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I don’t believe in the phrase “there are no stupid questions, all questions must be asked”

I have noticed that there are two types of stupid questions asked in class:

  • Questions which the inquirer already knows the answers to.
  • ******ed questions
The first kinds really pisses me off…the second amuses me.

Last week, this blonde (yes I had to say blonde) asked the Prof. “Like, Bacteria, do they like, have penises and vaginas?” The professor replied by saying no. Then the girl said, “Then, like, how do they reproduce, like?” I still can’t believe she asked that question….

Any stupid questions you’d like to share?
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Like, um, totally.
 
you mean the questions where they ask the professor, then go on to answer it with no pause? lol
 
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"is this going to be on the exam"
 
Character said:
you mean the questions where they ask the professor, then go on to answer it with no pause? lol
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lol..I've seen that happen many, many, many times...
 
rest assured, the stupid questions will continue in medical school. Especially "will this be on the test" and "do we have to have that whole page memorized"
 
Kid in my class: How come hair grows in thicker after you shave it?

Professor: It doesn't.

Kid: Then how come my facial hair wasn't as thick when I was 15?

🙄
 
Zakaqel said:
Last week, this blonde (yes I had to say blonde) asked the Prof. "Like, Bacteria, do they like, have penises and vaginas?" The professor replied by saying no. Then the girl said, "Then, like, how do they reproduce, like?" I still can't believe she asked that question….
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha oh thats rough.... Did she have to spend the rest of the class in the corner with the stupid hat? Or has she now just isolated herself so much from the rest of the class that she will likely end up dropping it?
 
In my MCAT class, there was a girl who asked classic questions. Like "What is that dot between the two numbers?" (it was the short hand multiplication sign 2*4). "What does the triangle over the arrows mean?" (Um, heat.) One time she started talking about how her "cat got spayed-ed." There were a lot of other things, but it was so long ago (fortunately).
 
Ashers said:
In my MCAT class, there was a girl who asked classic questions. Like "What is that dot between the two numbers?" (it was the short hand multiplication sign 2*4). "What does the triangle over the arrows mean?" (Um, heat.) One time she started talking about how her "cat got spayed-ed." There were a lot of other things, but it was so long ago (fortunately).
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Do we know what she scored lol?
 
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i sit in the front of class and ask about 1 question per lecture. what does that say about me?
 
This happened in an honors Organic Chemistry Class...

One kid asked, "what is dash sign above the Br?"
 
wow, that last one reminded me of some dumb questions i have asked... not in class (most of the time). like, why do some of the chemistry mechanism arrows have one hook and other have two? how do i know which equation to use for hardy-weinburg equilibrium: (p+q)^2=1 or p^2+2pq+q^=1? what do the variables A, R, and C stand for before the sin in that last equation (prof wrote arcsin).

:hardy:
 
ChubbyChaser said:
Do we know what she scored lol?
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I think she stopped showing up about 2 weeks before the test.

However, in our little icebreakers at the beginning of the class, we learned she once dance in a group thing with Britney Spears. ooooooo.... aaahhhh. I think she seriously expected us to be impressed, and this was in 2004 before she went totally bonkers.
 
Zakaqel said:
I don’t believe in the phrase “there are no stupid questions, all questions must be asked”

I have noticed that there are two types of stupid questions asked in class:

  • Questions which the inquirer already knows the answers to.
  • ******ed questions
The first kinds really pisses me off…the second amuses me.

Last week, this blonde (yes I had to say blonde) asked the Prof. “Like, Bacteria, do they like, have penises and vaginas?” The professor replied by saying no. Then the girl said, “Then, like, how do they reproduce, like?” I still can’t believe she asked that question….

Any stupid questions you’d like to share?
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Tell your professor that she's wrong. Bacterias do have penises and vaginas - they're called sex pili. The male bacteria has an appendage and the females have a receptor for the appendage on the membrane. It's the only way for them to transfer recombinant genetic factors.


-- Sorry, couldn't resist being a smart-***. BTW, stupidest bio question ever: "If sperm is mostly carbohydrates, why does it taste so salty?"
 
I like stupid questions...one girl got my paper pushed back 3 days because of it.
 
Not a question, but a comment made by a student in a neuro class.

