I had one of my professors show up to teach a night class, feeling unwell, not realizing he'd started having a heart attack earlier that night. He called a smoke break about 30 minutes in, talked for another 20 minutes, and then cancelled class. He went to the local small hospital, where he was told that he was having a heart attack and needed to take an ambulance to the cardiac ward in a hospital 2-3 hours away. He drove himself, so that he could smoke on the trip.
He lived about 6 years after that, still teaching, before dying of cancer. He'd been teaching for roughly 30 years, including a false sexual harassment claim from a student that came out in court, resulting in him getting tenure from the university. Oh, and he was stinking rich from having invested heavily in oil stocks before I was even born.
It was reassuring to me that there were still badass history teachers like him in my day and age.
darrellmarch on October 9th, 2019 at 00:20 UTC »
Do chopsticks keep the orange powder off your fingers? Genius. I must try this now.
Mydogatemyexcuse on October 9th, 2019 at 01:13 UTC »
I saw a classmate drinking NyQuil like a bottle of juice yesterday and had to step in before he experienced liver failure.
OniExpress on October 9th, 2019 at 02:32 UTC »
I had one of my professors show up to teach a night class, feeling unwell, not realizing he'd started having a heart attack earlier that night. He called a smoke break about 30 minutes in, talked for another 20 minutes, and then cancelled class. He went to the local small hospital, where he was told that he was having a heart attack and needed to take an ambulance to the cardiac ward in a hospital 2-3 hours away. He drove himself, so that he could smoke on the trip.
He lived about 6 years after that, still teaching, before dying of cancer. He'd been teaching for roughly 30 years, including a false sexual harassment claim from a student that came out in court, resulting in him getting tenure from the university. Oh, and he was stinking rich from having invested heavily in oil stocks before I was even born.
It was reassuring to me that there were still badass history teachers like him in my day and age.