What we talk about in class
Jan. 27th, 2004 11:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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My Tuesday-Thursday classes are 100 minutes long, since they're only twice a week. It is customary for instructors to allow their students a few minutes' break in the middle, since 100 minutes is a lot.
During the break in my first class today, a couple people ended up talking about some kind of board game (I think) based on that "worst-case scenario" stuff. They told us that the funniest one was How to Escape if You're about to Be Abducted by Aliens. I think the game part is that you're given a couple of choices and you have to choose which option is correct, because they told us one of the wrong answers is "if you're hiking in the woods, go in groups of over seven people, because aliens never take more than seven."
Since this was wrong, we decided this must mean that aliens do indeed abduct more than seven people at a time.
Anyway, the right answer is supposedly "Simply think: 'Go away. Leave me alone. I have a virus.'" Who thinks of this stuff? Or, more importantly, does it work? We did not have time to delve into such questions before the professor came back and some attempt to return to translating "The Life of St. Æðeldryð" was made.
internetsdairy-style. So it is.)My Tuesday-Thursday classes are 100 minutes long, since they're only twice a week. It is customary for instructors to allow their students a few minutes' break in the middle, since 100 minutes is a lot.
During the break in my first class today, a couple people ended up talking about some kind of board game (I think) based on that "worst-case scenario" stuff. They told us that the funniest one was How to Escape if You're about to Be Abducted by Aliens. I think the game part is that you're given a couple of choices and you have to choose which option is correct, because they told us one of the wrong answers is "if you're hiking in the woods, go in groups of over seven people, because aliens never take more than seven."
Since this was wrong, we decided this must mean that aliens do indeed abduct more than seven people at a time.
Anyway, the right answer is supposedly "Simply think: 'Go away. Leave me alone. I have a virus.'" Who thinks of this stuff? Or, more importantly, does it work? We did not have time to delve into such questions before the professor came back and some attempt to return to translating "The Life of St. Æðeldryð" was made.
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Date: 2004-01-28 08:58 am (UTC)don't you ever wanna yell at teachers who don't give you breaks? arg, they bug me!
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Date: 2004-01-28 02:28 pm (UTC)Ho ho.