December 2, 2005

  • Its official, I’ll be teaching Human Anatomy at Indiana
    University/Purdue University Columbus next semester.

    I’m looking forward to it . . . the opportunity to take young
    impressionable minds and fuck with them.

    Just kidding; well, not really.  I’ll fuck with them.   My goal is to make human anatomy so interesting
    that they learn it in depth despite their apathy.

    When I worked full time at our local hospital I had a
    reputation for giving a hard time (fucking with, in a non-threatening way) to
    the radiological technology students learning their craft there.  Once, after asking a new student a question
    that there was really no correct answer to, she pointed her finger at me and
    said “I’ve heard about you!”  (I was also
    the only radiologist that was ever asked to speak at one of the graduation
    ceremonies by the students.  The
    administration reluctantly agreed despite their fear of what I might say.  I didn’t disappoint the students that asked
    me to speak, or fail to cause the administration the discomfort they were
    anticipating during the talk).

    Yep, I’m gonna fuck with them and hopefully teach them
    something.

    I’m excited, but sweating it too.  I already know this stuff, but I bet I’ll
    spend four hours preparing for every one hour the students invest in studying,
    just to try and make this course one they’ll remember.  (Hey, one of these days, one of these
    students might be putting a catheter in me so this is not completely altruistic).

    Bertrand Russell said: “Man is not born stupid, he’s born
    ignorant.  He’s made stupid by that which
    he’s taught.”  My goal will be to not
    make anyone stupid.  Anything beyond that
    will be golden!

Comments (8)

  • Dude I think I would respect being in your class that is awesome...

  • Good for you, I bet you will be an awesome teacher.  I always enjoyed the ones who screwed with us.. oh and dont forget to get back to me on that nipple thing, LOL

  • good luck.

  • congratulations! want to head down to texas for a year and a half? i'm so jealous. i wish i had a professor like you for my physiology class. the guy i have is nice, as a person, but as a professor, he sucks like a vaccuum.
    i would take your class in a heartbeat.
    ps: i'm only (hopefully) going to have two senior years.

  • Forgive my ignorance, but aren't students at a university at least 18 years of age? One would have thought that you would be telling them very little that they were not already aware of. Nevertheless, I wish you well fronting up to the future gentry.

  • I agree with your view of the war in Iraq, but I still think your basic logic is flawed. Forcing all citizens to take up arms without considering basic civil liberties, like those guaranteed in the first amendment, is a long, long, long way from a democratic solution. Militarism has always succumbed to the forces of democracy. Always. I think we’ll see the tide turn within the next year. I know it’s easy for me to write this from a comfortable chair when I could be eating Baghdad sand, waiting for the next IED to call my name. But, those warriors that are dying (I saw ten Marines in Falluja just yesterday) are fighting because they believe in our way of life. I just don't see how your proposal fits into American Deomcracy. It strips away rights.
     
    Good luck teaching. From what I understand it’s a tough thing to do. I am considering a career in that field. I hope it goes well for you.

  • What the world needs more passionate teachers. Yay! Congratulations!

  • way to go Bob!!! Maybe you can teach em some of that chat lingo too! ROTFLMAO! jk, jk I'm excited for you!  I would love to be in your class!  I'm sure it will be a great learning experience for everyone involved!

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