Sarah Lawrence Teacherisms

Ridiculous/funny/awesome things that Sarah Lawrence professors say.

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Hello, sudden hundreds of notes! This blog is not dead, we simply haven't received submissions for years. If anyone has any SLC Teacherisms they'd like to share, by all means do.

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Are you interested in Interrogating God? Ha! I always have fun asking that.

Joe Lauinger, Interview for “Interrogating God: Tragedy/Divinity”

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You can have a worksheet, too! Do you know what a worksheet is?

Sam Seigle

(to me, sitting in on my friend’s Greek class)

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It can be either good or bad! We don’t know! Kind of like the food at Sarah Lawrence…

Sam Seigle, talking about the Greek word for “medicine”/“poison” probably

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It’s *gah*-ma! You sound like a sorority girl!

Sam Seigle

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It’s inflexible… like men…

Gwenda-lin Grewal

(she meant “people” but said it so gravely, so directly to my feminist heart)

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Hey SLC Teacherisms followers– I just exchanged emails with the patron goddess of this blog in which she roundly cursed the election. It made me feel a lot better. If you've had some funny, comforting, or inspiring conversations with your professors in the past two days, I think we could all stand to hear them right about now.

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I’m the strongest, biggest, meanest motherfucker out there and I can beat anybody.

Danny Kaiser

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He has the round thing and she has the pointy thing!

Ann Lauinger

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Chinese medicinal practices didn’t ASK you to eat hallucinogens

Ellen Neskar 

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What, do you think I’m god? Does god look like THIS?

Ann Lauinger

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…I think I used to drink this when I used to smoke pot.

Carol Pelletier commenting on the deeply strange soda, Moxie

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Your hydrogens are looking rather unhybridized as well. And that’s a personal comment.

Colin Abernethy discussing the lies of valence bond theory.

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Freud! Think about Freud!

James Horowitz during a discussion on “The Rape of the Lock”

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Who died and made Gawain the pope of love?

Ann Lauinger

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What are you looking at me like that for? This is the product of 1000 years of exegesis!

Ann Lauinger, on the class’s reaction to a particularly strange interpretation of Biblical text.

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You guys still listen to Nina Simone? Maybe there’s hope for your generation after all.

Vijay Seshadri