it’s time for our 5 minute salsa lesson!” She then proceeded to turn on her ipod to Celia Cruz and made everyone stand up and dance salsa.
@AMAZING The course name is Intro to Latino Studies
@Anonymous Professor Gary Okihiro’s final address to History of Racializations in the US class:
I want to thank you all for being part of this class. It’s been an immense privilege for me to spend a semester with you and I don’t know where you’re going to go or what you’ll do, but I wish you well in whatever you do.
I want to leave you with just one thought, which hopefully is a means by which to dissect our condition. I think I told you about..did I tell you about this 12th century monk, Hugo? (murmurs of “no”)..No? ok. This 12th century monk…12th century!…in Germany…actually this is from our colleague Edward Said, recalls this story and I have it in my book Island World. It begins with this person who is comfortable at home, is yet an infant…A person who goes to a foreign place and makes that comfortable is…OK. But a person—I’m paraphrasing by the way (chuckles of laughter)—but a person is perfect to whom the whole world is as a foreign place. Now if you were to think about that…that the comfort zones of our existence, whether there are these boxes of race, gender, sexuality, class, and nation, help us or shield us from things around us and give us sort of comfort in that sense. But they can also be prisons of our own making. And if you go to another place and make that foreign place yours, it might be an imperial project. But if we all consider ourselves as aliens, as visitors to this earth, in which we need to share this space with one another, if we think about ourselves outside our boxes, as always foreign, as always alien to ourselves, it may help us to recede even familiar places like Columbia University, like our dorm room, like our families and so forth—to rethink those kinds of things from outside those boxes. Not to say that you can’t return to them, but that one needs to, I think, move outside…and then you can move within.
So, wherever you go, tread softly on this earth and know that hopefully people will follow you. Thank you so much.
@How is this funny?
@Anonymous Didn’t mean for it to be comical…just worth sharing. He’s a great man and it’s a great class.
@CC '13 “The only thing I will be able to do with a PhD in native american studies is teach or write. Instead, I am going to start a TV show where I go around NYC and fix the grammar on street signs and call it punc’d”
-Adam Spry, University Writing
@SEAS '12 “I love [‘The Rock’ starring Nicholas Cage] because it’s one of the only movies where there is a chemist who carries a gun. He’s a biochemist, which is like the dark side to organic chemistry.”
– Scott Snyder, Organic Chemistry II
@BC '13 “All of you function very well in the academic world, but the real world is very different. And that’s that. Oh, and if you want to see your grades in a timely fashion, I have no control over this. This is all controlled by Oz, some place.”
-Peter Bower, Environmental Science II
@--- literally the most useless course in existence.
@BC '13 Haha, perhaps. But baller, nonetheless.
@happy student CC Instructor: “Guys, would you be ok if we postponed our CC paper until next friday and not this one?”
Student: “I will marry you.”
CC Instructor:”Are you American?”
Student: “Yes!”
CC Instructor: “This may work…”
@amazing lol
@Actually... her reply was more along the lines of “That would be very useful to me…” (She’s Canadian)
But, yes, so funny!
@Happy student thank you for the correction! she is lovely
@Anonymous hahaha yes!!! this was awesome
love our class
@Literally The tooliest most asinine group of comments I’ve ever read… Love Bwog.
Captcha: ovations box
kinda like the opposite of a bwog comment box
@senior wisdom... where art thou?!
@it sounds like some sort of dessert. like FroYo, but… with science.
@it sounds oops that was in reply to the post about calling Frontiers “FroSci”
@GAWD noobz
@Anonymous bert huang, object oriented programming and design (1007): Computer science is one of the few scientific and engineering disciplines where you can actually build the things you study. If you’re a physicist and you build a particle accelerator, you might create a black hole. And then you’d have to fight off time-travelers.
@Hey, what if it’s your dream to fight off time travelers? Some of us have spent a little too much time watching Dr. Who in college…
I’m off to build a particle accelerator.
@hmm I don’t know about you, but there’s one particular time traveler I would much rather jump than fight off. The Daleks can be exterminated later. And then later again. And then again.
@... I officially love you for loving Doctor Who.
I miss David Tennant…
@yeah... I did too until about 30 seconds into the new series.
@yeah... I did too…until about 30 seconds into the new series.
@... I can accept Matt Smith as the new Doctor, but the sexiness of DT will never be surpassed.
