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- "This is where the unpleasant part comes in." ~My Circuits 2 prof
- "Old Man Euler says that..." ~My Circuits 2 prof
- "Look at that. It's magic." ~My Circuits 2 prof on a transfer function
- "Did I just do something stupid by filling up the blackboard with all this stuff? I think I did." ~My Circuits 2 prof
- "This isn't just important... I'm having lots of fun here." ~My Circuits 2 prof
- "What is it about homework? No one wants to be the first one to hand it in." ~My Circuits 2 prof
- "It contains all frequencies of different strengths. That's another way of saying the delta function is weird." ~My Circuits 2 prof
- "There's nothing wrong with infinities. We have a very large universe." ~My Solid State prof
- "So that's going to be a nightmare." ~My Solid State prof on a calculation he was preparing to embark on
- "Consistency is more important that being rigorous. The whole world does it." ~My solid State prof on electrons having different masses depending on the formula used
- "How can something that doesn't really exist collide with something?" ~Guy in my Solid State class
- "It's hard to think with seventy people looking at me." ~My Solid State prof
- "You can make that as large as you like...we like milliamp values, not kiloamps." ~My Solid State prof
- "It's non-destructive. The smoke is still in it. If the smoke were coming out, you'd be dead." ~My Solid State prof
- "Let's give it a few more minutes to see who else is brave enough to come back." ~My Solid State prof after a particularly unpleasant exam
- "Everybody thought it was hard. I don't know what came over me." ~My Solid State prof after a particularly unpleasant exam
- "If you ground both sides, the connection is basically the Florida aquifer." ~My Solid State prof
- "As a faculty member, I can move your grade up...or down." ~My Solid State prof
- "They probably don't know what they're talking about. They're circuit people. For circuit people, a good device design is a black box." ~My Solid State prof
- "Hope you learned something. We'll see that on the final, I guess." ~My Solid State prof
- "A little bit of despotism there. But that's what democracy is all about." ~My Econ prof on taxes
- "[The IRS] is a legal Mafia." ~My Econ prof
- "If you don't know the answer and somebody says, 'right,' say, 'yeah.' 95% of the time, you'll be okay." ~My Econ prof
- "Do ponies have a salvage value?" ~My Econ prof
- "It's our last class for God's sake, answer the questions." ~My Econ prof
- "[sardonic laugh] Life is getting worse now." ~My Econ prof
- "It wasn't me. It was someone else within me." ~My Econ prof
- "You can't push on a rope." ~My Statics prof
- "What if A happened to NOT be at the origin? There are an infinite number of other places it could have found itself." ~My Statics prof
- "It's being squnched." ~My Statics prof putting "compression" into layman's terms
- "Most people can, in fact, tell their right hand from their left hand." ~My Statics prof
- "Three, my friends, is more than two." ~My Statics prof
- "If you ever break the code, then you're not a slave to the stupid table." ~My Statics prof
- "It's not capable of any moment reaction about this axis, otherwise it would be...a crappy bearing." ~My Statics prof
- "When you encounter favourable geometry, do not give it away." ~My Statics prof
- "I'll give you a hint: it's a four letter word starting with 'f'...and it's not a bad one." ~My Statics prof on free vectors
- "Is five equal to three? Not usually." ~My Statics prof
- "Under ordinary conditions the lift force is up." ~My Statics prof
- "You see something on the bottom [of the ocean[, and you say, 'I'm goin' for it.' And then you get down there and you think '...Gosh.'" ~My Statics prof on water pressure
- "It's like you went to the deli and said, 'I want a slice of that salami...and make it infinitely thin.'" ~My Statics prof
- "Thanks for coming today; looks like a lot of you didn't...or a lot of the people who aren't here didn't...all of the people who aren't here didn't." ~My Statics prof
- "Make sure all of the homework makes it back to that side of the room. Alright, we were talking about skinning cats." ~My Statics prof
- "It's like telling peaches from tangerines. Oh, come on, you can tell peaches from tangerines... Peaches have the fuzz." ~My Statics prof
- "If you perturb it a little, it says 'That's okay. I'll just go back to equilibrium.'" ~My Statics prof on why brass cylindars are so chill
- "You wouldn't wanna place prized members of your family in a little rolly cart on top of a mountain like that. The first little breeze that comes along, Woosh! They're goin' down the hill." ~My Statics prof
- "Verne was very dirty...in a nice way." ~My Verne prof
- "Verne was [a bit of a prude] as well, but in a sort of troubled way that made him still want to tell dirty jokes." ~My Verne prof
- "If you miss class...you're going to miss the side show." ~My Verne prof
- "If you wanna get drunk and catch a venereal disease, you'd be better off doing it in Paris than in Fort Lauderdale." ~My Verne prof
- "My handwriting is terrible, you'll have to get used to it. I have." ~My Verne prof
- "We've had 24 hours in the day since the time of Gilgamesh, and that's good enough for me. I don't know why they decided to make it eleven periods." ~My Verne prof
