Anyone else have some wacky professors today?

Another BWOOOOOG article about our professors and their best quotes during the shopping period.

It’s here, it’s here, it’s finally here!

Let the games begin!

As the first week of the spring semester comes to an end, Bwog shares some of the most wild and noteworthy words we heard from our professors.

Here are the weirdest and most memorable things we heard from the first week of classes, in our semesterly opening remarks compilation.

Just a few days into the semester, Bwog shares the first words of our professors.

Bwog is the beginner’s mind.

You know it, I know it, we all know it – professors say the darndest things during shopping week. Well, they often say weird shit all year, but it’d be kinda cumbersome if we posted a “shit my professors say” every week. Without further ado, here’s what shopping students had to hear during their first […]

Send us those zingers your professors use to keep you in their class past the shopping period.

Professors have all break to think of a perfect first impression. Yet, they all choose to say this stuff. Here are the weirdest things we heard from week one of classes, in our bi-annual opening remarks post. 

In the beginning, there was class. Out of the chaos, professors materialized and said ridiculous things in order to keep your attention. Like the Greek myths of old, a professor’s opening lecture is meant to enthrall you and make you believe in something larger than yourself. However, unlike those Greek myths, these opening remarks were […]

We’re officially one week into the semester now – we’ve had all of our first classes, and all of our professors have had their shots at first impressions. These opening remarks range from the curious, to the sad, to the distressingly relatable. Rashid Khalidi, History of the Modern Middle East: “I know sleep is more […]

You enter the lecture hall (ten minutes before class starts – the earliest you’ll be all semester), take a seat in the middle a calculated distance from the door, throw a jacket over the chair next to you to provide a sufficient buffer between you and the next person. The professor swoops in and spends […]

Even though the harsh snows are yet to pass, can you feel it in your bones? A warm breeze; your limbs, unfurling from a cold hibernation; the reds and pinks of blooming acer palmatum, magnolia x soulangeana, and those berries you see in the bushes and then wonder if they’re edible or not. Every beginning […]