A tip for students:
The lecturer that stands in front of eighty of you for a couple of hours each week, the one with the scruffy jeans and the Converse that you think she's too old to wear, the one that makes shit puns and laughs at her own jokes - well, laugh with her. She'll remember you fondly when she's marking your coursework.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:08, 14 replies)

Depends what you're...what she's teaching
I wouldn't get maths jokes, for e.g.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:12, closed)

You don't have to get them, you just have to laugh in the right places.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:15, closed)

RDRR?

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:29, closed)

I went to seven lectures
in my entire time at university, which isn't a great record. However, the benefit of such a selective approach is that I do remember each of those seven in great detail.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 11:23, closed)

fuck
you've been to one of my first year physics lectures, haven't you?

i'm even wearing sodding converse today...

*cries*
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 13:57, closed)

Ha! You got that voucher for Converse in your PhD graduation pack too then?

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 16:34, closed)

To be honest
when there's well over a hundred of them in the room, you really struggle to remember who's supposed to be there, let alone any of their names...

It still amazes me just how petrified they seem to come down to the front and do something in front of their friends... They seem full of confidence outside the lecture theatre. Where does it go? When you do get someone down, it usually goes really well.
(dxg, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 21:18, closed)

I struggle to remember the names of my tutees.
There's no way I can ever remember who's supposed to be in what lecture. To be fair, most of them don't know where they're supposed to be either.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 16:09, closed)

This
is very true. I once got a bonus point from my journalism tutor for using the phrase "in cahoots" which happened to be her favourite.
(bobman500 enjoys a grope as much as the next fella, Fri 19 Aug 2011, 22:53, closed)

I once got a drawing of a yacht
I kid you not.

The answer went something like "I have run out of things to say so here is a drawing of a yacht."

I didn't give it any marks.
(dxg, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 18:43, closed)

Haha
On an exam last year I got "There is an hour left in this exam and I have done all that I can, therefore here is a drawing of a crab smoking a cigarette. It took me 15 minutes. I hope you like it. I'm off to have some cake now"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 13:56, closed)

But be careful not to mock them
I don't know what effect it had on my overall grade when I told our Argentinian physics lecturer that the missing mass in a relativity problem had "been put there by the hand of God", but I suspect it was not good.
( MatJ LOOK, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 11:57, closed)

So, so true
Also the ones who actually talk during seminars often get better grades for coursework.

And yes, laugh at my jokes, even if they are crap.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 20 Aug 2011, 22:24, closed)

Unless you're older than me
you're not too old to wear converse while lecturing.

please please let this be true....
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 23 Aug 2011, 13:55, closed)