April 29, 2022

Professor, R U 4 , like, Traditional Marriage ? Like …

Student: Professor, RU 4 traditional marriage?

[Professor drops huge dictionary on student’s desk. It makes a loud , boisterous thud !]

[Professor smiles. ]

Prof: Please turn to the “T”s , look up “traditional marriage.”

Student: ok.

[Students smile.]

[This takes a while. The professor is patient. The student is not used to turning pages in large books. Or, any books].

[In fact, this is the first book the student has ever seen].

[Possibly].

Student: It’s not there. There’s nothing there.

Professor: Try the “M”s.

[A minute later, student gasps. OMG, hand over mouth. What the…].

[Professor rushes over dramatically to calm troubled student.]

Professor: RU OK?

Student:….I , uh…it…they…but…

Professor: Read it out, please.

[Students get out of desks to run to student’s shoulder and read over student. A dozen students are looking at the huge-ass dictionary].

And then class really began. It ended an hour and a half later. A student leaving said I was the first professor he’d had, and he’s a junior.