anyone else have some wacked-out professors?

[Bee09]

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ok so this is a REALLY funny story.

we just had our neuroscience exam and practical last friday, so today someone asked the professor (hereafter referred to as dr. l) how the grades were. so he said the average was around a 33/34 (out of 40 points). but then he says, "yeah one person got a 16/40.... and when i saw that, i thought wow, how can you have warm blood running through your veins and get a 16 out of 40 points?!)

so my first thought was, well that couldnt be me, b/c i'm pretty sure i only got 5 right. (seriously.....i just didnt study very hard for it but thats another story) then the girl who initially asked, says well, it might have just been their emotional state, etc. etc. and dr. l sort of pretended to be sympathetic.

anyway, there were only a couple of us in the room at the time, b/c it was after class and we had stayed behind to ask him questions. i personally didnt have a question, but i needed to ask him where his office was b/c i was meeting with him later that day (to talk about my grade in the class and how to improve, blah blah blah)

so he told me where his office was, and then i left and the meeting was half an hour later. and i was kind of dreading it, now that he had said what he said about that person, and since i thought i did much worse than them. so anyway i go to his office, and the first thing i said was, do you mind looking up my practical grade? (b/c they hadnt been returned to us yet and i kinda wanted to know what i got)

so he looks me straight in the face and says "16." to be honest, i was kind of relieved that it wasnt worse, but i wanted to make dr. l feel bad for being a jerk.

so i said, "yes well, i can assure you that i have warm blood running through my veins"

and he says, oh i was sooooo embarassed when i realized it was you, i just looked it up just now, i didnt realize you were in the room and i was so embarassed that i said that, blah blah blah.

the sad part is, i don't remember him actually apologizing 😡

not to mention, even if i hadnt been in the room, the fact that he said that about a student still makes him a jerk. right?

so, sorry for the long story....would anyone else like to share their sob stories to make me feel better? 😀

 

[Callogician]

so, sorry for the long story....would anyone else like to share their sob stories to make me feel better? 😀

Here is my story of sheer stupidity:

I had an anatomy exam the next day, and the MSIIs put on a display for us in anatomy lab. Each of the second year students studied a specific aspect of the anatomy we would be tested on, and the first years rotated from station to station, getting lectured and questioned. I had studied hardcore all day, and by the end of the demonstrations, I was physically and emotionally worn out.

One of my last stations was the radiology station. A second year named Ryan had set up a bunch of radiographs.

Ryan: ...and what are these? [pointing to large bilateral faint spheroid structures on an x-ray of the thoracic cavity].

I stood there dumbfounded with a gaping mouth and wide eyes like a deer in headlights. After 6-7 seconds of silence, my curiousity was sated.

Ryan: They're breasts

We both laughed heartily.

 

[MossPoh]

Not in medschool but I've had pretty ....interesting undergrad profs. One that dressed like a hippie and brought his guitar into class all the time...two phds (physics and computer science from MIT I think) then I've had the one that just never showed up....ever. There was the one that talked about kate winslets nipples in titantic.....no seriously. Yea and the list goes on.

 

[Hersey]

My senior design team (computer engineering at Iowa State ca. 2000-2001) had a really "interesting" guy as our advisor. He was roughly retirement age, married, with grown children. His clothing was mostly "normal" for his age and profession, but he had waist-length hair in a braid, multiple piercings in each ear, and two-inch-long synthetic fingernails (painted different colors on different days, no less). He knew his stuff (and unfortunately for us had a keen BS detector), but we never really did get used to his "style."

 

[tiger_lily]

I had a TERRIBLE first aid teacher once. She didn't know anything! I guess it didn't help that it was a bunch of paramedics and ER nurses taking a required course far below their level of training (long story). I don't remember all her blunders, but I do remember her asking us to "oscillate" breath sounds, and telling us that burns are more serious on infants and the elderly because they don't adapt as well, because they have less "adaptose" tissue!!! I kid you not. We weren't very gentle on our evaluation at the end.
I also had a hippy prof who always wore long flowered dresses and had big poofy hair. She taught an entire course on the Beatles! (Not that I was uh, padding my GPA, or anything). At first we all made snap assumptions on what the course was going to be like, but she ended up being one of the best profs I've ever had - brilliant, funny, caring, and a good teacher. The course was awesome!

 

[MossPoh]

My senior design team (computer engineering at Iowa State ca. 2000-2001) had a really "interesting" guy as our advisor. He was roughly retirement age, married, with grown children. His clothing was mostly "normal" for his age and profession, but he had waist-length hair in a braid, multiple piercings in each ear, and two-inch-long synthetic fingernails (painted different colors on different days, no less). He knew his stuff (and unfortunately for us had a keen BS detector), but we never really did get used to his "style."

It always seems to be the engineering/tech guys that are a bit "different" for me...