Academy Instructor Gifts

"If a stock falls in the market, and it had no investors, does it really lose its value?"

'Okay, ladies! We're not just going to burn those calories, we're going to drown them!'

Pool attached to child's bed.

"Oh, stop it. You are not at all obtuse." Complimentary angles make the other angles feel good about themselves.

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

Swimming Prankster

"He's an abstract artist."

“Today we are going to be learning percentages.”

Kirsten Johnson

Bankside

"Why are all of your answers so mechanical?"

Two love poems in swimming pool. Shallow end and deep end.

"Some day you'll look back at this and remember me as the person who taught you to fear water."

Professor McWit, Didn't Publish, So Perished.

'It's up to you, either synch or swim.'

I told you not to swim out to far

"I can't WAIT to see it."

Polo player on an inflatable horse.

'There's one app we can't give you ... aptitude.'

'Professor Higgenbottom will have the number π and I'll have the number √-i.'

"The narrative seems contrived."

"This is a teaching hospital."

Professor Isaac goes off on another tangent.

'After being here for more than forty years - as undergraduate, graduate student instructor, professor - what saddens me most is that this was not the college of my choice.'

'Forget everything I told you about flying.'

'It's for cutting and pasting.'

People with tilted heads looking at crooked art gallery painting

'Dad demonstrates for an hour and then we go home - what happens in your swimming lessons?'

"And when the little hand gets to the nine, it means... ah, just check your cell phones."

"Be careful, dear. People tend to lose control when faced with the newfound freedom of their first year of tenure."