Psychology Prof to a bunch of 20-something grad Master's students:  "One, two, three! Eyes on me!"
Grad student in the back of the room: "What are we, four? I think not!"
Psychology Prof stands there stunned.

It's like drugs! That's why they're called broker-dealers. I know that. No it's not me. It's in the family ( Read more... )

Specialized translation (this is a French-to-English translation class class):

"[about "madam"] DO NOT put a final "e", because a "madame" is a woman that runs a business, and it's probably a business you don,t want anything to do with. And no I'm NOT explaining if you don't know what I mean!"

From my philosophy of psychology professor:

"I once went to the zoo and witnessed a chimpanzee wiping its ass with a rabbit."

I LOVE my financial and legal translation teacher

"I see a therapist. You're all thinking 'Ah" She's got a LOT of reason to see a therapist!', uh? You ARE! I can totally hear you! Yes, I'm hearing voices in my head."

"Any other questions like that, that I won't be able to answer?"

It's been a while since I've posted anything here, but I've been logging interesting quotes from my professors in my notes all this time. Unfortunately, I have to find them first. Here's what I do have:

Art History:

*during presentation about Ancient Greek art* "And I think we've all come to the same conclusion: yes, the Greeks liked their fit ( Read more... )

"This is 'legal language', you find your fun where you can ( Read more... )

"wikipedia is like a public toilet...you can use it but only very carefully."

"let's go to the beaver...I love the beaver..." ((he had a picture of a beaver in the powerpoint because we were discussing the fur trade in the americas...he proceeded to lecture for a good fifteen minutes with this giant picture of a beaver behind him... it was great.))

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I can't stand my history class, but the professor is pretty amusing. He's Brazilian, epic accent included, and looks like a Sim.

"How many of you have seen Conan the Barbarian? Two? What kind of education are you preople receiving?!" *proceeds to pull up a clip on youtube* "This is the height of American cinema."

"Sworn...sworn? Is that the past ( Read more... )

Hiya. I'm a language double major so all of my quotes are from my foreign language classes ( Read more... )