The Top 8 Signs Your
Lecture Is Boring Your Students

8> You think Ben Stein played the animated, wacky teacher in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

7> By the end of the class, four students have managed to give themselves concussions, beating their heads against their desks.

6> Another day, another faked heart attack.

5> Even the girl who’s putting out for grades is asleep.

4> No, they’re not doing probability homework, they’re just shooting craps.

3> No one commented on your demonstration of harmonic interference, even though you got the nipple tassels to counter-rotate.

2> All your students have these weird white wires coming out o

their ears.

and the Number 1 Sign Your Lecture is Boring Your Students…

1> Your customary last words are, “I’m through, wake up!”

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Credits:

Selected from 58 submissions from 14 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Guy Payne, Auburn University — 1 (5th #1!)
Scott E. Gluck, UC Santa Barbara — 2,
HM List Name
James Knowles, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo — 3
Kevin van Houten, Texas, University of Texas — 4
Scott Witmer, Penn State — 5, 7
Michele Lord, U of NE Lincoln — 6
Kate Melnyk, Salem State College — 7
Rabbi Crut, BGSU — 8
Kevin Freels, Walnut Creek, CA — RU List Name
Brandon Eldridge, St. Louis College of Pharmacy — RA on Duty
Lucia “The Tranimal” Tranel,
St. Louis College of Pharmacy — Ambience