My senior year capstone class was located in a 400 person lecture hall. The professor was not only boring but he was also completely monotone. My friend managed to fall asleep during every class.
So, we're sitting close to the front. We figured that maybe if she sat closer it would keep her from sleeping. No such luck. She fell asleep again. Well, you know how you'll sometimes get muscle spasms while sleeping and you'll jerk your arms or legs? My friend had a huge muscle spasms. She kicked the guy's seat in front of her (HARD), her textbooks land on the floor with a THUD, and she knocked her soft drink all over the girl sitting on the other side of her. By this point, the professor stopped teaching to see what the commotion was. The whole class was staring at her. She started blotting paper towels on the girl's shirt while saying, "Dude, I am SOOOO sorry." Funniest thing ever!

1) Subtle but funny: one of my favorite Pikas brought a six-pack to writing class, popped open the first one & quietly drank the entire six-pack. He then stood up and walked out. With a completely straight face, the professor said, "Was it something I said?"

2) Freshman year, Psych class (500+ lecture hall). During the final, the professor wrote, "SHOW YOUR ID WHEN YOU TURN IN YOUR TEST!" Thinking Freudian, I thought to myself, "show your id? Is he crazy?" I kept watching the people who turned in their tests go out into the hall with the professor, and thought, "Oh, they're showing him there!" When I finally got up enough nerve to turn in my test, he smiled & said, "That's okay, I've seen you here enough." I went back to my sorority suite, ranting about the pervert psych teacher who wanted us to show our ids! One of the seniors burst out laughing, and said, "Show your I-D, Honey, your ID Card!!"

Did I mention that I used to bleach my hair blonde?

3) Same year, I was giving a tour to a group of prospective students. I had just lost a lot of weight, so I had put on my pantihose, then my panties (to hold them up). Well, I was talking about the ceiling in the one room, and when I was gesturing toward it, I heard some snickering. My bright pink panties were down around my knees!

I had a class in the largest lecture hall on campus. One day while the middle aged female professor was going on and on (making us all fall asleep...), there was a commotion in one of the ailes. I look over and a streaker had just run through the ailes to the front, where he proceeded to do jumping jacks wearing nothing but a mask! Afterwards, a large group in the back got up and left leading us to think that it was a frat prank the actives dared a pledge to do. The best part was that the prof. was so distracted by it, she couldn't get it out of her mind for the rest of the time. Streakers aren't always original but it was hilarious to us and brightened up a dull lecture!

I took a Roman history class during my freshman year. The prof was British and had the sarcastic streak that goes with it.

We had one listener in the class. Our midterm exam was held during a regular lecture hour halfway through the semester. The listener forgot that it was midterm day and showed up for what he thought would be a lecture... half an hour late. Everyone burst out laughing when he walked in, especially those who didn't know he was a listener. So he decided that, since he was there, he'd take a stab at the test in the remaining half hour.

The following week, the prof had our tests graded and ready to return to us. He started out by saying, "As some of you may be aware, we have a listener in this class. He arrived half an hour into the exam hour. He probably did not spend hours upon hours studying for the exam. He still received a C. Now, twenty of you also received C's. Fifteen of you received D's, and four received F's. Now, this gentleman is a listener, which implies that he actually listens during lecture. It would behoove the rest of you to begin to do the same!"

Here's another couple. I wasn't actually present for these, but they're good.

1. This took place in a lecture hall. A certain troublemaker sat down in the aisle seat in the very last row. The prof was writing something on the blackboard, so she had her back to the students. He dropped a ping-pong ball down the aisle. It bounced on each step, poink - poink - poink. She didn't miss a beat in her lecture, and when the ball reached the bottom, she said without turning around, "I believe you have dropped something, Mr. Smith."

2. This was also in a lecture hall, one of those halls where the seats are set at a steep angle. One student in this class was completely bald. Someone came in and sat directly behind him. Because of the angle of the seats, the bald man's head was just at desk height for the guy behind him. During the lecture, the guy behind the bald man reached into his bag, pulled out a gigantic red and white checked napkin, and tied it around his neck. He then pulled out a serving spoon and tapped it in the air around the bald man's head as if you were cracking open an egg. He mimed shaking salt and pepper, then picked up the spoon and proceeded to "eat" the "egg". Everyone else, including the lecturer, was ROTFL, but the bald man was completely oblivious!

