Hallo :) I'm Armand, a 3rd year German major with a linguistics minor. This semester I'm taking German-English Contrastive Grammar, the professor for which is Dr Born. She's this older (quite round) German woman whose voice is continually hoarse from years of smoking. About 90% of my notes from her class are just things that she's said, and not ( Read more... )

CLASS: The French Revolution and Napoleon

PROFESSOR: Were any of you in my History 359 class last term? Early Modern France? No? I always have a hard time convincing students to take that class.
STUDENT: Well, it doesn't have the word 'revolution' in it.
PROFESSOR: Ah, good point. Maybe I need to figure out how to get The Three Musketeers in

My Contemporary World Problems professor is a bit of a crazy cynic and he's come out with a few gems so far this semester that have made me crack up ( Read more... )

It's the start of a new semester and I've got three quotes for you guys.

ART 218 (Metals and Jewelry-making 1)

Prof.: "Now, up here next to the phone in the room we've got all kinds of useful numbers. Campus police, hospital, emergency, fire, campus police escort service. And no, it's not that kind of escort service ( Read more... )

 English lectures, stupidly early on a Wednesday morning. We were reading Shakespeare’s The Tempest and discussing it in relation to ecocriticism. All of us, knackered, bored, and then Kevin (lecturer, remarkably direct) comes out with:

“Prospero’s fighting a war with hedgehogs!”

Cue the lecture going “What?!” It certainly made it a little more

 Medical School Pharmacology. This guy tends to be rather sarcastic and never cracks a smile....

we were discussing morphine, codeine and other opiates.

"In the early 1900s, Bayer, the same company that makes your aspirin, advertised diacetylmorphine as the first non-addictive form of morphine. Today,  we call it heroin." 

So I just found the book I used for most of high-school and the first semester of college to record amusing quotes from my teachers. I'll post a few every now and then. Some of them I can't remember the context for, sadly.

1. My Physics class in 11th grade. All of these are from my Physics class.
Teacher: "Now, for example the classroom won't ( Read more... )

My American professor at the university in France where I'm studying abroad this year was talking about a literary text to do with Hiroshima. He was talking about focalisation (whether the text has the viewpoint of one character, several or an omniscient narrator etc.) and explaining that the character could -know- the others were in pain by seeing ( Read more... )

I have the same prof for my Old Icelandic course as for my Modern Icelandic course. I name him Lupin. This is of no significance.

Yesterday we were working on Auðunr þáttr in Old Icelandic. In it, Audun has to meet King Harald of Norway because he's bought a bear. He goes to see the king and tells him that he's taking the bear to King Sveinn of ( Read more... )

Today is tuesday, so it's Financial translation day!

"Whenever I write "share" I think of Cher and I have music and flashing light go through my head." *she makes a "cuckoo" sound*