So It Has Been Said

As some of the things I will likely discuss in my blog might be incriminating to some, the names of individuals may be changed.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Insert Humorous Title Regarding Class Oddities Here

At The Ohio State University, the best of the best of professors are employed to teach the future thinker of the world the right way to think.  However, they don't account for the funny things, and sometimes tragic things, that come out of the mouths of the professors and students.

Biochem -
I love biochem, even thought it's kicking my ass, and I enjoy my professor.  He's an intelligent man with good character.  However, he said something the other day that made me actually do a double take and stop writing to make sure I heard this correctly.  He was discussing starches or something which turned into a discussion on corn.  The man actually said, "I'm not sure if corn is native to America or not. I think the Indians had corn but I don't know where they got it from."  You're right.  They never had corn.  They bought it from the local greenhouse and were munching away on it before John Smith and his boat full of honkies arrived.

There's also this kid that sits around me who breathes louder than anyone I've ever heard before.  He's not a mouth breather, but sounds like he's using jet engines to breathe through his nose... it's annoying to the point that everyone around him was staring at him today.

Microbio -

The professor for this class is also an intelligent woman, but her fatal flaw is that she's German.  English isn't her native language, and in a profession where the words aren't easy to say, teaching it to English speaking students can't be an easy feat.
For the last few weeks we've been touching on DNA.  She keeps pronouncing "guanine (gw-i-un-neen)" as "goo-uh-nine." I find this to be hilarious and laugh every single time she says it.

Today she was talking about Antibiotics and as I was jotting down something she'd said, I missed what she was talking about.  Apparently so had all of my great friends sitting around me, because she said the words "Magic Bullet" and was referring to it as an antibiotic, and all three of us looked up, looked at each other, and burst into laughter. I think she's mistaken Magic Bullet with something totally different.. like Macrolide Antibiotic ?

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