I'm trying to think of funny stories, but I'm drawing a blank right now... I do remember one of my professors tripping twice while going up the 2 stairs to the platform... it was funny because she was scatter-brained and really embarassed afterward.

Once about two years ago I was in my Human Sexuality class (big auditorium room) and this guy in the front just starts stripping.. yeah just stands up and starts taking off his clothes... I don't know if he thought it was funny.... or was really disturbed or what... but yeah .. campus security came and took him away. Not funny.. but last week someone had a seizure in the middle of our film... kinda scary actually...

What is a listener??? :confused:

Some schools might call it auditing a course. You go to lecture, but you're not obligated to do any of the assignments or take the exams. You also don't receive credit.

This guy was a pretty regular attendee... which is more than I can say for some of the people who were taking the class for credit!

i was taking a meteorology class(for non-majors) to fulfill a science
requirement-heard it was an easy "a"-HA! anyway, it was winter and the sky was really cloudy and gray and one of the students asked if it might snow. now this is in tallahassee, florida, mind you. so the professor(who was the head of the department) goes into a long dissertation explaining why it would not snow-very boring! so i'm looking out the window, and this white stuff starts floating by the window-i figured that the whole lecture was a set-up and the prof. had a grad. student on the roof shaking a box of ivory snow. one brave student raised his hand and asked the profressor "if it's not going to snow, then what's that white stuff coming from the sky? the professor looked out the window, threw up his hands and said,"ladies and gentlemen, now you know why the weather forecast on television is no more accurate than it is. because of my error, class dismissed. go enjoy this florida snow!"it snowed the rest of the day and into the night and provided enough stuff on the ground to have a 3 a.m.snow ball fight with the sigma chis across the street from us. lisa

Ok, so this isn't THAT funny, but it was embarassing for me: My freshman year I was taking Physics II to fulfill some requirements and there were mostly older kids in the class including this one GORGEOUS sigma chi who sat behind me. I mean the boy was perfect. Really smart, good looking, anyway.........so I always tried to not say anything too stupid and kinda just tried to blend in, which was hard during Pledging!!!! Anyway, the night before the final I was cramming and apparently stayed up too late bc I fell asleep on my book with the lights on and woke up 30 minutes after the final started. I ran to class, realizing about half way there I had no bra on, my pj pants and a ratty sweatshirt, hair a horrible mess, my retainer still on, yea you get the picture. So of course, this class is a lecture hall with about 200 people in it, with the entrance door at the very front. I sat in the VERY MIDDLE of this madness and everyone else of course was already 45 minutes into their test. I was mortified as the professor gave me the test and shook his head and everyone kinda laughed at me. :o

One more, sorry...... At Baylor we were required to take two semesters of chapel. It could be really boring sometimes and really cool sometimes, but anyway. A few years ago, they started turning all the lights off so that you wouldn't be able to do your homework, everyone just fell asleep though. There were close to 2500 people in each chapel section. One of my best friends and I would always go sit in the balcony bc it was the best place to sleep! Well this one day we were particularly deep in conversation when we heard some giggling behind us, which turned to rows and rows of people laughing. When they stopped for a minute I saw why. I turned around and there was this really big guy(not really fat, just really tall and stout) who barely fit in the seat who had his head thrown back, mouth open, dead asleep, and snoring louder than anyone I had ever heard before. THe laughing got to be so loud that the poor guy woke up and looked around and flipped everyone off, it was hillarious.

I was sitting in my Japanese class one day and the professor designates someone to do the traditional response of respect which was standing up and staying "Kiritsu" which means "Please stand up" because the professor has entered the classroom. Then we all say good evening. Then we do the same thing at the end of the day. Anyway, it was my duty for the week and one class session we were learning the phrase "suki desu" during the entire class period. It means "I like." So I got up and I said "Suki desu" right at the professor! I didn't realize what happened until he started giggling a bit and said "I know you do. The entire class started laughing. I couldn't stop laughing and my classmate had to do the kiritsu for me.

This dumbass in one of my 300 person classes was picked to write ppl's answers on the board at the front of the lecture hall to the question "What are your top political concerns?". Someone shouts out "Euthanasia" and he writes "Youth In Asia.."

