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[foodieabd]

(Heard outside of my office) After an explanation of a math problem reviewed in class that proved complicated and intricate, the student's friend replied, quite succinctly, "Duuuuude." 

I'm consistently amazed at the linguistic capabilities of many of this younger generation.

[galactic_hedgehog]

(Heard outside of my office) After an explanation of a math problem reviewed in class that proved complicated and intricate, the student's friend replied, quite succinctly, "Duuuuude." 

I'm consistently amazed at the linguistic capabilities of many of this younger generation.

Ahem.

[foodieabd]

Brilliant!

[galactic_hedgehog]

Brilliant!

Dude.

[sikora]

Brilliant!

Dude.

D-u-u-d-d-de.

He gets it, he says "sweet." "Awsome" is so turn of the century.

[didotwite]

Overheard (by the senior faculty member with an office next to mine).  Me, I had to participate in this conversation directly:

Me: (upon seeing a student erasing his name from a sign-up sheet for a conference appointment slot for this afternoon): StudentX, you don't intend to come the conference?

StudentX:  No, I just changed times.  You said we could. 

Me: You appear to have signed up for a conference at 8am today.  (Pause) That was two hours ago.

StudentX:  Well, nobody else picked it, and I got things to do today.

Me:  You are signing up to meet with me in the past, however.

StudentX:  Oh, well, I was here then, you know, 'cause I knew nobody else picked it.  So I should get credit for that. 

Me:  I was here at 8am this morning.  With my office door open.  You weren't here.

StudentX:  Well, I want to get out of here.  Can't we just say we met already?

[Senior colleague bursts out laughing, then explains the term "Honor Code Violation" and "Minimal Respect."  StudentX decides to come to his scheduled appointment after all.  He has an excellent pout.]

[polly_mer]

I can only say one thing to that "Whoa, Dude!"

[mountainguy]

Didowite, it's a good thing that student wasn't one of mine. I would have been tempted to say: "You mean you've invented a time machine? Cool! Let's see how it works." Or in the words of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, "totally awesome, dude!"

[ufo_tofu]

Overheard (by the senior faculty member with an office next to mine).  Me, I had to participate in this conversation directly:

Me: (upon seeing a student erasing his name from a sign-up sheet for a conference appointment slot for this afternoon): StudentX, you don't intend to come the conference?

StudentX:  No, I just changed times.  You said we could. 

Me: You appear to have signed up for a conference at 8am today.  (Pause) That was two hours ago.

StudentX:  Well, nobody else picked it, and I got things to do today.

Me:  You are signing up to meet with me in the past, however.

StudentX:  Oh, well, I was here then, you know, 'cause I knew nobody else picked it.  So I should get credit for that. 

Me:  I was here at 8am this morning.  With my office door open.  You weren't here.

StudentX:  Well, I want to get out of here.  Can't we just say we met already?

[Senior colleague bursts out laughing, then explains the term "Honor Code Violation" and "Minimal Respect."  StudentX decides to come to his scheduled appointment after all.  He has an excellent pout.]

Good.
God.

[scheherazade]

Overheard (by the senior faculty member with an office next to mine).  Me, I had to participate in this conversation directly:

Me: (upon seeing a student erasing his name from a sign-up sheet for a conference appointment slot for this afternoon): StudentX, you don't intend to come the conference?

StudentX:  No, I just changed times.  You said we could. 

Me: You appear to have signed up for a conference at 8am today.  (Pause) That was two hours ago.

StudentX:  Well, nobody else picked it, and I got things to do today.

Me:  You are signing up to meet with me in the past, however.

StudentX:  Oh, well, I was here then, you know, 'cause I knew nobody else picked it.  So I should get credit for that. 

Me:  I was here at 8am this morning.  With my office door open.  You weren't here.

StudentX:  Well, I want to get out of here.  Can't we just say we met already?

[Senior colleague bursts out laughing, then explains the term "Honor Code Violation" and "Minimal Respect."  StudentX decides to come to his scheduled appointment after all.  He has an excellent pout.]

This reminds me of Demetri Martin:
"I got a time machine at home.  It only moves forward at regular speed.  It's essentially a cardboard box, and on the outside I wrote 'Time Machine' in Sharpie."

[llanfair]

Or Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin, writing a composition, says that he'd like to invent a time machine, so he could take himself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

[not_a_gradstudent1]

John*: Shall we sit on those squooshy chairs over there?

Joe*: Sure, but they're more cushy than squooshy!

John*: Squooshy, cushy, same thing.

Joe*: No, not really.


*not their real names.

[holyhush]

"She said she was gonna like just kill the b*tch if she attacks her again, and I was like, 'That's self defense, girl!'"

[big_giant_head]

Didowite, it's a good thing that student wasn't one of mine. I would have been tempted to say: "You mean you've invented a time machine? Cool! Let's see how it works." Or in the words of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, "totally awesome, dude!"

But remember, folks, one of our number has already invented a time machine.  She used it to create a situation in the past in which an unsuspecting freshpeep would in the future be unfairly accused of plagiarism.  So let's not jump to hasty conclusions, I say.

[big_giant_head]

Just now overheard:

Student worker in department office, plaintively, as if to the heavens: "Man!  What is the deal with the letter R?"

Dept Chair, feeling oddly ambushed, as he scurries to his office to shut the door: "Um.  I don't know."


Well, you hired him, man.  And I sit here now, wondering if the question was existential, metaphysical, practical, or simply the result of the student's attempt to read something in Russian.