Cornell Professor Throws a Fit Over a Yawn

Nov. 16, 2010

By Ryan O'Connell info

Ryan O’Connell is a 25 year-old writer based in the East Village, New York.

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Being a professor at a university like Cornell must be really hard. You get all those stressful summer vacations, which you can use to write your next novel. There’s also the looming threat of tenure, which ensures you that, short of dying or murdering a student, you will be guaranteed your job forever. Gosh, maybe that’s what this particular professor was thinking about when he lost his shit over a student yawning in his classroom. He thought about his life as a revered professor and just got very upset. TC mark

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  • http://www.adamhump.com adamhump

    seems like… the last lecture

  • http://twitter.com/iAMyourCOOLguy Kevin Biggers

    'a kilobyte!'

  • http://popserial.tumblr.com stephen

    hehe sweet…

  • kumquatparadise

    a flawless recovery Professor.

  • Jared

    You can tell he was mad embarrassed after this

  • jacob

    I feel like that has the power to become some sort of meme

  • Marti

    I played it again, listening 4 a yawn.

  • anonymous

    “Yawn outside!” What an ego. Get a grip.

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