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College Halloween Cliché Countdown: #3 Professor Loralei in Her Weird Leprechaun Costume

Posted on Wednesday, October 28th 2009
Tags: adults, costume, halloween, leprechaun, professors, teachers
College Halloween Cliché Countdown: #3 Professor Loralei in Her Weird Leprechaun Costume
We can always count on Creative Literature prof Amanda Loralei to pull out her dusty, mildewed Leprechaun costume to celebrate her favorite holiday and her favorite college football team. Your freshman year, it’s kind of cool. By senior seminar, you can’t quite look her in the eye. Go Irish!

New iPhone Apps for Student-Weary Tenured Professors: Calendar Protector

Posted on Wednesday, October 21st 2009
Tags: apps, college, faculty, iphone, lazy, malaise, teachers, tenure, university
New iPhone Apps for Student-Weary Tenured Professors: Calendar Protector
Graduate students at the Galveston Institute of Technology (GIT) are close to completing a helpful new iPhone app for tenured professors who prefer not to interface with students. Projected for release next month: Calendar Protector Do you teach a subject that students want to learn more about during their extracurricular times? When a Resident Assistant [...]

New iPhone App for Student-Weary Tenured Professors: Office Hour Randomizer

Posted on Friday, September 11th 2009
Tags: app, apps, incompetent, iphone, office hours, professors, teachers, tenure
New iPhone App for Student-Weary Tenured Professors: Office Hour Randomizer
Graduate students at the Galveston Institute of Technology (GIT) are close to completing a helpful new iPhone app for tenured professors who prefer not to interface with students. Projected for release next month: Office Hour Randomizer If you’re known to blow off your office hours, and a student catches you, just push a button, and [...]

Professor a Little Too Emo for Her Own Good

Posted on Monday, September 7th 2009
Tags: abuse of power, emo, emotional, ethics, inappropriate disclosure, professors, teachers
Professor a Little Too Emo for Her Own Good
Students at Smoky Mountain College have reported that Professor MacKlenner is a little too emo for her own good lately. “It started with her telling stories about her divorce during class,” said junior Walter Ahnor, a student in Professor MacKlennor’s History of the Novel seminar. “Now she wants to be Facebook friends so we have [...]

Students shocked to learn that professors have visual capabilities in the classroom

Posted on Thursday, July 9th 2009
Tags: chronicle, classroom climate, college, college humor, comedy, faculty, generation y, higher education, millennial, professors, satire, students, teachers, university
Students shocked to learn that professors have visual capabilities in the classroom
“It’s weird,” admitted LSU junior Jason Rammaport this week when it was revealed that his teachers could see him in their classrooms. “I honestly didn’t know,” he said. Many students shared Jason’s shock this week when final grades were released and not all students received perfect scores for class participation. “When I emailed my teacher about [...]

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