Winey voice drawn out:

"It's just hard to think about neurrrroooonnnnssss.)

nice🙄
 
Margaux1985 said:
BTW, stupidest bio question ever: "If sperm is mostly carbohydrates, why does it taste so salty?"
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OH....MY....GOD....that has got to be the most absurd question. seriously, this is worse than the bacterial penises/vaginas. i pray that the person was just trying to be funny.....

now that i think about it, i probably would laugh uncontrollably if that was ever asked in one of my classes :laugh:
 
okay.......this is one of the stupidest things ive heard in a LONG time. and it was so awesome because:

1) the class has 6 people in it, so every single person heard him ask

2) it was right before we were going to take the final for the course.



So the prof hands out the test and the instructions for the first section read " True/False. Multiple-Choice. Fill-in-Blank"

The kid only reads the first two words of the instructions (True/False), but the first question happened to be a fill in the blank.

Confused, he asks "i dont understand how this is a true/false question? so i can just fill in the blank with any word i want and then mark it false?"



i laughed for a good 5 minutes...and so did everyone else. it was a good stress reliever right before the test.

this is the same kid who last semester asked our anatomy professor if the penis was a muscle.
 
[Student asking about high-intensity light beam being shot at plant cells]


"...but can light actually go into the cell? You know, like, pass through the cell wall?"

Someone a few rows back had a sneeze that sounded suspiciously like "photosynthesis."
 
One of the good things about teaching MCAT classes - you rarely hear the question, "Will this be on the test?"
 
From anatomy lecture:
"The functions of the sympathetic nervous system are often called the 'four F's', which are Fight, Flight, Food, and well... Sex"

"Um... but professor, Sex doesn't start with an F"

:wow:
 
Professor off on random tangent: When I had my wisdom teeth out as a kid it was awful. I was all swollen and stuff. I had to live off milkshakes for 2 weeks. Yeah, when I had them removed I must have lost about 15 pounds.

Front-row-Einstein: Wait, how much do wisdom teeth weigh?


👍
 
There is no such thing as "stupid questions".... only stupid people who ask questions.
 
tardyturtle said:
From anatomy lecture:
"The functions of the sympathetic nervous system are often called the 'four F's', which are Fight, Flight, Food, and well... Sex"

"Um... but professor, Sex doesn't start with an F"

:wow:
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Wait, I thought the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for digestion; hence FOOD.
and yeah sex really doesn't start with an F. It's an S😀
 
Jolie South said:
there is a verb that is synonymous with "having sex" that starts with F. 🙂
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Ohhhh you mean Frolicking




Clearly the 4 F's are, Fight, Flight, Food, and Fex

I love having Fex
 
Margaux1985 said:
-- Sorry, couldn't resist being a smart-***. BTW, stupidest bio question ever: "If sperm is mostly carbohydrates, why does it taste so salty?"
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Word on the street is that it's sweet...

hey i'm just saying 😀
 
Harry Bahgina said:
It's not a muscle? I have been exercising it all these years for nothing!
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There's a thread about this somewhere I remember... someone posting that they broke their penis bone.
 
Gpan said:
Wait, I thought the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for digestion; hence FOOD.
and yeah sex really doesn't start with an F. It's an S😀
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uh yeah, i thought that the parasympathetic system was involved in digestion...what aspect of 'food' does the sympathetic control? maybe repression of digestion?
 
In my high school senior English class, there was a girl who asked if Mexico was a country.
 
People in my political science class think that their bible is interchangable with the U.S. constitution. (I live in a very conservative town👎). The chick that sits behind me asked where she can find habeas corpus in her bible. 🙄

Oh, and in the same class, the prof. asked people what they did for Spring break, and one person said they went to Boston. The professor then asks how they liked Massachusetts, and the student replied with "don't know, never been there. is it nice?"
 
Anatomy class in college (we were talking about the intestines and such):

Girl in back row: "I was just wondering...how do we know the difference between when we need to poop and when we need to fart?"

*Entire class begins laughing hysterically*

Professor: (*Chuckles*) "Ummmm...I guess we just learn it eventually...I don't really have a scientific explanation for that..."

Girl in back row: "So...like...before we learned, I guess we all just pooped ourselves."

Professor: "Moving on..."
 
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