Another time, my teacher's false teeth kept falling out and he had to cancel class.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :D

ROTFL! OMG that was soooooooooooooo hilarious! Almost fell off my chair!!

You dont know how hard ia m laughing right now..... i have tears streaming down my face!

So we're sitting there in a very upper-level econ class the other day, that can be taken for graduate credit. My back-row buddies and I are just chilling there, making fun of the professor, when he says "So where are the people going to put their monies?" I mutter under my breath "In the banks." in complete sarcasm, and then to my shcok he says "People take their monies and they put them in the banks." Everybody in the room was looking at each other like "WE're 10 weeks into a Monetary Policy class and he feels the need to teach us that people put money in banks?"

Oh my god, this thread is hilarious.

I'm trying hard not to crack up here at work.

Most of the laughs in college came outside of class...but law school was a different story.

Law professors often use the Socratic method, which means that they choose a student at random and proceed to have a one-on-one dialogue in front of the whole class of Ivy Leaguers, posing lots of difficult questions. The professor never answers questions; the idea is to guide the student toward discovering the right answer himself. Predictably, even a very smart and well-prepared student can get tongue-tied and frozen when they're put on the spot like that, especially first semester of first year!

My civil procedure professor was interrogating a girl about a case involving international trade in the Phillippines, and asked her why the court had decided the way it did, but she didn't know where he was going with that question, and she started to panic and freeze up.

Professor: Well, what year was this case decided?

Student: 1942.

Professor: And where did the plaintiff want to send his ships?

Student: The Phillippines.

Professor: And what was going on in the Phillippines in 1942?

Student: Ummm....

Professor: Well, what was going on in the entire South Pacific in 1942?

Student: Ummm....uhhhhh....

Everyone felt so bad for her and was whispering the answer, but she was completely panicked and couldn't think of anything to say. Finally, the professor, PO'd, walked over to the blackboard and wrote in giant capital letters:

WORLD WAR II

I don't think she ever forgot about that...

Ok, this happend in eighth grade but still the funniest thing ( or the meanest thoing) I had history on the third floor in the building and the lecture on that particular day was very boring and no one was paying attention. Out of no where my teacher, Mr. Trent, opens the window and jumps out. well we are all and shock but one girl took it really badly and jumped up running around in a circle yelling call 911, Mr. Trent Killed himself over and over again. Then he pokes his head out the window, and says I bet I got your attention now. What we didn't realize tere was a large ledge and reality only jumped a couple of feet.

Also same teacher different day, he had been warning the same two boys about their pants being too baggy, and one day I guess he had enough. He called the two boys to the front to the class and duct the pants to them, I thought it was hilarious but It prolly wasnt funny for those two boys...

As an Occupational Therapy major, one of our classes was titled Activities and we focused on different activities you could use in therapy, what goals they might achieve and what the contraindications were for the activity. Part of this involved doing demonstration speeches and answering all of the above questions. I found a cool pattern on how to make a lamp out of popsicle sticks and did my speech on that. It was a 5 minute speech so I practiced a lot in my apartment, putting this lamp together over and over to get it so I could do it under 5 minutes.

It's speech day and I tossed all the parts into my backpack and headed for class. As I'm assembling this lamp in class I realize that the little cardboard tube that covers the electrical wires by the switch is missing. Oh well, I think, it's just decorative, I'll skip it. So, I plug the lamp in and go to turn it on and ZAP, I get a pretty good zap in my fingers and jump back about a foot, hitting the chalkboard behind me. Everyone in the class looks horrified and I just calmly unplug the lamp and finish my speech, making a joke that you need to make sure you have all the parts or you can get an electrical shock. During the rest of this speech, my arm is tingling and the muscles are really hurting. I sit down and start crying and my prof comes over with a dynanometer (tests muscle strength) and we find that my right arm is at about 40% strength compared to my left arm. I push my sleeve up because my shoulder is hurting and you could see an exit point for the electrical current! She sent me straight to ER where they had to do an EKG to make sure my heart wasn't affected by the charge.

It wasn't funny at the time, but I was definitely subjected to a lot of comments like "Dee's speeches are electrifying", afterward! They also practiced muscle strengthing techniques on that arm.. it remained weak for several weeks!

Oh yeah, I got an A+ for it.. the prof couldn't believe I kept my composure and finished the speech before breaking down.

What a trip!

