Well, after an eight-year long hiatus I decided to go for my MBA. But, this post is not about me and how I adjusted to the place. This is about the awesome professors that I had and the funny things they said.
Take 1
The first incident was in one of those very technical classes, DMOP, where pretty much nobody understood anything, not because the professor couldn't teach well, he was really good btw, but because it was really really really hard core operations and it didn't make sense to most of us.
So, to keep us engaged, the professor tried to bring in a little bit of humour into the classes, hoping that it would help him understand if the students are atleast awake. So while going on with this process, he often cold called a few students. One such time he cold-called a person who was very very busy with his cell phone, due to which, he was looking down at the phone on his lap and not at the slides. Unfortunately for him, the professor noticed him and called him out. The guy looked up, the professor then asked him something very very relevant to the subject which I have already forgotten (its been all of 6 months since I studied that subject you know) and the student obviously did not know the answer. So the professor says, you might want to put away your cell phone, at which the student gave that incredulous look which said, "Hey, I WAS paying attention.", to which the professor said, I know you were looking at your cell phone, you cant be looking at your crotch! The whole class burst out laughing and that guy, well, he did not look at his 'crotch' throughout that class. :)
Take 2
Well, we had this tradition in which once a professor had finished his last class with us, we would call him for a group photo. It was on these lines that we invited our FADM professor (a real cool guy I must add, and well you will get to know this in a few minutes too) So well, FADM stands for Financial Accounting and Decision Making and the professor was explaining to us how to understand account statements, more importantly, how to write items in the Cash Flow Statement if I remember correctly. So well, he went on for quite some time when soon enough, it was time to end the class. And well, people were getting ready to invite him for our group picture when he was finishing up. But before we could say anything, he says,"Now that we have finished this, I am going for a well-deserved potty break." And off he went, before we could even fathom what he really had said!
Take 1
The first incident was in one of those very technical classes, DMOP, where pretty much nobody understood anything, not because the professor couldn't teach well, he was really good btw, but because it was really really really hard core operations and it didn't make sense to most of us.
So, to keep us engaged, the professor tried to bring in a little bit of humour into the classes, hoping that it would help him understand if the students are atleast awake. So while going on with this process, he often cold called a few students. One such time he cold-called a person who was very very busy with his cell phone, due to which, he was looking down at the phone on his lap and not at the slides. Unfortunately for him, the professor noticed him and called him out. The guy looked up, the professor then asked him something very very relevant to the subject which I have already forgotten (its been all of 6 months since I studied that subject you know) and the student obviously did not know the answer. So the professor says, you might want to put away your cell phone, at which the student gave that incredulous look which said, "Hey, I WAS paying attention.", to which the professor said, I know you were looking at your cell phone, you cant be looking at your crotch! The whole class burst out laughing and that guy, well, he did not look at his 'crotch' throughout that class. :)
Take 2
Well, we had this tradition in which once a professor had finished his last class with us, we would call him for a group photo. It was on these lines that we invited our FADM professor (a real cool guy I must add, and well you will get to know this in a few minutes too) So well, FADM stands for Financial Accounting and Decision Making and the professor was explaining to us how to understand account statements, more importantly, how to write items in the Cash Flow Statement if I remember correctly. So well, he went on for quite some time when soon enough, it was time to end the class. And well, people were getting ready to invite him for our group picture when he was finishing up. But before we could say anything, he says,"Now that we have finished this, I am going for a well-deserved potty break." And off he went, before we could even fathom what he really had said!
