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- PROFESSORS I HAVE KNOWN
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- (You know who you are.)
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- 1. The Heisenberg
- Has four offices. If you try to
- find her in any one office, she will
- be in a different one (p=1).
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- 2. The Vampire
- Guaranteed to be in the office
- between 1 am and 4am.
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- 3. The Schizo
- Visit this one in the morning and
- it's sweetness and light. Visit
- in the afternoon and you'd better
- wear leather britches.
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- 4. The Pack Rat
- Has documents left over from the
- previous tenant. The professor may
- or may not be in--look under the
- piles of unread journals and theses.
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- 5. The Consultant
- Consults for IBM, drives a gold 600SEL
- Mercedes, and sometimes stops by
- to teach a class.
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- 6. The Delegator
- Has a super-efficient secretary who
- prepares the class notes, authors
- publications, finds funding, and
- knows more about quantum physics
- than the professor.
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- 7. The Relic
- Looks like a walking corpse. While
- lecturing, experiences 30 second pauses
- caused by the occasional microstroke.
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- 8. The Robot
- Reads the lecture from a stack of yellowed
- ancient transparencies. Don't ask this
- one a question--any diversion from the
- norm causes utter confusion and mayhem.
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- 9. The Foreigner
- This is a Chinese grad student who has
- total mastery of thermodynamics--in
- Chinese.
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- 10. The Comedian
- This one is utterly hilarious and
- keeps the class in stitches--loads of
- fun, but you tend to forget what
- subject is being taught--until the
- 8-page, comprehensive final exam.
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- 11. The Prima Donna
- Is the only person in the world who
- understands toenail bacterial growth
- in the lemur of Madagascar (and the
- only person who wants to). Enjoys
- humiliating the occasional student
- dumb enough to ask a question.
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- 12. The Atavist
- Never left the sixties. Tends to dress
- in tie-dyed shirts, dirty jeans, and
- sandals (even in winter). Usually teaches
- sociology and talks like there are a
- few synapses misfiring.
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- 13. The Casanova
- A male professor who considers the
- classroom to be a personal harem.
- Tends to look like a greasy lounge
- lizard and gives new meaning to "grading
- on curves".
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- 14. The Delilah
- Female counterpart to the "Casanova."
- Delights in wearing seductive clothing
- and Eau-de-Bordello perfume to drive
- the freshmen boys out of their minds.
- Pretends to be unattached, but has a
- boyfriend who looks like Arnold
- Schwartzenegger.
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- 15. The Jerry Lewis
- Reminds you of the "Nutty Professor".
- When he remembers where and when his
- class is taught, he arrives in a
- smudged and smoking lab coat and smelling
- of sulfur. Believes in experimenting
- but not in the scientific method.
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- 16. The Kook
- Is researching the effect of brainwaves
- on the motion of electrons. Has heard
- every possible objection from saner
- colleagues and so has an answer for
- everything. Sounds every bit as plausible
- as the guy who thinks he's Napoleon.
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- 17. The Vacuum Tube
- Has a pet theory that depends on circa 1940
- technology. Tries to cloak the theory in
- modern terms so there's some possibility
- you'll buy it.
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- 18. (Your additions here!)
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