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#139 Up↑ /116 Down↓ [Flagged] 2009-03-30 04:44 EST
Prof. Madden: I know the readings for this class could be time consuming... if you tried to do all the readings for this class.
Harvard student: The reading didn't really bother me as much as the programming part.
Prof. Madden: Well that shows that you're a Harvard student. -
#58 Up↑ /134 Down↓ [Report] 2009-02-20 13:45 EST
//Discourse on extra term in Maxwell's equations were magnetic monopoles to exist
Prof McGreevy: ...here, I'll write it on the board in purple, because purple is the color of unicorns.
* class giggles after disbelieving pause *
Prof McGreevy: No, really. Magnetic monopoles are like unicorns - they're perfectly reasonable things, but no one has been able to find them. -
#176 Up↑ /243 Down↓ [Report] 2009-04-06 00:06 EST
// McGreevy on spectroscopy, unknowingly quoting an SNL skit:
So you take a box, and then you cut a hole in the box...
*class laughs nervously*
and then you put some atoms in the box.
*class laughs louder*
Wait, why's everyone laughing?
// an email to the class later that day:
Thank you to the students who clarified what was so funny in lecture today. -
#345 Up↑ /10 Down↓ [Report] 2009-11-23 20:29 EST
//Prof. Lee on two bodies moving apart in space exerting attractive forces on each other
Prof Lee: We only care about the attractive conservative forces at work here. Can anyone tell me another name for these forces?
*pause*
Lee: No one? Alright, its Sarah Palin. That's the best joke your getting all semester. -
#137 Up↑ /30 Down↓ [Report] 2009-03-30 04:40 EST
// From Sidney-Pacific Family Feud study break, on March 15, 2007
Host: Name a gift from a special someone that's difficult to return.
Contestant: STDs?
Host: Name something a man might make his girlfriends feel guilty about.
Contestant: Not playing video games? -
#83 Up↑ /143 Down↓ [Report] 2009-02-26 02:35 EST
Fellow Sophomore: . . . you aren't taking this very seriously.
Sueshep: Lasto lalaith nin.
Third Person: Wait - did you just say "Listen to my laughter?" In Elvish?
*we stare at him*
Sueshep: Um. Yes.
F.S.: You know frickin' _Elvish_?
Sueshep: Only at MIT . . .
