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> "Teach others what are you trying to teach yourself better" A joke in Russian universities: - A teaching assistant tells a student: "Look, I've been explain

> "Teach others what are you trying to teach yourself better" A joke in Russian universities: - A teaching assistant tells a student: "Look, I've been explaining it to you for so long, that I myself understood it!"

hinkley 2y ago
I tried to help some dude understand integration by parts, which I’m not sure I’d understood myself. I warned him. But it was late, he was desperate, and I was just going to go play computer games anyway. I figured it out, but I’ve no idea if I got him sorted out for his final.
082349872349872 2y ago
A joke in American universities: The professor is interrupted in the middle of his lecture by a student who asks about one of the previous week's problems: — Could you please work an example for us? — No problem! The professor writes a problem statement, then scratches his head, tugs on his collar, rubs his chin, and at last scribbles a complicated integral on the board. — There you go! — Excuse me, professor, but could you please be a little more explicit? — What do you want from me? I just did the problem 3 different ways.
- lupire 2y ago
  So the reason I have trouble in math is that I don't wear collared shirts, so I only get 2 ways to solve problems?
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Only getting 2 ways to solve it brings us back to russian jokes: A soviet maths prof finds out he'd make more money as a labourer in the shipyards, so after more than a few carefully-distributed bottles of vodka he manages to change profession. A month or two working in the yards, and he sees a notice on the bulletin board offering a bonus to workers who sign up for a special "maths for the proletariat" evening school course. Figuring it's easy money, he signs up, brings a novel, and sits in the back of the class reading instead paying attention. Then the prof calls him up to the brownboard, and asks him for the circumference of a circle. Suddenly, our ex-prof blanks. Frantically he scribbles and scribbles on the brownboard, only to wind up with ... -2πr. No, that can't be right, but what went wrong? Just when he's about to crack trying to figure out his error, he hears a friendly voice from one of the front-row students: — Psst, colleague, swap order of integration!

hinkley 2y ago

I tried to help some dude understand integration by parts, which I’m not sure I’d understood myself. I warned him. But it was late, he was desperate, and I was just going to go play computer games anyway. I figured it out, but I’ve no idea if I got him sorted out for his final.

082349872349872 2y ago

A joke in American universities: The professor is interrupted in the middle of his lecture by a student who asks about one of the previous week's problems: — Could you please work an example for us? — No problem! The professor writes a problem statement, then scratches his head, tugs on his collar, rubs his chin, and at last scribbles a complicated integral on the board. — There you go! — Excuse me, professor, but could you please be a little more explicit? — What do you want from me? I just did the problem 3 different ways.

lupire 2y ago
So the reason I have trouble in math is that I don't wear collared shirts, so I only get 2 ways to solve problems?
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Only getting 2 ways to solve it brings us back to russian jokes: A soviet maths prof finds out he'd make more money as a labourer in the shipyards, so after more than a few carefully-distributed bottles of vodka he manages to change profession. A month or two working in the yards, and he sees a notice on the bulletin board offering a bonus to workers who sign up for a special "maths for the proletariat" evening school course. Figuring it's easy money, he signs up, brings a novel, and sits in the back of the class reading instead paying attention. Then the prof calls him up to the brownboard, and asks him for the circumference of a circle. Suddenly, our ex-prof blanks. Frantically he scribbles and scribbles on the brownboard, only to wind up with ... -2πr. No, that can't be right, but what went wrong? Just when he's about to crack trying to figure out his error, he hears a friendly voice from one of the front-row students: — Psst, colleague, swap order of integration!