Professors: Amino Acids

This year, we have a double-semester course about animal nutrition. At first, there was this cheerful old guy teaching us, but then we started a new topic and, with it, got a new lecturer.

His lectures were endless, life-sucking stretches of white slides with black text. He would agonizingly read out every bullet point, talking very slowly in an American accented drawl. He spent half an hour on a single slide one time. Going to his class really didn't offer much return on the time investment, because in your own time you could easily go over at least three of his lectures in the space of an hour. His slow speech did make me laugh out loud once, when he switched to a new slide and it sounded like a complete statement when he said, "This is another slide."

Unbelievably, he was teaching faster than he expected. Despite giving us enough information for half a lecture (especially if you compare to our other classes, such as fast forward textbook lady), he was well ahead of schedule. We got two classes off because of this.

One day, he had to be out of town, so he had a guest lecturer fill in. I guess he didn't trust that guy to have done a good job, because the next class, he spent a good portion of time going over what the guest lecturer had discussed.

I mentioned that he had an American drawl. However, his accent was a little funny. He pronounced amino acids as "am-eye-no" acids. Wait, what? I have never heard anyone pronounce them like that. "a-mee-no" or "ay-meeno" sure, but "am-eye-no"? He said it so often, it became his defining feature.