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mikebart101
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Hippie Calculus Teacher
#6037853 - 09/07/06 09:00 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Well I thought id just share this with you guys. Since its September I'm back at college and have just met all of my new professors. My calculus II professor is the man by far. He doesn't bring anything to class ever except for photocopies of our math book for himself and handouts for the rest of the class. This guy teaches completely by memory and its quite impressive. Throughout the class he constantly goes off on tangents about life and how everyone is the same and yet we are all different. He always asks if what he is doing is OK for everyone else and if they are comfortable with what he is doing. One more thing, this guy never stops laughing and I mean never. The dead giveaway to his past had to be the first class though. He comes in like 10 minutes late and right away I noticed that he looked exactly like Timothy Leary which got my attention. Instead of talking about the course he told us that he was the most non-religious person hes ever known and that when you come into his classroom you leave the outside world behind because it is a frightening place. "Respect is the most basic form of civility", he kept on saying, and "you don't have to go far in society to see just how corrupted and horrible the outside world has become". Furthermore, while talking about the overall course he stated, "none of you really need to listen to me. After all, I'm just a hippie from the sixties. I had my head in the clouds when I was your age" That sealed the deal. This guy is definitely the man. I wish I could go up to him and ask if he would like to trip. LOL I don't care if I learn anything about calculus in his class. He just brings an energy into the room that is great. Thought this was pretty cool and that id share it with you guys.
-------------------- So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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Simisu
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Re: Hippie Calculus Teacher [Re: mikebart101]
#6037859 - 09/07/06 09:08 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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i like meeting people with that kind of positive vibe... it makes you wonder what it is inside of them that makes them seem so rediant and present 
welcome the the shroomery
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Akamatsu
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Re: Hippie Calculus Teacher [Re: mikebart101]
#6037860 - 09/07/06 09:09 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sounds pretty cool, I had a similar experience with a calculus professor affectionately known as 'Pembo'. Raving mad, but hilarious and quite insightful. His knowledge of mathematical theory was frightening. It was pretty interesting hearing him pay out all the authors of our text books, he knew most of them personally.
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BlindLemon
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Re: Hippie Calculus Teacher [Re: Akamatsu]
#6037999 - 09/07/06 10:34 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Haha, I smoked weed with my stats teacher... but hes like 26 years old. He started a club in which people dicuss "the universe and the reality we each experiance it in".
lol
and my teacher goes of on these huge tangents too...
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HELLA_TIGHT
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Re: Hippie Calculus Teacher [Re: mikebart101]
#6038049 - 09/07/06 10:55 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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My anthropology teacher was pretty hippie. He canceled class one day because he had gone to the Sierra Nevada music festival the day before.
And my current history teacher said something about an acid flashback.
Also, at work, I was scanning this guys computer for a virus and he had some live GD shows.
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RoosterCogburn
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Re: Hippie Calculus Teacher [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#6038141 - 09/07/06 11:24 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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All educators should be so positive. The problem with the US today is the ridiculous education our children receive at the hands of negative teachers... Not all, I know some great teachers, but too fucking many.
Make sure you know he's cool before bringing anything up. Nothing can be worse than divulging your habit to someone who is not cool with it, and in a position of power. But hey, if it looks like a duck... 
Good Luck!
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BlindLemon
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then it quacks?
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RoosterCogburn
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Re: Hippie Calculus Teacher [Re: BlindLemon]
#6038280 - 09/07/06 12:14 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I was going for...
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and sounds like a duck... It's probably a duck. Meaning that if the professor looks like a mushroom eating hippie, walks like a mushroom eating hippie and sounds like a mushroom eating hippie, he probably is a mushroom eating hippie.
But it's best to know FOR SURE he is before offering to trip.
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Great Scott
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Sounds like a gem. I had a geometry teacher in 10th grade who would go on tangents. One time he squandered 20 minutes telling us stories about his college daze in the 70's. Apparently he was really hammered and drove his pickup truck through a dry grass field. The tailpipe came loose and was dragging on the ground. It hit some rocks, creating sparks, and started a huge dry grass fire. Several dozen acres burnt to a crisp. My friend's dad went to the same school, around the same time, and verified that this fire really did happen. He says the authorities never found out how it got started.
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toastandjam
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Re: Hippie Calculus Teacher [Re: Great Scott]
#6038469 - 09/07/06 01:23 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Excellent luck in professors! Get to know him loosely, let him make suggestions or drop hints perhaps. Choose your words very carefully so as to create innuendo that really only those in the know, with their minds in that particular gutter (not really gutter) would pick up on. It's worked like a charm in my past.
In highschool I had a government teacher that would go into extensive rants about the links between big business and big government and law and native propoganda and previous CIA experiments on citizens and all manner of other good stuff. At the time, I was re-reading PIHKAL and it came up in conversation, this giant tome I had been carrying around. I ended up loaning it to him and thoroughly enjoyed watching the bookmark move down through the book over the next couple weeks on his desk.
-------------------- Q: We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons... and for one brief moment, you did. PICARD: When I realized the paradox... Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you'd never considered. That's the exploration that awaits you...not mapping stars and studying nebulae... but charting the unknowable possibilities of existence. To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening. -Dogen Zenji
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