<p>April 1st is coming up and I was wondering if any of you guys/girls have jokes/pranks that I could pull on my professor?
Can the pranks be funny in a way so that I don't look like a jerk or idiot but also so that the professor doesn't get offended?</p>
<p>It’s very dependent on what professor you have. Some of them will think it’s great. Good pranks for professors are somewhat different from the pranks you might play on your friends, and often relate to things they did in class (changing the class’s periodic table into the organic chemist’s periodic table, mugging them and saying “derive the Euler-Lagrange equations or I’ll shoot”, changing the clock to read in meters). There are some generic things you can do though: if you have those multiple level chalkboards, write or something on the one underneath so they don’t see it until they begin lecturing or get a ladder and put it too high for them to erase, change the analog clock to run counterclockwise, turn the room into a giant hamster cage, get a laser pointer if the prof uses one and try to point at things before they do etc.</p>