• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    And then everyone clapped/applauded?

    Edit: okay I’m just not familiar with thise kind of nice & funny things. I grew up in Sweden. We don’t step out of bound there. Like at all. Good for you though! Cheers!

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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      Only if you’ve never been to small-class-size college. “College professor takes a lesson to do something eccentric instead of the class curriculum” happened in at least one class at least once a semester. You uh, learn a lot about your professors.

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        can confirm. community colleges tend to have a lot of professors that give a damn. (and some absolutely batshit ones as well. you gotta take the bad with the good)

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      I once had a teacher take us all down the pub

      Another who decided the lesson would be best spent in the woods and we didn’t get any work done

      Another you could distract by getting him talking about the Simpsons and barely do any work

      My history teacher used to make us role play as Romans and wear togas

      Like these things happen all the time

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      My Russian professor one year had an after-semester dinner party at her own house, complete with some of her family and friends showing up to play traditional music and teach us about the foods they made and stuff. There was indeed dancing and instruction of such, as well. And yes, everyone clapped, because that’s a traditional way to keep beat with music, especially music meant for movement.

      It was a really small class, but all the same, that sort of thing does happen, especially with language teachers in my experience, because they also want to teach culture. Those were most of my coolest (other than my very wacky physics prof).

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      I’ve never had anything this extreme happen, but I did once have a professor who realized that the lesson he was teaching was difficult and boring and, at the end of it, said that he was going to cancel the quiz and to not study hard this weekend because, “if you study too hard, your brain will explode and you’ll die.”

      I had a lot of trouble understanding your accent, Dr. Tran, and math is super hard for me, but much respect for that.