Did any ex students ever do this?
Not just any lecturer, but one of the ones who actually seemed to care a little about what they were teaching.
Such a bad idea in some ways (hello bleary eyes and sore head this morning), but a great one in others.
We have a fairly young International Relations lecture, who's a real hardcore philosophical anarchist (think Bakunin, Proudhon, that kinda thing), and we dragged him out to the union bar after our last lecture yesterday. It was really good fun, strangely enough. Highlights included him slagging off two of my classmates, calling Gramsci and Marx 'pilfering cunts', and telling us about not only the time he studied under Scott Thomas and Ken Booth (big shit if you like IR) but also how he used to work as a chef in Australia, and went to see Spiceworld: The Movie on acid. Genuinely interested in what we had to say and in making us argue about anything or everything. And then tried to make us join the IWW (anarchist worldwide union). Plus he bought me two pints which are currently threatening to make me go back to bed.
What were your lecturers like at uni? Anyone famous? Any fun stories?
yeah all the time
i did drugs with one actually!
and a couple of the others, we went for drinks sometimes.
one lecturer used to bring a box of wine in for the seminar.
i think it's better like that, then them being all distant and stuff
*than
Mine were nothing special.
One was the chair of the Institue of Chemical Engineers for a while and another was on Tomorrows World once.
But some of my friends lecturers had the best names ever:
Prof Muffy Calder
Dr W Paul Cockshott
Dr Simon J Gay
Dr David F Manlove
And I am not joking:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/contacts/search.cfm?position=academic
Muffy Calder is an awesome name.
not until
the grad ball, at which i got blind drunk, thanked her profusely for giving me a 2:1, stole her red wine and informed her i thought she looked good for 34.
Surprisingly we still speak and i sometimes go out with her. I think she likes to get mangled on ketamine at techno nights.
IWW
Is great. I love them.
it's always a bit trickier if you're a girl...
myself and a few other mates, have been hit on by lecturers when we tried to get them to socialise. Some of them were old-ish too. erghhhhhh. A couple have been cool though.
being a letcherer would be awesome
ours are all old
it's kind of hard to imagine taking them out for drinks, in a non-awkward sense. It's cool that you did though.
Ha. This reminds me
All through one term this lecturer kept saying how in the last class they all just sat about drinking cans, cause they were the cool kids.
Well our final class came and guess what we decided would be a good idea? Yup, this guy was horrified. We even offered him a can of Stella Artois while he was giving us exam chat. He rather rudely took the can and saved it for later.
J
Sometimes they took me out for a drink
Sometimes I took them out. The result was always the same - TOP MARKS THAT BOY
you let them do you up the bum?
YES, THAT WAS THE JOKE
Top marks lemonbrickbilbo
I don't want Top Marks if they mean what I think they mean.
They mean SUCKCESS!
are you Sarah from Hollyoaks?
I don't understand the reference
Who is Sarah?
She sounds like a girl. I'm going to go with 'No'.
just to make sure
you're not sleeping with the lecturer are you? No mention either way in the original post. Also is your father both estranged and sleeping with a student called Zoe?
If the answer to either is no. Then rest assured you are not. Which is just as well cause her face is slowly caving in on itself.
He's male
I have a girlfriend. So no.
Is he called Roger though?
Promise I won't tell Elliot!
Only one of my lecturers ever liked/knew me
and I think I ruined that by turning up pissed to a senimar and basically slagging him off.
Happy days
one of my lecturers took our whole course out to our students union
....the lecture having around 300 people in it....
he said that because a book that he had written was on our reading list that we had to buy, he would buy everyone a pint, which was the equivalent of the profit he made on each book sold.
which was nice of him.
I had a couple of famous lecturers
Haleh Afshar
Alex Callinicos
Went for a drink with Callinicos a couple of times. He was...rather ranty.
who was that?
i vaguely remember this happening to me too!
or maybe that happened to a friend...
was it hutnyk? or brian morris?
james curran!
Power
without Responsibility?
that's it, yep
good writer.
Two pints and you're hungover?
You fucking lightweight.
added to the 7 I bought myself
bleaurgh. I can't be doing with drinking.
We'd go out from time to time with certain lecturers
None of them were famous - there are very few 'famous' designers - but most of them were American and they were certainly good in their field and didn't mind telling you about it.
When you're an 18 year old student, someone telling you they did some of the graphics on Fight Club makes them seem amazingly famous though.
My tutor at uni was Dr Alan Sked
The man who founded UKIP. Despite me not agreeing with his political stance (though I loved debating it with him because he set up the party to put across intelligent arguments against the EU - then the nutters took over and forced him out) he was an absolute legend. He always bailed me out of trouble. He loved an ale too. Once we did the SU pub quiz with him. We lost badly because he insisted the picture of Freddie Mercury was Lech Walesa.
One of our lecturers was Israeli and teetotal and she'd never experienced drinking culture before. So she used to take us out and get us plastered because she found it hilarious
my favourite lecturer
came along to a social/pub crawl once, it was amazing, or it would have been if I hadn't got wasted and refused to shut up because I wanted to make and impression on him and the third years
this thread should die
a very sorry death. and take me with it.
I found my lecturers last fm the otherday
he is 58 and the geekiest looking person in the world but he likes nurse with wound and stars of the lid, weird
It's weird how many old people appear to like
Nurse With Wound. I've met a couple of over 45's that listen to them/him as well
One of my lecturers is a PhD student
She's only in her mid-20s, and is Quite Attractive. And I've always thought it'd be cool to have one of those intellectual affairs.
i did maths