Guruwani

Attending college after 2 years is not easy. Attending classes, and that too for 75 minutes each, was one of the things which I would have never thought possible. (Because, as one of our professors reminded us the other day, a normal person’s attention span is around the length of situation comedy on TV.) But then, our classes taught by professors who don’t rely on unintentional humor to make the classes interesting.

So, we have got Statistics professor (who incidentally looks and acts like Robin Williams with beard) who teaches us about ecology experiments in Duke Forest, craps, and little apple seedlings. Then there is Electrobiology professor who gives us “Tips to win Nobel Prize”. Not to forget the Medical Imaging professor who told us in first lecture, “For last 50 years, we have done all the easy work in imaging, and kept all the hard work for you guys”.

So, unless you had a night-out on previous night, you can enjoy lectures a lot even without sleeping.

Some of the best quotes I have heard in class:

• "We have something called library where there are a lot of books to read. The only problem with library is, you get lost in it. You look in some racks, find some old magazines, start reading them and before you know, you are out of time."

• "There is a wonderful thing called Google. I had thought of it, but some guys from Stanford stole my idea. But then, I should say that they did a pretty good job of it."

• "The target in medical imaging devices is the Patient. That's the most important thing to remember."

• "This (some statistics fact) fact is so amazing that it should be in Ripley's Believe It or Not."

• "Mean is represented by Mju. Mean, mju... there is alliteration here, get it? For some reason we don't alliterate variance... variance, sigma square..."

• “Let’s do the first simulation first, and the second one… second”

• “Biomass is biological abbreviation of mass.”

• “Have you got your cadaver?”

• “Today, we are talking about frying your patient.”

• “The little seedlings come out of the ground. Then winter comes, and some of them die. It’s really a tragic story.”

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Probability and Murphy's Laws

Sample Space:
Students from medical imaging class

Event:
Professor calling the random names picked from a glass, and asks the student questions. (He does not know your name if you haven't been called earlier.)

Observations:
1. The probability of getting called given that your mental state tends to "sleepy" is equal to 1.
2. The probability of getting called given that you are wide awake is equal to 0.

Conclusions:
Murphy's laws rule the earth!!!

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My dear Watson....

Class: Medical Imaging
Scene: The professor has displayed X-Ray of a human hand, and asks a student ([un]fortunately an engineer) what can she see in that hand.

She goes on to describe that it is human hand. Then she tells that she can see some lesions etc etc. We all have a very shrewd idea that the prof is waiting for her to say something very important. After her monologue goes on for about 10 sentences, the professor asks, "OK, and do you see anything else?" We all hold our breaths... She doesn't have anything more to say.

Prof: OK, you have covered almost everything except one small thing... the person has his thumb missing.

Love theatre has never known a louder laughter in any class.

Does this remind you of Sherlock Holmes' camping trip?

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