A somewhat similar situation occurred at a university where I used to teach. An unfamiliar student enrolled in the undergraduate quantum mechanics class. This is a class only physics majors would take, and only after taking several prerequisites, so a new face will immediately stand out, but everyone assumed he must be a transfer student from another university. After about two weeks, the student finally spoke up: “Excuse me, but what does this have to do with business?” “This doesn’t have anything to do with business,” my colleague who was teaching the course answered. “Isn’t this ‘Quantum Mechanics for Business Majors’?” “There IS no ‘Quantum Mechanics for Business Majors’!” My guess is that he confused Quantitative Finance with Quantum Physics.
I took a welding class as part of my curriculum at Poly. One girl was in the class. She was an animal husbandry major. The Prof said, “well who knows, maybe you’ll have to weld a cow back together some day.”
Similar story. In the ’fifties, the UCLA Sanskritist Murray Emeneau was puzzled at the first meeting of his Sanskrit 101 class by the presence of three large and seriously fit young men sitting together in the back row. Well, it takes all kinds, thought Prof. Emeneau, and started at the beginning.
“The Sanskrit syllabary is systematic, and runs as follows: a ā i ī u ū e āi o āu; ka ga kha gha ŋa . . . .”
One of the young men rumbled, “Jesus! It’s a language!”, and the three of them trooped out.
Concretionist almost 4 years ago
Put on your damn MASK !
i_am_the_jam almost 4 years ago
I don’t get it.
AtariDragon almost 4 years ago
A somewhat similar situation occurred at a university where I used to teach. An unfamiliar student enrolled in the undergraduate quantum mechanics class. This is a class only physics majors would take, and only after taking several prerequisites, so a new face will immediately stand out, but everyone assumed he must be a transfer student from another university. After about two weeks, the student finally spoke up: “Excuse me, but what does this have to do with business?” “This doesn’t have anything to do with business,” my colleague who was teaching the course answered. “Isn’t this ‘Quantum Mechanics for Business Majors’?” “There IS no ‘Quantum Mechanics for Business Majors’!” My guess is that he confused Quantitative Finance with Quantum Physics.
Jeffin Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Groovy, man.
kv450 almost 4 years ago
Shouldn’t this be a Tank McNamara strip?
Zen-of-Zinfandel almost 4 years ago
They’re critiquing Mahomes Alone.
hrhitter almost 4 years ago
He found it.
WCraft Premium Member almost 4 years ago
This is it. But, considering the entire football team enrolled for the easy grade, all we ever show is “Rudy.”
PPMKS almost 4 years ago
I took a welding class as part of my curriculum at Poly. One girl was in the class. She was an animal husbandry major. The Prof said, “well who knows, maybe you’ll have to weld a cow back together some day.”
AndrewSihler almost 4 years ago
Similar story. In the ’fifties, the UCLA Sanskritist Murray Emeneau was puzzled at the first meeting of his Sanskrit 101 class by the presence of three large and seriously fit young men sitting together in the back row. Well, it takes all kinds, thought Prof. Emeneau, and started at the beginning.
“The Sanskrit syllabary is systematic, and runs as follows: a ā i ī u ū e āi o āu; ka ga kha gha ŋa . . . .”
One of the young men rumbled, “Jesus! It’s a language!”, and the three of them trooped out.