New Members Added: 93/1000 Skip to content Try Ads-Free Fark It's Not News, It's Fark How To FarkLog In | Sign Up » Forgot password? Turn on javascript (or enable it for Fark) for a better user experience. If you can read this, either the style sheet didn't load or you have an older browser that doesn't support style sheets. Try clearing your browser cache and refreshing the page. Discussion Entertainment CSB Sunday Morning: The one class you took that you'll never forget (fark.com) More: CSB, Newspaper, Student, Australia, MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones, Subscription business model, main text, community members, Sausage 61 clicks;posted toMain »and Discussion »on 27 Apr 2025 at9:00 AM(17 minutes ago) | Favorite | Watch | share: Copy Link 19 Comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. View Voting Results:SmartestandFunniest Nicholas D. Wolfwood (4) Funniest 6 hours ago I'll never forget my MCSE training classes. We were in class all day on September 11, 2001. (9) Funniest 5 hours ago It was a college course, The History of Cartoon Art, taught by this guy. I took the class in the spring of 1982. There were only 3 students in the class, including myself. The main text was The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, a large book that I still own. The highlight was visiting MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones at his studio in the Crescent Heights neighborhood of L.A. I remember that his car had a VIVA MAD license plate. Since there were only 3 students, Aragones drew caricatures of each of us on large sheets of newsprint. Mine is somewhere in Mom's garage. I should find it and have it framed. We were also given copies of this small poster: (3) Funniest High school physics. My lab partner's cleavage held my attention all year long. Eventually married her. (0) Funniest I remember show and tell in sixth grade one time, almost like a class in itself. A kid brings in a Tommy Hilfiger jacket and says he found it in lost and found and it was not claimed for a while so he took it. The teacher called him out for stealing which became a lesson to all of us for why you don't steal. brachiopod (1) Funniest Al Chiscon's Social Impact of Biology. Two semesters for non-bio majors. At first glance you might think it was some lame filler. Nope. He covered all the hard-core fundamentals that intersect with medicine, mores, and public policy. What I learned in that course informed my decisions about getting married, adopting, and health care, and informed my positions on pollution, addiction, and gender. Easily the most significant courses I've had the pleasure of taking. (1) Funniest It was just as much about the professor as it was the class - and it was absolutely life-changing. He was a department-defining professor, still is, and he had a 2-semester research methods class that was a complete revelation to me. That sounds insane, I know, but I wasn't alone. You know that scene in Better Off Dead when Vincent Schiavelli is waxing poetic about geometry and the students are all enthralled? That was how this professor's classes were. He was incredibly engaging. The material was dry but he made it essential and folks were PRESENT. He had a lab he built from the ground up and he hand-picked his best students to staff it. We managed the hardware and software, sure, but all department students needed to eventually use this lab for at least one of their classes (usually several), so we helped all students with all coursework. That meant we had to know all the coursework. It was an incredible opportunity to rapidly expand our skill sets, knowledge, and experience. It was a huge honor to be asked to staff the lab. And it paid well! Anyway - from the first day of the first semester of that 2-semester research methods class, I knew what I wanted to be paid to do for the rest of my life. Decades later, I was training a team on some things and noticed one of the team members had a laniard from the school. I asked, she answered, one thing led to another and yep, she also worked in his lab. I've never so immediately trusted someone's expertise and dedication in my life. I mailed him and told him. I hope that made his day :) If they're still around, mail those professors who changed your life. Tell them. And go watch Better Off Dead again. They don't make movies like that anymore. (1) Funniest Lorelle: It was a college course, The History of Cartoon Art, taught by this guy. I took the class in the spring of 1982. There were only 3 students in the class, including myself. The main text was The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, a large book that I still own. The highlight was visiting MAD Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragones at his studio in the Crescent Heights neighborhood of L.A. I remember that his car had a VIVA MAD license plate. Since there were only 3 students, Aragones drew caricatures of each of us on large sheets of newsprint. Mine is somewhere in Mom's garage. I should find it and have it framed. We were also given copies of this small poster: [Fark user image image 364x480] This is a m a z i n g brachiopod (3) Funniest Al is also a real hero. Marched in the south as part of the civil rights movement at great personal cost. Cafe Threads (0) Funniest 54 minutes ago It was my first Lamaze course. Pretty boring, although the time the instructor pushed a baby doll through a quilted pelvis and the doll's head popped off left us shocked speechless in fear for quite a while. Then the day came when we were all gathered in one room to watch the movie of the C-section. Two dozen couples. All the women very pregnant. We settle down in our seats, which means that two dozen babies suddenly wake up and start spinning inside their wombs. We are all quiet as the room darkens and the movie begins. All of us women are struggling hard to stay awake; we haven't slept much lately. And then the baby is born onscreen. It is pulled out of the incision...and then the damn thing quacked. I'm not even kidding. This baby was born onscreen and came out of the womb and started quacking. That is when I lost it. I started laughing hysterically right there in this quiet room full of half-asleep people. Luckily, my birth coach was on point. He dragged me down the hall to an empty break room and let me have the hysterics I was incapable of