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| well, here we are i've finally decided to protest the crap that subprofile.com does to me and so i've moved the contents of my subprofile to my website. I hope you don't mind, it's the same stuff, and i intend to update it as often, but the popups were driving me nuts and when it stopped working i just couldn't deal with it anymore. so enjoy. |
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4/30 "...and the problem is solved. how many believe the problem is solved? hm..not very many..." "if computers unionize, we'll be in trouble, but right now we can overwork them and abuse them" "kind of a stupid name, but taht's what it says" ("it" being the notes he made up for himself and was just rewriting on the overhead) "there's a simple solution in math, but i can never remember it, and i'm pretty good at math. so, anyhow, i just use a program" 4/28 "a very large number times a very large number sometimes returns a negative number...it does make sene, just not very good sense" and comp sci is supposed to qualify as teaching me 'quantitative or formal reasoning' "we don't care how easy it is for the computer - computers have no rights - we want to make it easier for us" "it may be a matter of faith..." computer science doesn't qualify as math "don't kill your kids - that will be the best way" good advice from irina "it's wonderful, but get rid of it" - referring to the spaceballs quotes in this one guy's presentation irina: "in russia, toasting is an art. everyone knows how to toast. my son [he's 4] already knows how" 4/23 "we aren't robots - we're creative people" 4/21 "ochyen trudna...ochyen ochyen trudna..." 4/16 "to show this, you've got to get into statistics...but intuition works pretty good" 4/15 irina: "well, let me see" (in regards to a diagram the student was writing on the board) student: "i'm not sure...i don't know what i'm doing" (or a similar expression of complete and utter confusion, while backing away from the board) irina: "you did great - now explain" this is the woman who wrote a recommendation for me to go to russia, and had to be informed 2 mos later that i had applied "the best way to prep for this exam is to go back to your second-year book...i'm serious! our second-year students usually do better than our third- or fourth-year students" 4/14 student: "how much is this test worth?" irina: "i don't know. it's your grade - how much do you care?" irina: "tuition was free, and if we were good students then they'd give us a little money every month - not enough to live on, but enough to eat some food and get beer..." student: "the university gave you beer money?!?!?! i wish they'd do that here..." 4/7 petya: "i'm telling you - in 20 years the seasons will be reversed - summer will be in december and winter in july" irina: "that's fine with me so long as we still get summer" "i better not say anything about that b/c i don't know anything abt it." damn i wish everyone would have that attitude "do you want me to sit here and babysit you? i can if you really think you need it" irina on leaving the classroom during a test 4/3 "some people are just naturally perverse" - referring to ppl who ignore repeated instructions to CHOOSE ONE question to answer "if you were present at that lecture you might remember...you know what? i'll just draw it again" ta: "i had no idea wedding rings caused 3 tons of waste!" student: "if you had, you never would've gotten married, right?" ta: "really, wedding rings have no real use value. i mean, i guess you could use the diamonds to cut glass..." "i'd imagine the net benefit of using wind power actually exceeds the loss of life - those birds just need to sacrifice themselves to the greater good" "before you guys - petya and frank - came in the room nate was having a hard time of it - we were trying to explain to him why women are the better sex...now, nate, explain the lesson to jamie - prove that we were wrong" "when my daughter was twelve she was always crying and she'd say to me 'why am i always crying? i don't know why...' and i'd say to her 'it's all right - it's b/c you are a girl'" "i took my son [he's four] to the doctor - you know how slow it always is at the hospital - and when the doctor finally came out he said 'hey, brother, what took so long?'" (gotta hear irina's impression on that one - just imagine a little russian boy) 4/2 irina: "you can't do that! if this were a russian class, yes, but it's an american class, so you can't do it" student: "so russians cheat?" irina: "yes" (she seemed to think of the answer as self-evident) irina: "russians don't understand rules. we are a very free people" i'm gonna have a LOT of fun... 4/1 "whenever you are depressed and miserable read this book - it will make you feel better about yourself. and it's wonderfully written. all but the first sentence - it's thoroughly tolstoy" - irina, on tolstoy's "ressurection" (? - dunno how they translated the title) 3/31 me: "you only won b/c you were sleeping with the director..." (later)irina: "and where did you learn such dirty words?" me: "you taught them to us!" irina: "i did?" 3/27 "you can't come in here and write two pages of absolute bullshit and get credit for it. you have to know something." it's always nice to know there are SOME standards left 3/26 "my mother is convinced that chocolate makes brains function better" - irina 3/25 "the idea...and remember - this originates in texas...the idea was..." "there were turtles, which don't run away very fast, and there were clams, which don't run at all" 3/24 "it's bati, not batu - bati bati bati, b - a - t - i. but you may call him batu" 3/12 "i hope a few of you will be here friday..." "all bad words in russian come from the mongols...words like ??????...and all the other ones. anyone who would like to know the others come to my office - i'm too shy to say them to a big group" - irina "to be too educated is bad" "you will get six questions and two clean pages" interesting way of looking at a test, that... in 11th century russia it was illegal to "torture a peasant without the prince's consent" (that's the phrasing they used in the actual legal code, translated, of course) 3/10 "if yours doesn't work this way then it's not cheap enough" 3/7 "tomorrow is international women's day...it is! in europe..." "on this day all the men say to the women "we like you very much...without you we could not breathe"" "and what happened then to igor? he was defeated, disarmed...like saddam" "i'm god, so that means i can make the math come out right" 3/3 "a woman can spank you for this!" (if you wanna know, you'll have to ask) "how can you do this? you, a young girl, a future mother?" - irina, on seeing my birks (b/c it's snowing outside) on presentations: "it's almost international women's day, so women will rest and men will work" assigning presentations: "i haven't done one yet" "yeah, but you are girl, we can find someone else" "you all did much better than i expected" - irina 2/28 "think about blades in your head for a minute..." i'm still trying to decide if that's redundancy or idiocy (he meant for us to think abt stone blades) "early humans were probably concentrating on large, tasty animals rather than small poisonous animals and insects" you've gotta hear him speak to be able to fully appreciate these "oooh sharp things! oooh cut!" "he was a good father" "but how could he be - i mean, did he take his kids with him when he went on all these uncounted campaigns?" "of course his kids weren't with him when he was travelling, b/c it wasn't just travelling - it was war" 2/27 in russian there's a verb that means "too sleep too much" for example, you could say: i had a date last night and i ���������. if, however, you make the mistake of continuing on and adding a � ���? after it [with so-and-so] it implies very little sleep indeed... "when was the last time you heard people concerned abt a population explosion in iowa? no - here we're concerned abt the opposite problem - that when you all get your degrees you'll go away and there won't be anyone to take care of us when we're old and decrepit ...at least send money back" 2/26 "he talked too much, so after four years he was gone. why you laugh? it's true" 2/25 student: "so - we all got a's on the test, right?" ta: "hell no" |
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