Dee

I go to a VERY small school where students lose a letter grade if they have more than three unexcused absenses in any class. Obviously, people rarely skip class. Well, one day in my History of Vietnam class the prof checks for attendance and when finished tells us to pack up our things. That's right, one kid was absent for the fourth time, so we were going to go wake him up. My professor marches us to Greek Row and into a fraternity house, up the stairs until we arrive in his room. You guessed it, he opens the door to his advisor, professor and the twenty-nine of us.

I'm pretty sure that he doesn't skip classes very often anymore!

My first year in the theater program, I had to take a class called voice and movement, our prof was fabuloulsy gay and dating the chair of the dance dept. Because of this our prof used alot of floor exercises from his partners modern dance class. Now these exercises focus on the pelvic reigon as the center of the body so there is alot of rolling and thrusting going on. as if this isn't hard enough for a freshman class to get used to, a couple of weeks into the semester there was a day affectionaly referred to as" pelvis day" by all the upperclassmen.
On "pelvis day" Michael our professor would come to class in his usual tight black tank top and swet pants and begin demonstrating the days exercises, during the exercise in which we were supposed to lie on our backs knees bent lifting our pelvisis to the cieling, he would strip off his sweat pants to reveal a unitard (with no dance belt or anything holding him in) and begin to demonstrate the exercise. Saying something like "i'm over it, so get over it right? right. Anyways you can imagine the held back sniggers and jeers it really does take a special breed of person to be a theater major.

I forgot to share this when i last posted on this thread........


I dont know if it was funny or just down right sad

This girl in international political theory class during lecture just shouts out " thats it!...i can't take it no more..." the professor who was my dept advisor said, " excuse me?!" she starts having a total fit in class... "i can't take it no more ... i cant stand you or this class or this major or this dam school i quit!" picked up her books was about to walk ou and then threw them down and stomped out! we were all sitting there looking at one another and the most funniest thing was a student out of dead silence proceeds to ask the professor "so ...you were saying .... everyone just bust out laughing. i guess she quit school because never saw her againt hat semester or ever.

Second semester of my freshman year I wanted to take a math class and the one I really needed was not offered, so my math advisor suggested that I take Differential Equations. The class at Spelman was full, so I took a class at Morehouse (AUC students are allowed to cross register). The class was full of sophomore and junior math majors, some who were taking it for the second time. That should have told me something. Dr. Gore, the professor, was known for being tough. On April Fool's day some of the folks in the class decided to play a joke on him, so they placed a fake Coke can (looks unopened, but it is empty) on his desk that said "Have a Coke and a Smile Dr. Gore, from your DE class". Dr. Gore walked in, saw the note and the Coke and went on and on about how nice it was, what a wonderful class we were, etc. When he picked up the coke and realized it was empty he said "ohhhh, so you want to play a joke on me, huh. Well, joke's on you! POP QUIZ!" Everyone was dying laughing until he said Pop Quiz. You could have heard a pin drop. He proceeded to put the most complex DE equation on the board and said "Solve it". He let us sweat it out for about 30 minutes then told us to pass our papers in. After he got them all he said "April Fools!" and threw them away! Boy we were all sweating bullets that day!!

Probably doesn't sound that funny you all of you but one day in high school my chem teacher is walking around checking all our work and all of a sudden she trips on a backpack, falling flat on her face. All you see is her tacky sweater go down and then her jump right back up and shout "i'm okay". we were dying for the rest of class.

Same teacher I also had for organic chem the next year. She starts class by saying, "Today we are going to learn about backside attack, laugh, I know you must, just get it all out now". Till this day I can't find anyone else who knows what the hell backside attack is.

Now to college. In my business lecture and we are talking about copywrite extentions. The professor asks who would benefit the most from this, and gives us the hit that he is short, black, with big ears. Some yells out as the person next to me says it too "Gary Coleman". The class totally lost it.

A woman after my own heart. That's the kind of stuff I like to pull!