stopping. I absolutely broke down. My main point, that I remember repeating ad infinitum to my coach in between gasps for air, was, "I didn't go through all this just to give birth to a damn DUCK!" (2) Funniest 33 minutes ago Last year and term of high school I took what I thought would be an easy class: sports medicine. On the first day the teacher says, "this class is hard and I'll be hard on you. If you want to drop, come see me after class." When the class was over, there was a line to have her sign your drop form. I was the last one in line and watched her sign everybody's form. When it was just me left, I stepped up to the desk, held out my form and said i needed to drop. She started bustling around her desk and the clsssroom and cheerfully replied, "no." What? But - Nope! You're taking this class. But you said it's hard. I won't pass. You'll pass and you'll get an A. I don't wanna. Too bad, you're not dropping! You'll do great. See you tomorrow! That last term of my senior year was the first time I pulled a 4.0 GPA. I'm glad she didn't let me be lazy. (2) Funniest 21 minutes ago It was a sophomore-level engineering course, and not because of the subject material so much as it was how the course was conducted by the professor in question. Old guy that had been there forever - by the time I had him he had been a professor for forty-five years. Total curmudgeon, had (generally unflattering) nicknames for all students, and was quite the misogynist. His course was graded on ten pop quizzes plus a final exam that counted the same as a pop quiz. So missing a pop quiz was basically a letter-grade reduction in your final grade in the class... and he accepted no excuse for missing a quiz. He would let you skip the final if you had taken all pop quizzes and were satisfied with your grade, but if you missed a single quiz the final was mandatory. He was determined to make sure that zero on the missed quiz counted. He was also clever enough to stagger his pop quizzes across his class sections, so the early morning class could not warn the later morning classes that a quiz was coming. Taught me to stay on top of things and to dig deep to figure out things that I didn't understand, because you were always on a deadline. That one professor changed my study habits for my entire college career, which I think was what he was ultimately trying to teach us sophomores. When he passed away he requested no funeral and he donated his body to science... probably because he wanted to give one final pop quiz to a medical student. SloppyFrenchKisser (1) Funniest less than a minute ago Chemistry, Junior year of HS. Met my first real girlfriend there. We had good chemistry. Gumball T Watterson (4) Funniest less than a minute ago International Security and Strategic Studies. Taught by Janos Radvanyi. He only came in for about half the lectures but when he did it was history came alive as he told first-hand stories of the cold war. He loved teaching and called the students his children. I met him many times after the course was complete and he was a kind man who loved his life after he defected. Eunice's Social Calendar (0) Funniest less than a minute ago typing in high school. many times i thought back to that class as it was helping me do shiat better than I could without it. oddly gets really noticeable when technology allows for "instant" communication in work chats...seconds turn into hours as idiots type whargarbl back to you like oscar madison...though he was pretty fast. the one thing that allowed me to feel superior! i would have been a tyrant office manager...good thing I can't organize shiat. or spell. oh, math was cool too...typing and math...yeah dead man's hand. economist! (0) Funniest less than a minute ago High school, I took the inaugural "Sports Statistics" elective. Seniors only, prerequisite being that students already took "regular" statistics. We put on SportsCenter for the first 5-10 minutes to observe how ESPN was correctly (or incorrectly) using statistics. It was during spring, so we ran March Madness. Had to come up with a predictive bracket, and also got to get the entire senior class of 700+ to fill out brackets (on paper, this was 2006) which we hand-scored for analysis purposes. Moneyball was assigned reading. We learned about the fallacy of a baseball hitter "being due" because of misuse of the "law of averages" For the final project we could pick any sports statistics topic. I chose to evaluate the impact of the DH on baseball. Again, since it was 2006, the NL didn't have DH yet, so it was an excellent control. I did not find any meaningful difference between AL and NL, but I did find a statistically significant increase in HRs across both leagues starting in the early to mid 90s (start of the steroid era). I'm sure over the next 17 years that course was taught, it got even more polished. The same teacher ended up starting an election stats elective for the fall, based on early Nate Silver, but that was after my time. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Eunice's Social Calendar: typing in high school. many times i thought back to that class as it was helping me do shiat better than I could without it. I only learned to type well because there was a cute girl in the class who sat in the first row and she was REALLY good! So of course I thought I could get her attention if I was ALSO good. I actually did do pretty well in the end. With typing. Not with the girl. She never noticed me. Don't remember her name. I guess I just wrote her off because if you can't woo a girl with your mad typing skills you have to take your lumps and move on. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago (0) Funniest less than a minute ago "Poetry of Music." It was high school, and it was an easy writing credit. The teacher was absolutely cool and we got our choices of music to analyze. I did my thesis paper in that class on Fleetwood Mac's Rumours; luckily, People magazine had run a story about it a few months before, which I had devoured and remembered most of. So I got a pretty good grade. From that day forward, I never took lyrics at face value ever again. (0) Funniest less than a minute ago Necromancer Displayed 19 of 19 comments Enable JavaScript for Fark in order to vote for entries. Log in (at the top of the page) to enable voting. 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