- "People found out there weren't many ducks...I keep making allusions to these ducks, but no one knows what I'm talking about." ~My Verne prof
- "Those who have had be before know I have a hard time...shutting up. It's in my nature." ~My Verne prof
- "I'm not being a smutty reader here, because this is smutty stuff." ~My Verne prof on Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- "[waving his hand over his head imitating a whirlpool] Verne was fascinated by this Thing. This Swirly Thing." ~My Verne prof
- "I want this to go away. I don't like it." ~My Verne prof about a Firefox update
- "This is a myth... This is a map." ~My Verne prof showing a map of the strata of Britain
- "His plagiarism gets more subtle as he gets older." ~My Verne prof
- "It was really, really other." ~My Verne prof
- "Verne's audacity knows no parallel." ~My Verne prof
- "It's a place in the middle of the earth where all kinds of weird [stuff] happens, to pout it as directly as possible." ~My Verne prof
- "Verne is too fascinated by the idea of this giant scary fish monster." ~My Verne prof on the ichthyosaur
- "I imagine the dinosaurs thought [they were masters of the earth], too." ~My Verne prof
- "No one stands up in the theater [during a musical] and says 'What the [Tartarus] is going on?!" ~My Verne prof
- "Let's imagine that you haven't read any Verne and you don't have a professor who beats you over the head with it." ~My Verne prof
- "Verne doesn't bring in the zombies, he doesn't bring in aliens, there aren't Norse gods..." ~My Verne prof on Verne's apocalypse stories
- "The natives don't go to the north pole because it's too cold and there's NOTHING THERE." ~My Verne prof on Norway
- "I assume natural selection selected out seasonal affective disorder." ~My Verne prof on Norway
- "He's going to a place that's absolutely unique. Well, there's another one at the South Pole. There's two of them that are unique." ~My Verne prof
- "Get your SPF factor ten million ready." ~My Verne prof on the magnetic poles filpping
- "It's best just not to think about what ytou have to do, just do it. If you think about ti, you'll FREAK out." ~My Verne prof
- "The hunters who live in those areas don't go in [the Congo swamps]. Only the white people in search of the great mythical dinosaur." ~My Verne prof
- "Boy, this fails the verisimilitude test..." ~My Verne prof on "The Seal and the Bear" (an illustration from The Adventures of Captain Hatteras)
- "You know the water [at Niagra] is doing that right now. And, like, a week from now, and a month and a year..." ~My Verne prof
- "I know I sound like a, like a aaa br-broken record..." ~My Verne prof
- "I know about this stuff, it's terrible. Why didn't I put these brain cells to better use? I can't remember the opening lines to Wordsworth's 'The Prelude,' but I can sing the Scooby Doo theme song. There is something seriously screwed up about the priorities of my neural processes." ~My Verne prof
- "It's really red. Like a-shirt-I-might-wear red." ~My Verne prof on red snow
- "Hey guys, watch this!" ~My Verne prof as the Imp of the Perverse
- "I'm not interested in melodramatic fiction, but [darn] it's good." ~My Verne prof
- "[Michael Palin] is kind of a charming man, and that makes it more interesting." ~My Verne prof on Palin's travelogues
- "There's a possibility that there's nothing going on in his head." ~My Verne prof on Phileas Fogg
- "He might as well be a pool ball." ~My Verne prof on Phileas Fogg
- "Fogg is not some sort of Scarlet Pimpernel... He's not Batman. He has no secret life." ~My Verne prof
- "It's all about winkwinknudgenudge to the reader." ~My Verne prof
- "Is it Tuesday or is it Wednesday? When is it? No. It's Tuesday. Well, [dagnab]." ~My Verne prof on the international date line
- "No one will ever describe what the Grue looks like because the Grue always eats everyone. [sly look at the side of the room]." ~My Verne prof
- "If you're gonna have a marriage, you have to get a girl somewhere in the narrative." ~My Verne prof on Aouda
- "There are many areas that I don't know about, and one of these areas is lace." ~My Verne prof
- "The most American thing in the novel is the ludicrous episode where they all decide they didn't want to wait, they'd just go really, really fast." ~My Verne prof on Around the World in 80 Days
- "Real life isn't very interesting, and when it does get interesting, you don't want to be there." ~My Verne prof
- "We're very sympathetic - even though he's creepy - with Fogg." ~My Verne prof
- "If you have a nuclear device, I think thirty seconds is cutting it close enough." ~My Verne prof
- "And now Terry Harpold is going to engage in an atrocious pun." ~My Verne prof
- "The land yacht is so great - it's totally awesome." ~My Verne prof
- "The purpose of the exam is not to see if you've paid attention to my wild gesticulations at the front of the class." ~My Verne prof
- "Sex is totally, totally, totally ridiculous." ~My Verne prof
- "Every bit of smutty subtext you think you're reading into the text is absolutely in there, but in a nice way." ~My Verne prof
- "There's nothing harder than trying to grade a bad exam." ~My Verne prof
- "It's not that he's running out of adjectives..." ~My Verne prof on the repeated use of certain words in Verne
- "I'm reading this with a somewhat salacious edge, and I'm sorry, I can't help myself." ~My Verne prof
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