eccentric professors

[aubieRx]

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What was your most eccentric professor like? Most of mine have been rather ...level.. but there have been characters.

The most notable of which was a freshman year biology professor who wore scary giant sweaters

and brought a digeridoo to class to play it for us

and then there was the blind literature teacher who would spend the whole class finding every sexual reference possible in the works we studied.

oh and the history professor who basically gave everyone a free A or B and would leave every class to go play golf while we watched old movies on vietnam. 😀 he even had a grad student to push the play button

i love to hear stories about silly/eccentric/insane professors. 😀

 

[crossjb]

I had a math professor once from the University of Chicago who was brilliant, but would utter "Goddammit!" under his breath any time a student interrupted his lecture with a question. He might've had a mild case of Tourette's...

 

[aubieRx]

i'd want to buy him a beanie baby bunny as a gift . i think someone who gets that worked up about math needs more baby bunnys in their life

 

[All4MyDaughter]

I had one prof who was known for being eccentric and an easy A. He was an anti-establishment poet and good friends with Hunter S. Thompson. His classes filled up fast but I was able to get in one semester. There were 50 people registered. Full room. He signed in another 50 something students. Told us, obviously this room is too small, you guys are better off skipping most of the time. All the textbooks were optional. There were 5 three page papers, all due the last day of class. He gave us topics to write on but we were allowed to change the topic if we wanted... I think he eventually got fired.

I had a blind professor who had a seeing eye dog. The dog would sometimes get up and pee on the table leg. Once the dog threw up. I had this prof three times (he was a great lecturer) and one semester there was a deaf girl in the class and she had her own interpreter who sat in the front of the room. The dog was obsessed with the interpreter and always wanted to sniff his armpits, nuzzle his legs, etc.

Another professor was also known for easy A's and for being foul-mouthed and lot of fun. He had a blow up doll in his office. He gave us points for coming to class in costume. I dressed up like the Black Knight from Monty Python. Once my friends and I were walking near the building where his office was and we heard pounding coming from a second floor window. This prof was waving at us and shaking his butt as he pressed it up against the window. Thank god he was fully clothed at the time.

 

[aubieRx]

I had a blind professor who had a seeing eye dog. The dog would sometimes get up and pee on the table leg. Once the dog threw up. I had this prof three times (he was a great lecturer) and one semester there was a deaf girl in the class and she had her own interpreter who sat in the front of the room. The dog was obsessed with the interpreter and always wanted to sniff his armpits, nuzzle his legs, etc.

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LMAO

you truly had some wild ones (bum showing one beats all Ive heard)..makes my sweater digeridoo guy seem pretty tame

 

[All4MyDaughter]

LMAO

you truly had some wild ones (bum showing one beats all Ive heard)..makes my sweater digeridoo guy seem pretty tame

Yeah, I had fun in college. Maybe too much fun!

 

[aaron31981]

My favorite was Dr Yui Tim Ho. He taught genetics and his email was "[email protected]." First day of class he said we could call him anytime and gave us his home phone #. He said he would be up until 4:00am watching porn. This was in a class with 75% females.
He always emphasized to not marry your first cousin. He married his first and 1/2 cousin (parent's cousin) and that was O.K.

I miss that class 🙁