(Student gestures to equation and asks, "How do you know that's a horizontal
asymptote?")
"What do you want it to be, a cat?"
--Prof. Marco Avellaneda, Calculus 1
"The Russian government tried to westernize these areas. For starters, they
forced women there to remove their veils. And many of these women were
stoned. Hm, by which I mean they had stones thrown at them, not, you know.
Although who knows?"
--Prof. Yanni Kotsonis, World Cultures: Russia
(referring to a painting) "I like this. It's crispy."
--Michael St. John, Introduction to Painting
"Oops, that had my name on it. I'd rather remain anonymous."
--Ariana Huberman, referring to a piece of paper on which she had just deported
a dead cucaracha out into the hall, Advanced Spanish Review
"Once one cluster of cells, or node, is activated, it activates associated nodes.
(drawing) So here's a node, here's a node, here a node, there a node,
everywhere a node node."
--Prof. Mayne explains the spreading activation model, Intro. to Psychology
"Some people don't like the smell of menstrual blood. I don't think it has an odor."
(Class responds with embarrassed silence.)
--Allison Leitch, Human Cultures & Societies
"And remember, be ready for Marx on Wednesday. Although, are we ever ready
for Marx?"
--Prof. Friedrich Ulfers, Conversations of the West: Antiquities and the 19th
Century
"And we find 11=3 and we can all go home and stop worrying about math
because it doesn't make sense."
--Prof. Fred Greenleaf explains binary and base ten systems, Quantitative
Reasoning
"You should stop me when I do something stupid."
--Prof. Eric vanden Eijnden, referring to a graphing error on the blackboard, Calculus 1
"Crack is Whack!"
Professor Lowe in reference to a mural uptown. Con West.
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