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Whoppers teachers tell us

Just Your Average 68-Year-Old College Freshman.


College professors know things about space aliens.

Lecturers have told us the K–Pg Extinction Event was the work of space aliens, that members of Roanoke’s lost colony were abducted by swamp pods and that higher mathematics are implanted through human nasal passages by Jovians (remember that sinus flare-up?). They talk about the Kardashians, Justin Bieber and the Loch Ness monster all the time.

After all these years, I now realize higher education isn’t about getting a job at all. Money’s nice, sure, but what’s more important is that we understand the world we live in.

Pat Shiplett

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