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#5834 + ()/44 - [ Report ]
// Acio chem, talking about the fail presentations he had to grade at VJAS
Acio: ...but the voltage is all about the electrodes, not the fruit! Then, she told me it had to do with the MASS of the fruit. I'm like OH. MY. GO-
Student: Well yeah Dr. Acio, that's why power plants are so big.
Acio: Yeah, you just go in there, open a door, and BAM, a big-ass WATERMELON sitting there! -
#5811 + ()/33 - [ Report ]
// 7th period Acio Chem 1; Dr. A is talking about his college days.
Dr. A: Just wait 'til you get to botany... It is the most. Boring. Thing. I've ever done. And my professor? He talked to the plants. Like, you know the speakers you play music from? He would put all his plants on them. And I asked him, you know, "why are those plants there?" and he's like, "they can hear the music; they can feel the vibrations," and I'm like, "okay, whatever turns you on..." -
#4676 + ()/75 - [ Report ]
// Discussing stoichiometry shortcut
Dr. Acio: There are five steps. The first step is formula writing, so if you haven't memorized your polyatomic ions yet, you get to step one and you're already screwed. By the last step you'll be owned. And I'll just be going through your test looking at all the ones you got wrong, saying "Owned. Owned. Owned." -
#4590 + ()/58 - [ Report ]
Dr. Acio: I once had a roommate who took organic chemistry with me. He told me that there was one concept he didn't understand until he was so drunk one night that it all came to him, and he thought "Aha!"
Student: Does this mean you're encouraging us to get drunk?
Dr. Acio: NO! -
#4158 + ()/68 - [ Report ]
// In Summer chem during the electrochem unit, Acio makes a comparison of a voltaic cell to rubbing wool socks on the carpet. DJ raises his hand.
DJ: So does some chemical reaction happen in your body when you do that?
*Acio stares for a minute*
Acio: *sarcastically* Yes...your sperm count goes down.
Acio: And now all of you guys will beg your parents to get hardwood floors. -
#3925 + ()/51 - [ Report ]
// Dr. Acio is explaining about solutions
Dr. Acio: If you leave milk in the fridge for three to four weeks, you'll notice that it'll separate into two parts: the curds, and the whey.
Student: Just like Little Miss Muffet!
Dr. Acio: ...Yes, but about the solution...
Student #2: Wait, why didn't they just say "milk" instead of "curds and whey"?
Student #3: It wouldn't have rhymed!
// Class descends into a poetry discussion while Dr. Acio facepalms. -
#3449 + ()/115 - [ Report ]
// Summer Chemistry, 2008, Dr. Acio is lecturing
Acio: Some of my students last year said that I should sing songs when I hand back their tests. So I thought *starts singing* "na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye" or even better yet "and another bites the dust, and another one gone and another one gone..." *mimes handing out papers* -
#2144 + ()/101 - [ Report ]
Dr. Acio: ...So that's why you don't age when you go past the speed of light, because you turn into pure energy, and energy doesn't age.
Student: Wait, but you can't go past the speed of light.
Dr. Acio: Oh, that's what they said with the speed of sound, but we showed them!
