Academy Instructor Gifts

The final section of the U.S. Naval Academy exam.

"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!'

"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!'

Pool attached to child's bed.

"He's an abstract artist."

Kirsten Johnson

“Today we are going to be learning percentages.”

Swimming Prankster

'Leadership training.'

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

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

Bankside

Dept. of Engineering. It's a well-written paper, but a "gyroscope" is not a device for looking at tiny Greek sandwiches.

"Why are all of your answers so mechanical?"

Professor McWit, Didn't Publish, So Perished.

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

"I can't WAIT to see it."

I told you not to swim out to far

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

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

2 + 2 = 4. 2 x 2 = 4. Oh, I get it! It's a Zen thing!

Polo player on an inflatable horse.

University. I never really understood geometry until the instructor brought up pizzas.

"The narrative seems contrived."

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.'

"This is a teaching hospital."

Psychology Dept. Faculty Evaluations Today. I can't tell if it's my id or my ego, but I'm really craving a promotion.

'Forget everything I told you about flying.'

People with tilted heads looking at crooked art gallery painting

'It's for cutting and pasting.'

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

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