Friday, 23 May 2014

College Students Reveal The Most Cringeworthy Things They've Heard In Class




A recent reddit thread encouraged students to vent about the most cringeworthy things they’ve heard their fellow students say during class — and the results are hysterical.


Across various academic disciplines, students highlighted the funniest questions and answers they’ve heard in class. Here are some of the worst:


Law School Students in the Classroom 2011Popcorn trees?


“A student in my friend’s veterinarian program wanted to know what would grow if you planted popcorn kernels outside.” — AllyGambit


Directionally challenged.


“‘Is longitude the one with the globe, or the one with the mountains?’ She apparently confused longitude with latitude and, by extension, altitude.” — RikVanguard


A public service.


“We were asked in basic econ what was a public good that we use almost everyday. No one answered, so the teacher hinted with, ‘It is delivered Monday through Saturday.’ Immediately the girl sitting next to me yelled, ‘Sidewalks!?’” — Gary_l_collins


Kim Jong-psy.


“‘The leader of North Korea looks like Psy. What’s his name? Like Genghis Khan or something?’” — EggmanJunior


Reaching enlightenment.


“During a discussion about reincarnation: ‘What if you got reincarnated as, like, a wasp, and you were like “I don’t like wasps!” and stung yourself?’” — k80co


Students Test Classroom ExamAlways take notes.


“I was in an American History course and we were discussing the 1930′s (and had been for a number of classes) when a girl who sat up front, who always arrived early and took very eager notes, raised her hand and asked … ‘What’s an F.D.R.?’” — DoctorStein


It’s “dinero.”


“In my Spanish class: ‘I thought Dolores was a name! Not money!’” — TheeOmegaPi


Meet your meat.


“‘Wait wait … you have to kill cows to get their meat? I thought they had a meat compartment!’” — BaLLiSToPHoBiC


Where French babies come from.


“In my French class there was a boy who asked, ‘How do babies from France learn to speak french? How is that possible when they’re just infants?’ … He seemed to assume every baby, everywhere was simply born speaking English. And the look on his face when our teacher tried to explain this was not the case was just heartbreaking. His mind was blown that day.” — silkyroidrage


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