Weird Professors

[wisconsindoctor]

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I tell ya, some of the weirdest people I have ever meet in my 26 years on this planet have been college professors. The stories I can tell are endless.

Today I took some time to look at the backgrounds of all of the professors I have had during college. Before I looked up the backgrounds, I listed the professors who I thought are weired and the professors that I thought are normal. It turns out that the all of the professors that I thought are normal have worked a real job (not some academic dweb their whole life) before or duing being a professor. The professors that I thought were weird went the track of undergraduate school, graduate school, post-doc, and then becoming a professor. The most ackward professors I have ever meet have been the ones that are tenured.

It seems like a very high percentage of college professors still behave like children and don't take any responsibility (I would fire a good 80 percent of the professors I have had if they worked for me).

Anyone else have a similar experience while in college?

 

[Cegar]

What's your GPA?

 

[TehDoc]

The weird ones will always surprise you.*

 

[Tired Pigeon]

I tell ya, some of the weirdest people I have ever meet in my 26 years on this planet have been college professors. The stories I can tell are endless.

Today I took some time to look at the backgrounds of all of the professors I have had during college. Before I looked up the backgrounds, I listed the professors who I thought are weired and the professors that I thought are normal. It turns out that the all of the professors that I thought are normal have worked a real job (not some academic dweb their whole life) before or duing being a professor. The professors that I thought were weird went the track of undergraduate school, graduate school, post-doc, and then becoming a professor. The most ackward professors I have ever meet have been the ones that are tenured.

It seems like a very high percentage of college professors still behave like children and don't take any responsibility (I would fire a good 80 percent of the professors I have had if they worked for me).

Anyone else have a similar experience while in college?

I think academia is more tolerant of "eccentric" behaviors & personalities (read poor interpersonal skills) than private industry; thus is becomes a haven for some individuals who aren't comfortable operating in any other sphere. Strong social skills are also rewarded to a much greater extent in the private sector. In most companies, who gets promoted: the well-like "great guy" who knows how to get things done as part of a team, or the weird guy who spends the day muttering to himself in the corner? In academia, I just think there isn't the same incentive to polish one's interpersonal capabilities.

Before anyone jumps in citing the exception to the rule: of course this is a generalization, and I know it doesn't apply across the board, but in my experience it's true more often than not.

 

[sully677]

My teacher lines up his chalk, and then chooses the tallest piece to use. Is that weird? haha

 

[AeroNat13]

One of my teachers loves dumpster diving. And encourages us to adopt alternative lifestyles.

 

[Jolie South]

my greek mythology professor wore a green velvet suit. not a day would pass where he didn't mention pederasty or show us a piece of ancient art that depicted it.

 

[ChubbyChaser]

My history professor foams at the mouth, and I was also walking with him one day and he pointed out his wife and casually says "shes really ugly, isnt she??"

WTF?!?!?! how do i respond to that?? haha


O and my Inorganic professor spends alot of time correcting his own grammar, very weird.

 

[Cegar]

my greek mythology professor wore a green velvet suit. not a day would pass where he didn't mention pederasty or show us a piece of ancient art that depicted it.

When in Greece.

 

[Zorrix]

My history professor foams at the mouth, and I was also walking with him one day and he pointed out his wife and casually says "shes really ugly, isnt she??"

WTF?!?!?! how do i respond to that?? haha

i'd say...um..she's umm..fairly good looki...wait a minute is that her face? I thought she was looking the other way..😀

 

[justme456]

My sociology professor was pretty crazy. She would run around the room and make weird noises. Every lecture was filled with all sorts of odd random behavior.

 

[anomalous738232]

my physics professor sent us an email the day before our first midterm:

when in the forest, you & a friend come across a hungry bear. it is not important whether or not you can outrun the bear, what matters is if you can out run your friend. the moral of the story is you don't have to do well on the exam, just do better than everyone else.

i thought it was cute-- but weird.

 

[Bacchus]

my physics professor sent us an email the day before our first midterm:

when in the forest, you & a friend come across a hungry bear. it is not important whether or not you can outrun the bear, what matters is if you can out run your friend. the moral of the story is you don't have to do well on the exam, just do better than everyone else.

i thought it was cute-- but weird.

