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"He once spent half an hour discussing his moth collection in extensive detail. This is a physics class, the lesson was about momentum." 5/5 I learned a lot about moths that semester.
"He walks into class everyday with two decanters of coffee and still has to occasionally leave in the middle of class to get it refilled. I've heard other teachers complain about their break room never having any coffee. One time he spilled an entire cup on a stack of papers he was grading, looked down at the mess, went silent for a bit, then cleared his throat and said "everyone gets a hundred." 5/5 that was my only hundred in the class.
"He's cool, he allows us to eat snacks in class. As long as it's not toffee peanuts. Can't imagine what he could possibly have against them." 5/5
"He's very picky about commas. I got an A- once solely because of "an irregular use of an oxford comma."" 4/5
"He thoroughly believes in the multiverse and talks about it as though he's lived through it himself. He offhandedly mentioned he knows how to build a quantum destabilizer (some type of gun?) yet doesn't know how to operate a laptop. He might be an alien." 5/5
"His office hours are atrocious I don't think he ever sleeps." 5/5
"He went surprisingly quiet when someone brought up the possibility of perpetual motion in class. You'll be good as long as you don't bring up the first two laws of thermodynamics. Or the puppet from Poppy Avenue. DON'T bring up the puppet from Poppy Avenue. I still haven't heard back from the guy that said Dr. Stanford looked an awful lot like that puppet." 5/5
"He types one key at a time. I'm talking keymashing each letter with his index finger. There was more than one occasion in which we just watched him type for minutes on end, pausing to take time to think through which key he'll press next." 3/5
"I once saw a whiteboard magnet get stuck to the side of his head. He might be a cyborg." 5/5
"He casually mentioned that his first car was taken by a tree, then refused to elaborate and went on with the lesson as normal. I don't think he meant a tree fell on it." 5/5
Hc that Ford gets a job at a local community college as a physics prof after he and Stan are done sailing around the world and fulfills his destiny as the eccentric professor he was always meant to be
And he quickly gains a reputation amongst the stem students as That Professor
I bet his ratemyprof reviews would be insane:
“He didn’t grade any of our homework until the end of the semester, but he brought something called a ‘plaidypus’ to class and let us pet it. Her name was Dorothy. 5/5”
“He constantly ranted about how ‘triangles are the most untrustworthy shape’ whatever that means. Also he doesn’t know how to use the internet. I hated his class. 5/5”
And many more iterations of “this guy is terrible. 5 stars”