This one isn't so much funny as strange.
In my social psych class we were discussing how, during a crisis, the more people witnessing--the less chance there is that anyone will do anything. It's called Diffusion of Responsibility.
Anyhow--just as the professor pauses, a girl in the middle of class keels over and has a seizure. The entire class of about fifty just goes silent and stares--nobody does anything cuz even those that would normally do something figured it was part of an experiment or something.
After a good ten full seconds I grabbed my cell phone to dial 911 as an Alpha Phi in the class walked over to help her (she had spent the last summer as a paramedic in training or something). The girl didn't want an ambulance (not that I could get one--the lady insisted on an address...I told her I was on campus...and this building didn't have a road next to it anyway).
Anyhow it turns out that she had given blood and just had some sort of hypoglycemic shock or something...but during the seizure she lost control of her bladder and there was pee all over the middle of the floor. The Alpha Phi girl escorted her to the student health center.
The professor just went on and said,"well, I was going to go on with that...but I think this incident pretty much illustrated the idea here."
She never did come back to class.

I can't remember if I have posted in this thread or not. I didn't go thru all the pages and I apologize if I told this story twice.

I took a Poli Sci class during the summer at a JC in my hometown. The teacher was kind of a goof and quite a few people would get into heated debates with him. This one girl got so angry with him that she actually stormed out of the classroom after the professor basically told the student she was wrong for believing what she did. Well, later in the semester, the class decided that we wanted to debate. We were given a topic and split the class down the middle and we had at it. In the middle of the debate, we look over at the professor at the front of the classroom. He is SAWING LOGS like no other. Here we are screaming at each other about some issue and our professor is asleep at his desk. Head in his hand and eyes shut. We all just kinda continued speaking but we couldn't help but laughing at the professor. I don't remember how he actually woke up... I think he just sorta realized he was asleep and tried to play it off... but this wasn't until people were starting to leave class. He finally ended the class a little early. I lost a lot of respect for the professor that day... but it was still funny as hell.

In my high school history class, the teacher was talking as always and suddenly we hear this loud crash come from the back of the classroom. We all turned around to see what had happened and this girl had been reaching too far over to another desk and actually tipped her entire desk over, with her in it, and we quickly burst out in laughter.

In college psych, we were talking about what we find attractive in members of the opposite sex, and the professor called on some volunteers to describe. Well, this class had about 150 people in it, and this one girl described her boyfriend in the army and how she loves the uniform and the cap they have to wear. Just then, a guy comes into class late and walks almost to the front of the room. The closer he gets to the front, the more the laughter builds as people see him and finally, we all just burst out in laughter because he was in ROTC wearing the army uniform and was wearing the cap she liked. The poor kid had totally no clue why we were all laughing- musta thought he had something on his pants, but after he sat down, we told him what happened- and I noticed he was all red.

In my history class, we each had to get in front of the class and give a presentation about a specific book of our choice. Well, I'm totally awful at speaking in front of people. Something about 50 eyes all looking at me creeps me out. So, I'm up in front of the classroom and my speech is totally not going the way I had rehearsed it in my room, and I start to panic. In one line that I was giving, I was supossed to say "The men could divorce their wives...". As usual, I botched it by saying "The men could divorce their women..." The whole class erupted in laughter. :rolleyes:

I walked into a departmental meeting last year and everybody cracked up. :confused: Seems that the other professors had been discussing their favorite colors of M&Ms and I walked in wearing a T-shirt featuring the blue one.

I remember in 8th grade I had a Texas history teacher who was a tiny little lady and was older than dirt. She had a habit of tipping her chair back while seated at her desk. She would tip back far enough to lean on the chalkboard behind her. One day she tipped back and the chair slipped and she fell right out in the floor. The faculty men's lounge was right next door and two teachers heard the big "clump" and came over to help her up. We were a big help - we just sat there and stared!

Two stories...
There was a guy that I had a huge crush on and in between classes I saw him walk into the library so I decided to follow him. He sat in on the couches in the middle and starting reading a magazine. So I decided to sit at a nearby table and pretend to study. I was so happy when I finally caught his eye and saw him smiling at me. But the real reason he was smiling at me was because it was so super obvious that I was only in there to look at him and not really study since my book was UPSIDE DOWN! I was so embarassed!!!!
One time I feel asleep during an 8am class and had a bad dream. I woke up and threw my notebook into the air!

i was taking my first year seminar (called "family") and we had to read this book on orphans. this one girl (who we call "onion girl," youll see why) interjects the professor who was commenting on the book, and starts off by saying, "i talked about this in my paper (we had turned in a paper that day), but there was this really interesting article in "the onion" about..."

and were all in the classroom looking at her like, "is she quoting 'the onion'"? omg no she didnt!"

so as she's going on and on, the prof is giggling, and she says "yeah its kinda ridiculous right?" and he says, "yeah, its ridiculuous how your quoting a satirical newspaper."

the class is dying at this point, and she looks confused. she says, "yeah i know its pretty hilarious, but its a great paper. i get a lot of my information form there."

at the end of class, he gave her paper back and gave her a week's extension.

