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    At the beginning of the year I like to choose a prof to have a crush on. It makes the year a little more enjoyable, and if you just want for a crush to develop the semester is over before you've really concentrated. So I got a crush on the completely wrong prof this semester. Last year I went with unspeakably brilliant; this semester I decided to go with handsome.

    Mistake. Big mistake. He was so handsome, and he must be a good lawyer, but god. So. Very. Boring. 8.30 on Friday morning - droning on and on in a complete monotone, essentially just putting the readings into point form. No wonder I was always on stripperweb.
    Horrible. But so nice looking. An alternative professor, not really handsome - much older and dorky looking, but really into the topic and very excited and pretty funny, has had to put up with me after pretty much every class going to the front of the room, sitting on his table and saying "Yeah, but..." gave me a smile on the last day that just had me kicking myself. Like - Dammit! This semester could have been SO much better. I completely should have gone with him.

    And that is what I get for choosing style over substance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny View Post
    At the beginning of the year I like to choose a prof to have a crush on.
    Jenny, do you find you learn more when you're having such a crush? There was a college English prof who drove us guys crazy because all the women in his class dreamed about him. He looked like a thinner version of the actor Allen Alda, wore these old, baggy sweaters, was extremely bright and very laid back. I never heard about him violating the teacher-student taboo, although I can't believe he was unaware of the impact he had on the adoring coeds. Now that I'm his age (probably older), I look back and understand how thoroughly cool he was.

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    I don't know that I learn more. It really just makes the semester more enjoyable. It's a coping mechanism.

    I know the prof I picked last year knew, because he was a fairly universal favourite.
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    I get crushes too...it does improve my grades, because I get this feeling of "Oh I don't want to disapoint him and make him believe I'm actually dumb", so I try harder than usual (sometimes). My first year I was in crazy teenage infatuation with this one guy, and he knew for sure. He'd all *wink* at me, and invite me for coffee...but then he saw how giddy and girly I truly am, plus freaked that I was only eighteen, and it ended. Then he moved to Texas. He was also a universally adored professor though.

    I have more mellow crushes on two other philosophy profs in the department...Lots of other girls do too (well on one of them anyway), but i don't act on it anymore. I don't know what it all means. It's never backfired...i really love their classes, but if they were boring, I probably would not crush on them. They can't be hideous, but I never like a prof who isn't interesting. Kinda the same for all guys actually. Maybe I'm too self-absorbed to be a lookist on anyone else.

    eta- behold the man in the avatar: my biggest philosophy crush of all time, were he not dead, and had I ever actually met him...very abstract crushes I guess

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    I have more mellow crushes on two other philosophy profs in the department...Lots of other girls do too (well on one of them anyway), but i don't act on it anymore.
    Funny, but I had a young, single philosophy prof in college who apparently was dating this hottie in his class. When she challenged him on some arcane point, he blushed. Cute. It was remarkable to watch. He was an attractive, if nervous, guy, probably only five years older than his students. He clearly had some issues being "the adult" in the room.

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    Actually, our philosophy department was scandalized a few years ago (before I went here) because of several profs being accused of sexual harassment. Apparently they went out drinking with students, and kept this book of female students willing to work for extra marks. There were several firings, but at least one or two of the implicated profs are still in the department. With all that said, you'd think they'd be more careful these days. And the respectable ones certainly are, but there's still...stuff going on. It's the Greek teacher-student tradition, hah, except now they teach girls too...soooo.

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    I dunno; obviously trading information or, for that matter having information on trading "work" for marks is harassment, or so close to harassment the distinction is irrelevant. But I always thought that in college, you could pretty much decide who you wanted to sleep with. I mean, you're an adult. As a professor, I would think that it puts you in a vulnerable position unless your department has stringent blinding policies, but I don't think it inherently victimizes the student.

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    Seriously? Profs make me barf. I dunno, problem with authority maybe. I can't imagine having a crush on a prof, no matter how hot or brilliant.

    Even less a TA. Cripes I dislike TA's...I'm going to have major issues when I am one, lol.

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    Oh, honey, school must be miserable for you. This is the only way I get through a semester. Well I've already posted that I crave approval, so I could just be the opposite of you in every way. I could be the anti-Scarlett. I could be... Deep Blue, or Melanie, depending on how you interpret.
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    Jenny, I do the same thing. I've found that if I like the teachers who are dorky and smart more than just attractive, I do a LITTLE better than if they're just attractive. Hehehe. I thought I was the only one who did this.
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    Your'e Melanie, haha, you meek thing.

    I do my studies distance ed, cuts down on the whole 'dealing-with-profs' thing.

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    I have a Grape Crush. We can trade?
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    my profs were quintessential academic geeks, except one... who made the girlies swoon. i didn't rate him much at all (he thought he was cool), but it was my duty as a 'strippah' to make him squirm and blush where possible.

    then it got awkward in tute class with him always tying his teaching back to what nautilus had been doing or drinking at the weekend... like the day i taught him what a mojito was...

    and yes, i managed to get out with a respectable mark. i even wrote cutesy bullshit notes at the end of my exam paper when i ran out of time *gag*. sometimes i hate myself

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    I had one in grad school who was in his sixties and had kids who were 10 years older than me (I was 23). He was just so fucking sexy and he radiated it! I had him for several classes and he would flirt with my friend and me sometimes. Unfortunately, he had just married a 21-year-old French girl two weeks before my first semester started (his fifth wife, I believe), and I was married too... bummer.

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    LOL, Jenny... I'm right there with you. It's always best to go with the insanely intelligent, witty and fun professors for your crushes. My last professor crush was an average looking guy, but he was such a dork with this awkwardness and crazy sense of humor, and it was SO sexy to me.

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    Yeah, I started out having a crush on my teachers especially this black haired gorgeous Wednesday Adams look-alike. I loved her lectures on Developmental Psych. But this jock who taught raquetball I had to have a taste of!! And I got it but he was in love with a woman his OWN AGE!!!! The nerve!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nautilus View Post
    my profs were quintessential academic geeks, except one... who made the girlies swoon. i didn't rate him much at all (he thought he was cool), but it was my duty as a 'strippah' to make him squirm and blush where possible.

    then it got awkward in tute class with him always tying his teaching back to what nautilus had been doing or drinking at the weekend... like the day i taught him what a mojito was...

    and yes, i managed to get out with a respectable mark. i even wrote cutesy bullshit notes at the end of my exam paper when i ran out of time *gag*. sometimes i hate myself

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny View Post
    At the beginning of the year I like to choose a prof to have a crush on. It makes the year a little more enjoyable, and if you just want for a crush to develop the semester is over before you've really concentrated. So I got a crush on the completely wrong prof this semester. Last year I went with unspeakably brilliant; this semester I decided to go with handsome.

    Mistake. Big mistake. He was so handsome, and he must be a good lawyer, but god. So. Very. Boring. 8.30 on Friday morning - droning on and on in a complete monotone, essentially just putting the readings into point form. No wonder I was always on stripperweb.
    Horrible. But so nice looking. An alternative professor, not really handsome - much older and dorky looking, but really into the topic and very excited and pretty funny, has had to put up with me after pretty much every class going to the front of the room, sitting on his table and saying "Yeah, but..." gave me a smile on the last day that just had me kicking myself. Like - Dammit! This semester could have been SO much better. I completely should have gone with him.

    And that is what I get for choosing style over substance.
    The answer is simple. Cut his legs off and hide him in the basement. Duh!

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    You know Madcap, I considered that. But people would miss him.
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