At the paintball park where I work we tell people this, hahaha. (To outrun/trip the guy next to you)

 

[Cegar]

 

[kedrin]

first day of calculus class my professor walks in looking like he hadnt taken a shower in 3 weeks and smelt like it too. Also his collared shirt was inside out. OH and did i also mention that he had dry erase marker all over his face?!?!

he was a total ***** and i switched to a different section lol....

 

[Bacchus]

I had one professor that ran and jumped so much in class that when she was pregnant we were afraid for the baby--she was out of control.

I have a biochem and pchem professor that is the most unorganized man in the world. Constantly loses his laser pointer and needs to borrow dry-erase markers from students, hah. He's a good guy, but scatter-brained.

 

[Cegar]

I had one professor that ran and jumped so much in class that when she was pregnant we were afraid for the baby--she was out of control.

I have a biochem and pchem professor that is the most unorganized man in the world. Constantly loses his laser pointer and needs to borrow dry-erase markers from students, hah. He's a good guy, but scatter-brained.

I bet if you manipulated the equation generated from the scatter of his brain with a few natural logs you could get a straight line of dots and then he would plot a line through them.

 

[Bacchus]

I bet if you manipulated the equation generated from the scatter of his brain with a few natural logs you could get a straight line of dots and then he would plot a line through them.

Ugh. This reminds me of this 1/2 hour lecture we watched today in Genetics lab on Fractals. We had to compares the theme of fractals to DNA. It was mind-numbing. We were in lab to "learn" peer review.

 

[135892]

I bet if you manipulated the equation generated from the scatter of his brain with a few natural logs you could get a straight line of dots and then he would plot a line through them.

ok....

 

[aemed724]

My sociology professor was pretty crazy. She would run around the room and make weird noises. Every lecture was filled with all sorts of odd random behavior.

lol that would creep me out, while my math teacher doesnt make noises he's always talking to himself while teaching the class haha 😛

 

[metalgearHMN]

In most companies, who gets promoted: the well-like "great guy" who knows how to get things done as part of a team, or the weird guy who spends the day muttering to himself in the corner?

i believe you have my stapler...

Seriously though, in the finance world, if you're a Quant you could get promoted even if you're crazy.

 

[iA-MD2013]

i believe you have my stapler...

Seriously though, in the finance world, if you're a Quant you could get promoted even if you're crazy.

classic

 

[time md]

I had a history professor who would talk to himself during lecture. The funny thing is that he knew some 8 or 9 languages and would use a different one every time. I always had the feeling he was mocking us. I also had a math teacher who looks as if he shaves with a jagged piece of glass. He always came to class with little squares of toliet paper stuck to his face. It was hillarious.

 

[olemissbabydoc]

my physics/oeganic professor writes only in green dry erase marker. he writes EVERYWORD he says on the board, so I've only seen the guys face about 6 times over the last year.

he also doesn't have us wear gloves in lab. go figure. crazy loon.

 

[Cegar]

my physics/oeganic professor writes only in green dry erase marker. he writes EVERYWORD he says on the board, so I've only seen the guys face about 6 times over the last year.

he also doesn't have us wear gloves in lab. go figure. crazy loon.

So you can really feel those chemicals react.

 

[futuredrcrawfor]

My Ecology professor took us out for a lab to the woods right after a thunderstorm... then proceeds to tell us Ecology is dirty biology and starts jumping in mud puddles and splashing us- I was fine cuz I wore field clothes but one girl had a VERY nice ivory pea-coat get mud all over it!

He also did a runway modelling show of the fetal pig dissection smocks (had a pig with all anatomy printed extremely large on it)

He also rides his bike to campus and keeps it crammed in his office

However- he is one of my favorite professors- I am actually travelling with him in May to Belize for study abroad- who knows what crazy memories will come from that triP!

 

[GoldShadow]

I love xkcd.

 

[RapplixGmed]

I love xkcd.

Best stuff ever! PhD and Control Alt Del are really good too.

 

[metalmd06]

My Pre-calc professor was an awesome guy and a great teacher, but he was probably one of the most dishevled men I've ever seen in my life. I've seen bums that were neater than him. He would come to class looking like he spent the night in his office contemplating theorums. His hair stuck up and he shaved maybe once a week. His shirt was always mis-buttoned and never fully tucked in. The leather elbow pads on his tweed jacket were half peeled off. And every time he walked along the blackboard he would turn around to reveal a white chalk dust stripe across the front of his pants. Later on during the week we'd often realize from that very white stripe that he was wearing the same pants.

 

[Drogba]

haha awesome.