snyder quotes:
"this is a routine, just like baking pancakes, you gotta do it"
"systems is like a water buffalo"
"i've been accused of claiming the whole word can be represented by springs and dashpots"
more to come
His other notorious moments are just stoping the lecture mid sentence and walking out for his cigratte break. Picking up the tape recorder someone is using to record the lecture with, and then continues with the class, holding the recorder about a foot from his mouth, before giving the tape recorder back after five or ten minutes, or just picking it up whenever he is making a really important point. Also he just continues to write even after he hits the end of the chalk board.
I will write more of them down, they are great. he is probably the coolest teacher i have ever had, for sure in college, but i liked mr. carter a lot too. pete would say it is because he is am MIT grad, but i think it is because he failed his first two years at MIT and later taught elementary school (he says they were smarter than us) at some point after getting two phd's.
I know these don't seem that funny, but hopefully i will be able to include a picture and sound clip, maybe it would make the image of him complete. chuck might be able to explain it better but he saw him on a pretty tame day. It says a lot about a teacher when nobody shows up late to his class, and the room (100+) is dead quite before he even finds the chalk.
I am just getting ready for nationals, i just need to shoot an 1143 so that i can break mary's record and my record, and so that i am not embarrased at nationals. I really want to go backpacking though, i am still thinking about doing the PCT this year, hopefully by writing it here it will actually get me to commit to it. everybody keep me acountable, i need to finish at least one thing i try to start.
Posted by cmorton at February 28, 2003 04:23 PM