December 1, 200619 yr comment_5414614 I'm not in school anymore, but while doing my math degree, there was this one mathematical logic prof who was also a huge NFL fan that I loved. The classes were great, as quite often, the examples he would have NFL football related to them somehow. On a similar note, I remember a math teacher I had in grade 9 who was a hockey coach. One test we had involved a money problem involving Married With Children. The first part of the question involved Bud having x number of nickels, y number of dimes, and z number of quarters, giving the total amount of money he had and the number of coins. Solve for x, y, and z. Second part of the question had Al Bundy with $1, $2, and $5 bills. Same thing. The last part of the question was a bonus: What does Al do for a living? Another part of the test was an Ottawa Senators question, where 3 players scored goals in a certain ratio, with a total number of goals given. How many goals did each player score? Another bonus was given, which was what the score was the Friday night before the test (against Philly, if I recall correctly). I'll hit the co-workers bit later, but good times those were.
December 1, 200619 yr comment_5414615 This may come to a shock as some people but the professor who inspired me to become a history teacher was a die-hard conservative. Hell, he voted for Goldwater in '64. The whole class consisted of 2 tests and a 16 page essay. That's it. There were no projects or reading assignments. He lectured every class for 80 minutes straight. However, his lectures were so engaging, I never fell asleep or missed a class. Now, throw that all away and my other favorite college professor was a communist who had a bust of Stalin in his office. Go figure.
December 1, 200619 yr comment_5414625 It's okay to be happy, you know. Looking forward to Verderbt's response to this. I had a fairly cool professor for a ton of literature/writing courses. Instead of trying to bore us to death with pretentious crap and technicalities, he'd always ask us questions that got us to think and joked around with us too. There was one moment in class I'll never forget, where he was asking us for words to associate with "moon" (I think he was going for a more romantic association). So, one older guy sitting near me says "ass". Next thing I do is raise my hand as hard as I can and shout "cheese". The entire class could not take its mind off of "ass cheese" for the rest of the hour, so much the professor had trouble going on with lecture. There was also a Calculus professor that I liked. Sarcastic asshole, also likes watching others suffer! I swear that one day, I'm going to use "green monkey" out in real-world algebra if it ever comes up.
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