It's a textbook case
Got any amusing errors from class materials? Odd sentences? Whatever? Putt 'em here.
I found this sentence in the history reading for tonight and thought it was pretty funny. Enjoy. “A belief in a rational, steadily improving universe sustained Wedgewood through the childhood deaths of two of his eight offspring, the amputation (without anesthetic) of a diseased leg and his agonizing death at age 64 from a diseased jaw.” Yep, rigor mortis sure helps to keep a stiff upper lip. |
I have reams of amusing/weird/slightly dirty things my professors have said in class. I published them in the campus paper for lack of better ideas for columns.
Personal favourites: "It's hard to get a feel for cleavage" - in reference to cleavage planes in crystals, with accompanying hand gestures. "You can also get cleavage with alcohol" - regarding ability of alcohols to cleave carbon-carbon bonds. The prof saw me snickering from across the room. |
Nothing too bad, but here's one I did on purpose (note: my math teacher loves J. Judy)
Angle C = fish Because Judge Judy said so! Needless to say, I got that question wrong |
Well, Anglesey is an island, and you can go fishing from islands, so you answer isn't at complete right angles to being right.
(It's highly likely that I'm pronouncing Anglesey wrong in my head, but if necessary we'll pretend it's correct for the sake of a pun.) |
Back in the fifth grade, if I hadn't done the reading for lit and it said something like "name the three major plot points in last night's text...", I'd just write:
Bob, Joe, Ed. |
I remember I got tired of in-class essays once in English class and I wrote an essay about why essays were stupid. He actually graded it. I didn't do too badly either.
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I have a list of things students have said. Here's one of my favorites, from a 7th grader:
Me: Now, as I read this article aloud, I want you to jot down your thoughts on it, and then we'll discuss it. C: Mrs. Dean, what's a thought? |
Heh. I've known some kids in my highschool classes like that.
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"Okay class, what's the world's largest WAN?" (A concept gone over two minutes earlier.) Class: Uh... Me: Ooh, pick me! 5 Minutes later, after the answer's been given: Oh, the Internet! Me: *banging my head against the keyboard* |
KillerGM's English Teacher: It's like calling sombody a Nazi because they MIGHT have been in Germany in the Nazi empire!
Student (not KillerGM, who is a history major): Mr. Ryan, what's a Nazi? |
Sa'ar's Organic Chem Prof: Is anyone except Sheila actually paying attention here?
Sa'ar: Sorry, what? |
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How can you defile it with that...sais name... :evil: :P |
Wow, less than one page and the original point is long gone.
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Gaelic's almost as bad - whoever transliterated it into the Latin alphabet must have had a few slugs of the Water Of life in him (musta been a Sassenach). |
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*shrug* At least a reasonable imitation of one.
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Myself and a friend had a theory that our English Literature teacher didn't actually read our work, as he had a knack of neglecting mistakes. For a joke, my friend handed in an essay that started like this:
"King Lear was a play what was wrote by Shakespeare. he was a really kool playwrite who write lots of plays in the middle ages." ... And he got a B. ~~Lostoyannaya |
I once handed in this essay for an assignment to write about our impact on the enviroment:
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I thought it was a wonderful essay! You should email it to the Whitehouse. Through some kind of secure server from an anti-Apache hellicopter bunker :wink:
~~Lostoyannaya |
I'm not that stupid. They'd send me hunting with Cheney.
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Laugh Out Loud and a Half! What a comeback. What a tragedy. What a vice-president. :roll:
~~Lostoyannaya |
Hey, at least you don't have to live with his riegn of terror. No, wait, we did that already. Hmmmm....name sugestions?
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It doesn't need to be named. We all know what you mean anyway.
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But the history students of the future won't. How about "Administration of horror"?
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As a student of history, I say it is totally irrelevant about names. That being said, I am merely bitter about being made to memorize various Italian names, such as...Partito Nazionale Fascista.
What about "Pointless Throning of Administrative Errors"? ~~Lostoyannaya |
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Okay, something else to add to the thread...um...another conversation with a student (same initial, but a different kid). (Sorry, most of my stuff is verbal communication rather than written.) Students were working on skits. C came up to me and said, "Okay, this is going to be a weird question, but which way is west in this room?" Me: (not wanting to take the time to figure out when the sun is where) "I have no idea, sorry." C: "Oh, that's okay. Wait - do you know which way is north?" |
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Yes, at my school we were tought MLA and standard essay format back in fourth grade. I've been doing it since, off and on.
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My system is similar
I'm in the Canadian Catholic School system (that does NOT mean I'm Catholic!), and it's different in some instances, but it's pretty much the same as every other North American system example: Quote:
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What is MLA? I've never heard of it.
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In our backward little English school, we do not use any heading. We hand in the piece of work and spend half of the next lesson helping the teacher figure out who's is who's. :D (Mine's always the one with the doodles). But...yeah...what is MLA heading? *Is curious* ~~Lostoyannaya |
Modern Language Association. It's one of two organizations that has established standards for formatting written work (among other things). The other is APA, American Psychological Association, which I *think* is used mainly for graduate work and beyond - MLA is used, in the US at least, as the standard for everything up to that point. (It's possible that there are certain fields of undergraduate work that require the use of APA rather than MLA, but the division I've experienced is what I've posted. Also, it sometimes depends on one's professors as to which format is expected.)
APA includes "American" in its title, so I'm assuming its use is restricted to the US. And since those of you who aren't from the US are indicating a lack of familiarity with MLA, I'm guessing the same about it. |
In science, we tend to write research papers and not essays, and the standards we follow vary from journal to journal. The American Chemical Society has a template, the Royal Society of Chemistry has a different template, and Elsevier has a third.
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The title specifically involves:
Student Name Mr./Mrs./Ms Teacher'slastname Class Date of writting. (or is it due date? Don't remember.) |
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So? You could lie. I don't, but you could, scum.
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I could, but that would have required effort. |
Not really. Just put a different date.
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