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#4522 + ()/34 - [ Report ]
Stueben: The movie was about the English air force in World War I, and there was this pilot and his younger brother and the captain... [ten minute synopsis follows] So to pass tests, you have to get inside the teacher's head. Like the pilot, you have to become the person you hate the most. You have to become me.
Student: Wait. If the teacher is the captain in this metaphor, are the other students the Nazis? -
#4396 + ()/36 - [ Report ]
// Computational Physics
// Dr. Dell is talking about multiplication of matrices of complex numbers
Dr. Dell: So, it turns out that matrix multiplication is not commutative, but it is associative!
Brian: ...What's the difference?
Nader: Yeah, which one is commutative and which is associative?
Dr. Dell: When it's my 12-year old son, I don't say OH MY GOD. But when it's you guys - OH MY GOD, how have you made it this far?!
Nader: I remember distributive... -
#3716 + ()/42 - [ Report ]
// In geosystems, talking about summer econ instead of doing a lab
Ariel: Mr. Gee! He's such a G!
Dr. Woodwell: What's a G?
*Everyone laughs a lot*
Dr. Woodwell: Oh man, I feel particularly uncool now.
Ariel: It just means you're cool. You're a G too, Dr. Woodwell!
Dr. Woodwell, walking away: Hey James, I'm a G! -
#1148 + ()/38 - [ Report ]
Ms. Stevens: ...and in the spring, we'll go outside and watch the plants have sex. Yes, we will all watch the plants having sex - actually, you will measure the amount of sex they have and record it on your sheets. Actually, I was hoping that this maple out there would show us how plants have sex, but it's not cooperating, it's not even dropping its leaves! Sometimes I just want to go out there and shake it. But anyway, we will watch them have sex.
