Silliest answer someone has said in class?

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Today was my first day of micro. Our instructor asked the class "what is the name of the bacteria that is the number one cause of UTI's?"

A student answered Ebola.

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What the **** does my husband each? English Lit and occasionally a Comp course, and he has also taught French in a pinch.

I just knew it was gonna be an English teacher.

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A&P- student asks instructor if zombies had the same circulatory system as humans.

I hope he was joking but he said it with such seriousness I honestly am not sure lol

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Laughing @ my own stupidity :facepalm: ... Micro case study was of ways to DNA fingerprint someone from saliva off a stamp. My brilliant comment was of course, "how could we get fingerprints from saliva?" :confused: Hahahahahaaaaaaa!!

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Specializes in hospice.

Students in their late teens and early 20s reading this are probably wondering why there would be saliva on a stamp.... ;)

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In my chem class, the professor asked someone to write the chemical formula for carbonate. Of course everyone was expecting to see CO32-. Nope, they wrote C8. Apparently they heard carbon eight instead of carbonate. No one was prepared for that.

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Laughing @ my own stupidity :facepalm: ... Micro case study was of ways to DNA fingerprint someone from saliva off a stamp. My brilliant comment was of course, "how could we get fingerprints from saliva?" :confused: Hahahahahaaaaaaa!!

Now THAT deserves a gold sticker! :D

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Students in their late teens and early 20s reading this are probably wondering why there would be saliva on a stamp.... ;)

And now you're bringing back a Stupid Me Moment Memory: licking the back of a peel-off stamp. Sigh.

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It was in Foundations during a discussion re: abuse, ethics, and mandated reporting. This was an IVN classroom with four other sites than mine on. The instructor emphasized the need to follow up on any suspected abuse. She then asked, "Can anyone think of situations that might need a follow up?"

One classmate from another site says, "Drugs".

The instructor asks, "Okay, how does drug use relate to abuse potential?"

The classmate, in all seriousness, says:

"No, I mean drug abuse. We have to report all abuse, and using illegal drugs is drug abuse, so we have to call the authorities if we find drugs on them, right?"

Never have I seen a teacher facepalm so hard in sight of the class. Then followed 10 minutes of impatiently explaining to that student why having drugs is not an automatic referral to abuse services, and how to not take things literally. I don't think the student was entirely convinced, either.

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Specializes in Geriatric.

Oh it got better today. Same kid, same class. He offered up the information that a chicken with both sex organs are called transvestites. How we went back to A&P in a micro setting while talking about parasites I will never know but I think it may be beneficial for him to re-take A&P.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

This one is PG-13 rated, so be prepared...

Instructor: "Can someone give an example of how the skin can react to changes in temperature?" (expecting answers of sweating, goose bumps, etc.).

Student: "When a guy jumps into a cold pool the skin on his scrotum shrinks around his testicles." (I must applaud his use of the scientific words for the mentioned male body parts.)

You could tell the instructor was having a tough time keeping a straight face.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Oh it got better today. Same kid, same class. He offered up the information that a chicken with both sex organs are called transvestites. How we went back to A&P in a micro setting while talking about parasites I will never know but I think it may be beneficial for him to re-take A&P.

I suspect your classmate is either dense, or is being silly for the attention. :blink:

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

I have a silly instructor one: one of my instructors in my PN program many moons ago stated to a group during our "assessment" (ahem data collection per the BON guidelines ;) )

class that one can obtain a temperature using the lady partsl folds. :blink:

Gratefully, the head of the program abruptly corrected this notion; knowing fully that when our test can up, that was one of the options on the exam, although the incorrect answer. :no:

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