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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-09-12 10:59 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-09-12 10:59 pm
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Professor Quotes, week 2
I'll probably stop these posts when the novelty wears off. For now, AMUSEMENTS.
I wish I had a device that could just record these classes, because really, there are a lot of funny conversations throughout.
Medical Terminology.
"Andropause. ... The cessation of being a man. They didn't call it testopause."
Context: We were playing Medical Dictionary Find-It. He gives us a word, we race to find it in our dictionaries. I am very good at this game. Anyway, one of the words we looked up (I don't remember which) had 'ando' in it, which led to a breaking down of the word 'androgynous' (andr/o- = male; gyn/o- = female; -ous = pertaining to. Androgynous: pertaining to being both male and female. If we're being literal). There are a couple hospital employees in the class, and one of them, upon hearing the definition of 'ando' immediately said, "Isn't there something called 'andopause'?" and we all riffed through our dictionaries and, yes, sure enough.
This led to a bizarre conversation on the use of 'andropause' versus 'testopause' when they used 'menopause' instead of 'gynopause.' It concluded when the professor suggested someone doing the topic for a presentation. This was followed by a very dramatic double lightning flash from the window behind him. (No, seriously.)
"Calculus is just a fancy way to count rocks."
Context: More Dictionary Find-It. We were looking up "dyscalculia." Calcul/o- means stones, so. He was giving us more examples of its use.
This one's a little, er. Anyway, at one point, for a class, he had to learn the Latin names for different plants, and he had a bit of trouble with the American Beech (fagus grandifolia). He doesn't claim this one, says someone else suggested it for him, but anyway! "Well, think of Elton John's song, The Bitch is Back. It's Elton John, so it sounds like beech. And, well, what is he? ... Fagus Grandifolia."
WE ARE SO PC.
This class is probably going to get (er, even more) inappropriate as it goes on.
Moving on! Last week's "topic" in Human Biology was, of course, colon therapy. This week's 'thing Jecca never really needed to know that much about' was thyroid dysfunctions. Much less interesting! (Mostly because I'd already heard most of it, as I know several people with hypoactive thyroids, and one who had a hyperactive thyroid that got fried too much and became hypoactive.)
I really like the professor's wording. I think I'm the only one, because no one else ever so much as smiles. I wonder if they just don't get it or something.
Anyway, one of our quizzes is "going to be of the carbonated, high-fructose corn syrup variety."
And, actually, they're not quizzes. Before handing out this week's quiz, he asked us, "Are there any questions prior to the dispersal of the cognitive challenge?"
No one else thought either was funny. Possibly I am just a bit of a lunatic.
Regarding oils:
"They banned the serving of partially hydrogenated oils in New York City. *pause*
If it's good enough for New York City, it's good enough for us!"
My notes on water, copied directly from his writing on the board, read as follows:
IV Water - The Most Important Nutrient!
- without it, you Die!!
... followed by, of course...
properties:
1. solvent
2. medium for rxns (("rxns" = reactions))
3. AND IT CUSHIONS JOINTS ((An injoke that a few people might remember. Pilates, anyone? But he said it.))
He was late getting back after break. (No, they don't really make us sit in the same room for three hours straight.) So he hurried in and started shuffling his papers together and said, a bit rushed, "uh, Unfortunately, there's been some confusion here at [school!]..." (Here he finished piling everything together and made to grab it all up.) "It's been a pleasure being your instructor, someone else should be in here in just a... heh, just joking."
Half the class laughed and the other half looked embarrassed.
He was late because he ran photocopies off of the rest of the notes on Chemistry and Nutrients, and they're all relatively normal until page two, where, right after explaining about how lipids attach to protein molecules to form a lipoprotein (or lipop), this paragraph occurred:
HEY! "lipop" sounds a little like "lollipop!" And if one were to draw a metaphor to the lipoprotein by using a blow-pop then, by golly, the outer shell would be the protein and the inner chewing gum, the lipid! Yet another miraculous discovery!
He apologized for that. I'm not sure why. IT IS GENIUS. (He also apologized for turning every sentence into a tangent - and no, that's not much of an understatement.)
