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Yeah, it's interesting because my behavior was understated and nothing to even point out. He chose to point it out simply because he wanted something to say to me. Other kids in the class seemingly spend their time talking just to get to punch-lines and REALLY joke around without point or substance behind it.
I only said something that made people chuckle a little bit, nothing crazy, on-going, or inappropriate. Maybe you had to be there? Though, you didn't have to be there to know that the professor DID ask me if i was on drugs. Under any circumstance, especially after-the-fact, I think that question is off-base. He was just trying to upset me and make me feel below him. Well, it worked, because I am upset that he would ask it. Mostly I'm upset because I never would have dreamed that he could have come to such a conclusion. It was strange to hear him say that. I bet the look on my face was priceless when he said it; I probably looked like I had just sucked on a lemon. "We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond." - Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration |
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All I said was something like, "Though Wisconsin is known for dairy products, Green Bay Packers fans, Vince Lombardi, frozen tundras, cheese, etc....we felt the best way to attract people to our state was to NOT use cheese." And then I went in to my spiel... It got a little laugh and it was a sensibly humorous thing to say. Nothing wild, nothing drug-induced. I hardly even remembered making a joke, until the professor made that comment to me... "We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond." - Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration |
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I can't imagine that somebody would ask that question after such a simple joke. Maybe you did something you weren't aware of? Why didn't you ask him why he'd think that?
Did you talk with one of your colleagues to find out if anybody else thought that you were acting goofy? Nobody here will be able to give you a useful answer, and it seems the back-patting you were apparently looking for isn't going to happen, either. |
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Oh, and we were shown an ad that was just like our "It keeps the milk white idea" which had the tag-line, "no sense makes sense. The ad we were show was from Honda, I think, and their tag line was, "It doesn't make sense to use, either." Hmmm... "We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond." - Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration |
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Some people's version of "humorous" is other people's version of "inappropriately distruptive". I know someone who thinks that Jim Carey is the funniest thing since sliced clown, but to many of us he is the king of over-the-top in-your-face love-it-or-piss-off annoying people. When he talks about doing his "Jim Carey" bit I have to bite my tongue. He just won't understand how the guy can be annoying because he thinks that he's being funny.
Funnily (and punnily) enough, I look back at my zany years and wince at the times I thought that I was being incredibly clever when in fact I was being incredibly sophomoric. Tasters choice. Chris I'm sure you remember your early days when your posts were regarded as being annoying by the board's regular members... a MACintosh GEEK par excellance. While you're the most-improved player in that department I suspect that it's possible that you just might still be a bit wild and zany at times and just not realize it when you get going. It might take twenty years to calm you down... maybe never. So while your Prof might've been an asshat, it might be smart if you didn't regard yourself as being 'without sin'... we humans tend to be generally unreliable when relating our behavior to others. The fish get bigger, we get stronger, braver and more heroic. My advice is to talk more to your Professor and see if there's something that they might actually have to teach you that might benefit you in the future. And if you don't I'm going to give you an 'F' for this class. See you on Wednesday, you better have your homework bitch. |
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No offense to anyone (seriously...messiahtosh, I have no idea how you are in class so this isn't me making a judgement about you at all), but one universal truth I learned in college was that the students who believe they are asking "tough questions" that challenge the profs are in all cases the most obnoxious and most misguided students with the least thought-out opinions. I'm serious. They are the absolute worst, and part of what makes them so bad is that they apparently have absolutely no idea how stupid they sound. It's just their misguided teenage arrogance expressing itself in an academic setting.
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Yeah, I'd have to second that. In most cases from what I've seen the people who ask the "tough" questions are the same people who like to hear themselves talk.
I once had a professor say to a student who liked to ask the "tough" questions: "I don't have time for your stupid shit. Don't speak in my class again". I thanked him when class was over. Google is your frenemy. Caveat Emptor - Latin for tough titty I tend to interpret things in the way that's most hilarious to me |
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Amen, brother.
Been there, done that, bought the soundtrack. I even apologized to a prof once because I thought I'd been that guy. The prof basically said "yeah, you weren't helpful, but you got the clue after a few glares". Of course, during the classes I first thought I was full of useful anecdotes that were topical and well received, but then I realized that the students weren't paying to see me, and I wasn't grading them or writing the curriculum, so I shut up and did what was asked. Smartest thing I did in that class. All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. Last edited by curiousuburb : 2006-04-03 at 21:01. |
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A student at my Uni. got suspended and had his scholarships retracted after making some accusations against one of our Dental School Profs. in an online blog. The allegations, although about his teaching manner, and the way he graduates students, were unprofessional.
I am at a private University however, I'm not sure how this applies to public schools. User formally known as Sh0eWax |
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I don't say things to hear myself talk or blurt out misguided ramblings like the one kid in philosphy class who came to the conclusion that, "there must have been a time when people started to be born with souls..." "We are reviewing some 9,000 recent UNHCR referrals from Syria. We are receiving roughly a thousand new ones each month, and we expect admissions from Syria to surge in 2015 and beyond." - Anne C. Richard, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration |
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