Top Items About Academics
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Quotes | A students & B students | "The A students work for the B students. The C students run the business. And the D students dedicate the buildings."... | root | 170 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Toilets, Cheating and Ruses | Three economists and three mathematicians were going for a trip by train. Before the journey, the mathematicians bought... | Anonymous | 78 | |
| Anecdotes | Tolkien`s Dwarves | Though best known as a fantasy writer, J. R. R. Tolkien, a mild-mannered professor of ancient languages at Oxford, was... | Anonymous | 53 | |
| Anecdotes | Oxymoron? | Tom Selleck, who took after his father and studied business in college, left business school three credits short to sign... | Anonymous | 52 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Boredom, Lectures and Economics | An elderly economics professor is standing at the shallow end of the campus pool. A student is standing at the deep... | Anonymous | 43 | |
| Anecdotes | Boring Lecturer Contest | In 1971, professor David Coward won the `Most Boring Lecturer of the Year` contest at Leeds University with a... | Anonymous | 42 | |
| Anecdotes | Half Assed | Famed comedian Joey Adams was once awarded an honorary law degree by a Chinese university. Shortly thereafter, Bob... | Anonymous | 23 | |
| Jokes | Joke about Government, Mistakes and Dummies | A man walking along a road in the countryside comes across a shepherd and a huge flock of sheep... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | Jeffrey Sachs: Where Self-Confidence leads... | It was [economist Jeffrey Sachs]’s self-confidence that earned him an invitation to Latin America... During a seminar... | root | 21 | |
| Anecdotes | Bad Student | Texas A&M basketball coach Shelby Metcalf was once dismayed to learn that a star player had received four F`s and a D on... | Anonymous | 20 |