There was also an illustration of how the glycocalyx (on cells) works that mostly involved something that looked like PacMan and a heart.
That is all for the highlights of this week.
I wish I had a device that could just record these classes, because really, there are a lot of funny conversations throughout.
Medical Terminology.
"Andropause. ... The cessation of being a man. They didn't call it testopause."
Context: We were playing Medical Dictionary Find-It. He gives us a word, we race to find it in our dictionaries. I am very good at this game. Anyway, one of the words we looked up (I don't remember which) had 'ando' in it, which led to a breaking down of the word 'androgynous' (andr/o- = male; gyn/o- = female; -ous = pertaining to. Androgynous: pertaining to being both male and female. If we're being literal). There are a couple hospital employees in the class, and one of them, upon hearing the definition of 'ando' immediately said, "Isn't there something called 'andopause'?" and we all riffed through our dictionaries and, yes, sure enough.
This led to a bizarre conversation on the use of 'andropause' versus 'testopause' when they used 'menopause' instead of 'gynopause.' It concluded when the professor suggested someone doing the topic for a presentation. This was followed by a very dramatic double lightning flash from the window behind him. (No, seriously.)
"Calculus is just a fancy way to count rocks."
Context: More Dictionary Find-It. We were looking up "dyscalculia." Calcul/o- means stones, so. He was giving us more examples of its use.
This one's a little, er. Anyway, at one point, for a class, he had to learn the Latin names for different plants, and he had a bit of trouble with the American Beech (fagus grandifolia). He doesn't claim this one, says someone else suggested it for him, but anyway! "Well, think of Elton John's song, The Bitch is Back. It's Elton John, so it sounds like beech. And, well, what is he? ... Fagus Grandifolia."
WE ARE SO PC.
This class is probably going to get (er, even more) inappropriate as it goes on.
Moving on! Last week's "topic" in Human Biology was, of course, colon therapy. This week's 'thing Jecca never really needed to know that much about' was thyroid dysfunctions. Much less interesting! (Mostly because I'd already heard most of it, as I know several people with hypoactive thyroids, and one who had a hyperactive thyroid that got fried too much and became hypoactive.)
I really like the professor's wording. I think I'm the only one, because no one else ever so much as smiles. I wonder if they just don't get it or something.
Anyway, one of our quizzes is "going to be of the carbonated, high-fructose corn syrup variety."
And, actually, they're not quizzes. Before handing out this week's quiz, he asked us, "Are there any questions prior to the dispersal of the cognitive challenge?"
No one else thought either was funny. Possibly I am just a bit of a lunatic.
Regarding oils:
"They banned the serving of partially hydrogenated oils in New York City. *pause*
If it's good enough for New York City, it's good enough for us!"
My notes on water, copied directly from his writing on the board, read as follows:
IV Water - The Most Important Nutrient!
- without it, you Die!!
... followed by, of course...
properties:
1. solvent
2. medium for rxns (("rxns" = reactions))
3. AND IT CUSHIONS JOINTS ((An injoke that a few people might remember. Pilates, anyone? But he said it.))
He was late getting back after break. (No, they don't really make us sit in the same room for three hours straight.) So he hurried in and started shuffling his papers together and said, a bit rushed, "uh, Unfortunately, there's been some confusion here at [school!]..." (Here he finished piling everything together and made to grab it all up.) "It's been a pleasure being your instructor, someone else should be in here in just a... heh, just joking."
Half the class laughed and the other half looked embarrassed.
He was late because he ran photocopies off of the rest of the notes on Chemistry and Nutrients, and they're all relatively normal until page two, where, right after explaining about how lipids attach to protein molecules to form a lipoprotein (or lipop), this paragraph occurred:
HEY! "lipop" sounds a little like "lollipop!" And if one were to draw a metaphor to the lipoprotein by using a blow-pop then, by golly, the outer shell would be the protein and the inner chewing gum, the lipid! Yet another miraculous discovery!
He apologized for that. I'm not sure why. IT IS GENIUS. (He also apologized for turning every sentence into a tangent - and no, that's not much of an understatement.)
There was also an illustration of how the glycocalyx (on cells) works that mostly involved something that looked like PacMan and a heart.
That is all for the highlights of this week.