(and plz, tell me you guys know what the onion is, cause then the story is null and void)

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i had a professor in a 3 hour lecture who would give us our break halfway through and say, "anyone who needs to smoke or change a tampon, this is the time to do it." talk about blunt.

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another one--pretty embarassing.
another freshman class-(the class was called "lure of beauty")-there were 18 of us, all female, and we had this class in a conference type room. as this being the first class of the spring semester, me and friends got fucked up the night b4, and i was wiped. so the prof (male, no older than 30) who had the most gorgeous aqua eyes (i swear the were like mini-pools), was talking about the syllabus or whatever, and im starting off into space. so he says "any questions?" i raise my hand, still dazed, and ask, "are your eyes really that blue, or are they contacts? damn theyre beautiful."

he turns a bit red, and says, "is that why you've been staring at me all class?" winks at me playfully

if i was a few shades lighter, i probably wouldve turned red too, and im like, "i wasnt staring at you, im just a little tired..."
and he's like "yeah okay sure..."

it was pretty funny, and ironic, cause he starts talking about the psychology of beauty and why people are overwhelmed by eye color, feet, and some other stuff and how i gave him such a great segway to end the class.

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iPod girl sat in teh last seat of the last row of our calc class. very early and long class (8-10 am). she always showed up early, dressed pretty fab and with her very loud iPod (our classroom was always quiet and small, so it sounded like it was blaring)

and she never turned it off, or took it out her ears. taking notes? nope--50 cent was playing. taking our midterm--christina aguilera. turning homework in? moulin rouge soundtrack.

anyway, the prof is starting to teach again after our break, and people are still talking. and he slams his notes down and screams, "i mean it or saturday detention for everyone!"

and everyone looks around like, "is he 4real? what a joke!"

iPod girl who btw, never talked (then again in lecture there wasnt a chance to unless u volunteered) pulls her headphones out and says, "geez, calm the fuck out why dont you." and mutters, "fucking saturday detention. get real."

everyone (all of us who are awake) are dying and it pisses teh prof even more. to top it off, she puts her headphones on again and proceeds to listening to creed's "my sacrifice" (you get ragged on if you listen to creed at my school--i have no idea why) at top volume.

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:last one, i swear: (and i feel like i told this one)

in teh elevator to class, during rush hour (As we call it in main building) and its packed. this kid is crouched in the corner of the elevator listening to 2gether's "calculus." now i know everyone in that elevator knew what it was and that it was this particular kid.

as if this wasnt embarassing nough, kid#2 bursts out (as riding to the 9th floor is a long ride when it stops on every floor) "who's listening to 2gether?" makes eye contact witht e kid who looks away quickly, and says, "man thats cojones! loser"


okay im done.

My Soc. Final
 

I took a sociology class at a Community College. I had been warned that the teacher I had was a bit...well, she was interesting. She was a little blue haired old (when I say old I mean she was there when fire was discovered) lady. The first day of class she talked about punching Santa Claus in the nose (this was in January), and she called the President of the U.S. at that time the AntiChrist. Anyway, the day of my Soc. final she shows up to class a few minutes late all dishelved and DRUNK! I didn't notice anything was wrong until she passed out the test booklets and answer sheets, miscounting the number she need. The final was 100 multiple choice questions. Someone asked something about one of the questions so this teacher gives us the answers to the first 10 questions and then a few minutes later she tells us that we don't have to answer the last 15 questions. I was a mess the whole rest of the day. No idea how I got through the rest of my finals!

Somebody used the Onion in an academic paper? If I was the professor, I would have kept the paper and hang it up in the department's bulletin board. But I'm just mean that way.

I sooooooo needed this thread today.

I go to LSU and this is so true!! I also have a class in ceba and have to haul butt to cox building....and the smelly kid thing is true also...you can always tell who just ran to class in the heat.:rolleyes: