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thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname · 10 months ago

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throwback tuesday to that time when i took one of the few large lecture hall classes i ever took in college, a class on pre-1500s English literature, and the professor (a balding man with a British accent who banned computers because, according to him, he once caught someone watching Shrek 2 on a laptop during the lecture and he was upset it wasn't Shrek 1) stopped in the middle of talking about Beowulf to a hundred students to ask ME SPECIFICALLY (in the back half of the room but not all the way at the back) if I was using my smartphone under the table, so I had to lift up my hands and show him that no, I was knitting because the class had a bunch of printouts so I didn't need to take notes but the man wouldn't let me play spider solitaire or scroll tumblr and I had to do SOMETHING with my hands, and he was like, "ah, weaving peace I see. it seems we have the peaceweaver in our class" and then just carried on with things

#pickle pontificates #i'm not even mad. he was just eccentric enough to get away with it #always annoys me a bit though when college professors are like that #like girl you realize that a significant portion of students take notes electronically right. and if someone's watching shrek 2 then idk ma #it's their college experience. you're still getting paid #the lame beowulf joke did make beowulf stick in my head though #was it worth being perceived by 100 people at once for no reason? that's still up for debate #now the TA for that class. that guy actually sucked #a year later i was still running into people who just had the worst time with him. straight A eloquent friendly newspaper editor students #like the kind of students professors just love. engaged and respectful and earnest and talented. and they all hated that guy's guts #i had a gossip right in the english department about it. kinda scary. was afraid he'd come around the corner

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