April 03, 2007

Calvin (guy in my genetics class): *comes in late*
Len Millis: You got one of these handouts?
Calvin: Nope.
Len Millis: I don’t think you should have one. *rips paper in half and hands Calvin the bottom half*
Class: *laughs*
Len Millis: That’s what you get for being late. *hands Calvin a full page*

Paul O’Connor: If you reverse how they’re drawed… *makes face* DRAWN…

Paul O’Connor: A way to remember this is to say it with a really bad German accent… they’re on ZEE same side.
[about naming alkenes as "E isomer" or "Z isomer"]

Paul O’Connor: *walks by my group working on a handout, looks at my page, and LAUGHS*
Shannon: THAT’S NOT VERY REASSURING! You come look at my page and LAUGH.
Paul O’Connor: Well, I’m here to help.

April 02, 2007

*someone’s cell phone is dying and it beeps during a silent part of class*
Paul O’Connor: Yes, R2?

March 27, 2007

Paul O’Connor: It’s an electrophile. “Phile”, as in loving. Like… I can only think of dirty examples.

March 05, 2007

Paul O’Connor: Radioactive… so don’t put it on your Wheaties.

February 26, 2007

Paul O’Connor: *to himself* That is a particularly ugly orbital. Oh well.

Paul O’Connor: *about his diagram* We have the carbon connected to the carbon… connected to the knee bone *dances*

February 19, 2007

Paul O’Connor: Death to balloons! *pops balloon*
Scott Denham: *walks by classroom as Paul pops balloon* GOOD GOD!

Paul O’Connor: Super tetrahedron man!

January 30, 2007

Paul O’Connor: Ionic bonding is like the Rodney Dangerfield of bonding. It doesn’t get as much respect as it deserves.

January 15, 2007

Paul O’Connor: That’s a little introduction to radiation… it’s a wave, it hangs around, it does stuff… makes rainbows…