The Emails I Get ...

[User 11148]

Final drop day for the summer session is tomorrow. Got this one in the email inbox today ...

"Hi professor, can you tell me what my average is? I need to decide whether to drop tomorrow."

They've had two tests.

And it's a statistics class.

 

[Ace]

Final drop day for the summer session is tomorrow. Got this one in the email inbox today ...

"Hi professor, can you tell me what my average is? I need to decide whether to drop tomorrow."

They've had two tests.

And it's a statistics class.

I'm guessing that's a drop.

 

[swingline]

Hi Professor,
How the **** do we get off this island?
-- Gilligan

 

[Donny in his element]

Take this Hillary thread to the Politics one, dammit.

Oh.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Did you e-mail back and say that you can't answer because if you do it will be mean?

 

[Songbird]

Did you e-mail back and say that you can't answer because if you do it will be mean?

Nah, professor replies are triggers. Can't be having triggers.

 

[Buck]

I've told this anecdote before, but I had a student wander into my office many years ago during my first spring semester at the community college.
I was administration, not faculty.
Kid is looking for his final exam.
I asked him what class it was, but he didn't know.
I asked him the instructor's name, but he didn't know.
I asked what subject it was but he didn't know.
I wanted to tell him there was probably no reason for him to even take the final exam

 

[da man]

Did you e-mail back and say that you can't answer because if you do it will be mean?

Math jokes are SO funny!

 

[Fly]

I've told this anecdote before, but I had a student wander into my office many years ago during my first spring semester at the community college.
I was administration, not faculty.
Kid is looking for his final exam.
I asked him what class it was, but he didn't know.
I asked him the instructor's name, but he didn't know.
I asked what subject it was but he didn't know.
I wanted to tell him there was probably no reason for him to even take the final exam

He don't know? Should've directed him to third base.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Math jokes are SO funny!

I find them integral to good humor

 

[da man]

I find them integral to good humor

Well played.

 

[Vombatus]

Did you hear the one about the constipated math professor?

He worked it out with a pencil.

 

[Fly]

I find them integral to good humor

Let's not get onto a tangent here.

 

[User 11148]

Indeed ... I prefer to operate on a higher plane ...

 

[amraeder]

Let's not get onto a tangent here.

Because it's clearly what all the ladies wanted, I had a stable of math-based pickup lines in college. Forgotten most of them. One of them was the very classy "what do you say we go back to my place so I can get tangent to your curves."

 

[Buck]

I have a close friend who is a community college history instructor.
He had assigned Sinclair Lewis' 'The Jungle' on his reading list, and a student claimed she could not read it because it was causing her to have nightmares and experience stress.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I missed an exam once, and told the professor my absence was due to a sperm-retention headache.

 

[User 11148]

Because it's clearly what all the ladies wanted, I had a stable of math-based pickup lines in college. Forgotten most of them. One of them was the very classy "what do you say we go back to my place so I can get tangent to your curves."

Coupla years ago the internet exploded with rage over some risque Halloween costumes for women. One of these was a very fetching doctoral gown, with hood, mortarboard, etc. Many of the comments were priceless, but my favorite was ... "Care to join us in a little three-way ... ANOVA?"

 

[Ace]

I have a close friend who is a community college history instructor.
He had assigned Sinclair Lewis' 'The Jungle' on his reading list, and a student claimed she could not read it because it was causing her to have nightmares and experience stress.

If she worked at a meat-packing plant -- or a newspaper -- that's probably legit.

 

[The Big Ragu]

If she worked at a meat-packing plant -- or a newspaper -- that's probably legit.

That is what I was thinking, but I didn't post it. ... The descriptions of immigrant life and the struggling to survive and the conditions in the slaughterhouses could conceivably cause someone to have nightmares.