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"Hurricanes are the mix-masters of the big bathtub that is the ocean" - Prof. Mark Leckie, Geo 103
Discussing how hurricanes redistribute heat so that the tropics don't get overheated.

The Tourism Industry: It's all about the money.
in hrta 130 during lecture

"Every function that is different, is different." - Prof. Ernie Manes, Math 245 Discussing derivatives of several functions


"You don't have 8 types of shoes in 4 dimensional space, only left and right shoes. There are many types of matricies, but at least there are only 2 types of shoes." - Prof. Ernie Manes. Math 245
Discussing n dimensional space and feet.......don't ask why., I don't even know.

"The answer is:
1 0 0 x
0 1 0 x
0 0 1 x
where x is just some number I am too lazy to calculate" - Prof. Ernie Manes Math 245


He [Walt Whitman] wanted to get out from under the foot of iambic pentameter. Forgive the pun.
Prof. Tracy AF-AM 234.

"I hate those f@#$%&g polar bears."
- Prof. Norman (math 245), pretty loud right before a test when he found out there was another polar bear problem he had to correct.

"Hello, have you been kneed in the crotch?"
Professor Mike Egan, Shakespeare Prof- He asked this of a male student late to class after we had been discussing how a kick to the groin is much worse than portrayed in the movies...in real life you DON'T GET UP.

A Hippocampus is not a place where hippos go to school...
- Professor Libby Kohler, Psych 241

What does a 600 pound gorilla get to do? Whatever it wants!
Professor Kramer, Political Science 111H, he was explaining the power of an autocratic system

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