<p>What's your funniest or most unexpected moment with a professor?</p>
<p>Last semester, I took an insanely tough writing class. The class required four essays, and I was doing pretty well until the third essay. I couldn't write it! I let my professor know on Thursday night (the night before the essay was due) that I couldn't see myself having the essay done for the next day. The conversation sort of went like this:</p>
<p>Me: I don't think I will have this essay ready for tomorrow.
Prof: Do you need more time? Because I can give you until Sunday afternoon.
Me: But that wouldn't be fair to the other students who have to turn in their essays tomorrow.
Prof: So what?!</p>
<p>I kept my composure, but I certainly wanted to lmao.</p>
<p>I was in a computer lab with a kid with tourette's who kept yelling the F word in a melodic tune. I was pretty mature about it until I heard a mild laugh from my professor, in which I could not stop laughing! I quickly changed the website to a comedy website as an alibi.</p>
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Me: But that wouldn't be fair to the other students who have to turn in their essays tomorrow.
Prof: So what?!
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<p>reminds me of Boiler Room, when he gets the call to subscribe for the daily news:
telemarketer: we're trying to reach out to people who've never had home delevery before</p>
<p>seth: so pretty much you're telling me anyone with a subscription is getting F'd on this one?</p>
<p>Well, I stopped by my history's professor's office hours a couple days before the final exam. He said I was a good student and he said "Xie xie" or "thank you" in Mandarin. </p>
<p>My English professor went through a breakup (14-year relationship) right before the past semester started. He's young, gay and has an adopted son. There was the day he brought his son to class and just let him play on the computer in the front of the room while we learned about erotic poetry. But here are some good quotes from class.</p>
<p>"I went to Princeton as an undergrad, and that's how it was. I visited when I was 12, and I was bug-eyed and was like 'I want to be here.' So I went and fell in love within a month of arriving. I just ditched that guy...yeah, so that's my story. I'm trying not to bring bitterness into the classroom." - Jason Rudy</p>
<p>About the cathartic quality of writing: "Sometimes I want to take a club and beat my ex-partner. But instead I can go and write in my journal and I don't have to be a violent person. Sorry to bring so much of my personal life into the class, but it's extremely relevant." - Prof. Rudy</p>
<p>After trailing off into mumbling in the middle of a sentence:“God! I am so tired. I finished grading papers for my other class late last night, my ex-partner’s parents came over because they’re staying with my son while I’m in Canada, so I had to entertain them…and you know how that goes.” – Rudy</p>
<p>“This poem is for all of you who get hot and bothered by a farmers’ market…and I can sort of relate to that.” - Rudy</p>
<p>"So I was in high school...Sorry to be so autobiographical...but I was in high school, and I was dating this woman, who had been a really good friend before. It turns out she was a lesbian--so we were a perfect match. We were dating for a few weeks and I was standing by my locker and she came up to me and said "I want this to be over, I feel sick to my stomach when I'm with you." And I just stood there and was thinking, "But I feel sick to my stomach when I'm with you!" But I didn't want her to break up with me." - Jason Rudy</p>
<p>"It's like when you go on a first date with someone, and you go home, and you analyze...and I say 'you' when I'm really talking about myself. So when I go back and analyze..." - Rudy</p>