@hmm agreed, agreed.
@o m g WHOVIANS ON COLUMBIA’S CAMPUS? WHERE DO I FIND YOU I NEED A SUPPORT GROUP AHHHH.
@Agreed! I’m so tired of all my friends knowing every fucking detail about Lost, but none of them have seen Dr. Who at all (even though its amazing and they would all love it).
Also, while David Tennant will always hold a special place in my heart, and I was determined to hate the new Doctor, Matt Smith is pretty damn awesome. Not quite David Tennant amazing, but certainly a great replacement
@CUSFS You need to check out CUSFS.
@Anonymous Last year they waited until Saturday evening to give housing assignments. Move in was Monday. So….yeah.
@Anonymous I think you’re talking about interim housing
@Anonymous Nope. Summer Housing.
@SUMMER HOUSING HAS ANYBODY WHO APPLIED FOR SUMMER HOUSING ON CAMPUS HEARD ANYTHING AT ALL? I HAVENT EVEN RECEIVED AN EMAIL WTF IS GOING ON?! have you guys?
@I AM PANICKING AS WELL. I HOPE I HAVE SOMEWHERE TO LIVE FOR THE SUMMER.
@relax yeah it takes a ridiculously long time for them to give out assignments. and I’ve never heard of people NOT getting summer housing… I think there’s usually enough for everyone
@Hans They told me I’d receive my assignment “by the 2nd week of May”.
@Following up Oh, hey, Bwog staff. Still nothing on the Carmen incident of two weeks ago? Who’s restricting your freedom of press, Bwog?
@CC '12 It’s spelled C-a-r-m-a-n
@No no no This was an incident involving someone named Carmen.
@Anonymous Christia Mercer, Philosophy and Feminism: BE QUEER!!!! love this woman :)
@Best Closing Remarks Ever Christia Mercer accidentally ended her History of Philosophy class with a College Humor video of girls dancing in their underwear. Took like 60 seconds to shut it down. Her closing remarks included a lot of panicked swearing. Uber classy. Awesome course.
@Anonymous I love Mercer. I was so disappointed to hear that she will not be teaching many classes for the next two years.
@THAT WAS AN A++ MOMENT “I thought you all were applauding ME!” (after finally realising that she’d let the girls-in-underwear thing run for a good 57 seconds)
@Lit Hum with Christia was absolutely incredible. love that woman.
@Frontiers of Science (not actually said at the end the semester, but at the end of his FroSci run)
Prof. Stuart Firestein: “Alcohol and sex, just remember that. That will be the main answer on the final exam from this set of lectures. If you get that right you’ll be ok.”
@Am I old? Do you CC’13ers call it “FroSci” now?
When I was your age, we called it “Frontiers”.
Let me go clean my dentures now.
@CC '12 I called it Frontiers of Shit.
@agreed FroShit is the new acronym.
@yeah and by that I mean abbreviation.
@Anonymous fronTEARS of science.
@CC'13 Yeah apparently upperclassmen think this is weird. ’13 has been calling it Fro Sci for most of the year though. Seems like a natural thing to name it ala Lit Hum
@ewww Fro Sci sounds so weird. Frontiers FTW!
@NONONONO It’s FronSci not FroSci! FroSci, that’s just awful.
@FronSci!? FronSci sounds like an STD.
“I’m sorry, Jim, but you’re FronSci positive. I can recommend a few FronSci support groups.”
@Well STD or FOS, a “FronSci” support group sounds like a good idea.
@2011 We called it FroSci too. Sorry 2013 go claim something else
@CC'13 wow, insecure much?
@2010 pathetic. all of you. “frosci” or “fronsci” are as lame as can be. It is Frontiers because it is not deserving of an abbreviation–especially not one that tries to make it sound “hip” and frontiers is already a shortened name for the undeserving class. and it is already 2 syllables. lit hum is shorter than “masterpieces” which would be short for masterpieces of western literature or “literature” which would be short for literature humanities.
god. so not worth discussing.
@CC11 I do not know anyone who called it FroSci… It was always frontiers
@Actually I did, but only because we had a lecture on how to grow the best afro.
@compromise Front-Scien (pronounced like Front Sign)
@Anonymous Jenny “Emma” from the Varsity show is super cute! Best part of the show.
Drums were overbearing.
@vshow WAS THE SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!
captcha: the encore
’nuff said