RetroFedC-can some cross-disciplinary humor be permitted in this comm? š„ŗ
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Which ones?
1, 2, 4.
I had some āBack in 1968, I thought I could change the world, and you have to think that tooā types, but they were all pretty progressive and tech-savvy, lol.
I had The Old Man. He decided to use scantrons for the first time in his career when I took his class, and he really liked option E) None/All of the above.
Office hours with the Survivor: canāt tell if Iām learning or providing free therapy listening to this man talk about physics through analogies about his old government murdering all of his family and friends
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The survivor one was the best.
I took every history course this professor taught even though I was a science major.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alireza_Shapour_Shahbazi
Most of my college professors had very little impact on my life. His classes fundementally changed how I understand the world to this day.
I had a math professor from Nigeria
The dude spoke like 6 different languages, but when he first came to America, he barely spoke a word of English (which is how he ended up in math, numbers work the same in any language, and probably why he was really good at teaching math)
But the dude had seen some shit in his day, and weād occasionally get some absolutely insane lore drops about armed militias and such rolling through his village, Iām pretty sure he spent some time as a child soldier, heād occasionally get a little nervous if he heard a helicopter fly overhead, etc.
Iām glad he taught math, because like I said, he was really good at it, but man, I would have just signed up for a class to hear him talk about his life.
I had a calculus professor from Haiti.
He spoke with the thickest African / Caribbean accent Iāve ever heard.
After 3 classes I found myself paying the most attention Iād ever paid trying to just understand his words.
Aced his class, I auck at math and school generally, but the struggle to understand his words turned into āunderstanding his wordsā
I had a sociology professor with a British/Jamaican accent and it was always interesting to hear him speak
I had an engineering professor who grew up during the Iranian Civil War. He was interesting, and while the anecdotes were rare, they were crazy
Tag urself Iām Mrs Frizzle
WTF is a ābloomerā tho
I only know that as a type of underpants ā¦
iirc, itās the opposite of a doomer
I think, itās just used as in ālate bloomerā, so someone who needed a bit longer, but now found their true potential. āBloomā as in the thing flowers do.
I donāt see how that explanation makes sense in the context of the ābloomer"ās description in the post ā¦
Well, if he just got his tenure at 40, that means he presumably did something else in his life before tackling this path. Him saying the students can just call him Jeff is also maybe linked to him having still been a student until recently. I assume, itās a case of this being funny, if you actually study history and know a professor like that. š«