derekpoindexter-williamnurse:

adambirkholtster:

derekpoindexter-williamnurse:

nicepasses:

nicepasses:

ransom gets a ph.d in biology and does teaching and research. in other words, he becomes a brofessor. 

in all seriousness though, ransom being prof sounds so…nice. 

• Dr. O. 
• chili peppers on ratemyprofessor
• often opens lecture with a story from college
• makes “…and I had a nickname!” and everyone guessing that nickname a running joke 
• when he draws molecular structures on the chalkboard, he draws the O in oxygen to look like him 
• super accommodating to student athletes and students with mental illnesses
• like he’s also HOT and other profs are like ~*i know i’m no justin oluransi*~ as a joke 
• in a lecture about concussions he puts a press picture of jack zimmermann in hockey gear on one slide and then in the next slide, puts that picture of jack and him on canada day and captions it “I worry about him everyday” and everyone loses their shit  
• cancels a lecture after the hockey team makes the playoffs 

Okay now that I stopped my original freak out over how perfect this is…

• You know he’s one of those professors that’s so accommodating to his students’ learning styles and disabilities.
• He’s got like six different versions of his tests, ranging from the standard written exam to an oral exam. He’ll even accept a video or something, where the student explains what they know.
• His policy is basically “show me that you understand the material and you’ll pass.”
• He also understands the importance of having a personal life in addition to the studious life.
• He’s totally the professor from that “weekend homework” post where students have to like switch religions for a day, master karate, or call their mother/father.
• He has all his students write a “college bucket list” at the beginning of the semester and will give extra credit if you cross something (legal) off it and write a short paper about the experience. You have to tie it into biology, though.
• Ie. “I did this thing and here’s how the chemicals in my brain reacted/here’s how my vitals changed.”
• He teaches a low-level biology class that’s geared towards non-science majors. Everyone wants to take it to fill their science requirement.
• The wait list is basically half the student body population.
• It’s mostly athletes who get into the class, since they get to register for classes earlier than everyone else.
• The list to be one of his TA’s is just as long as the wait lists for all his classes. He tries to take as many as possible, but the University has a limit that he has to adhere to.
• He handles dissection better than any other professor. He basically runs two subsets of it: the “doers” and the “watchers.”
• The “doers” are all the kids who want to dissect. He’ll schedule extra lab time and let them dissect whatever they want (within reason) during that time.
• The “watchers” are the kids who don’t want to physically dissect anything. They have to have the experience, but he’ll do the dissections for them so they don’t have to.
• He’s pretty open about his personal life and background, especially his status as a former DI athlete. He constantly uses his experiences to explain the stuff in lectures.
• Every freshman gets heartbroken a little when they find out he’s married. Every freshman girl gets more heartbroken when they find out he’s married to a man. It doesn’t change everyone’s heart eyes, though. Chili peppers galore.
• He hosts study sessions in his home on Sundays for his students. He provides snacks and has an open door all day for whoever needs help.
• One time, Jack is in town for a game and stops in to say hi. His students collectively lose their shit.
• He’s won Professor of the Year honors four years in a row.

hope it’s okay that i’m adding to this:

• the first time he shows up in glasses (bc i like to imagine he wears them from time to time) everyone freaks tf out

• he still plays hockey every now and then ((but doesn’t have as much time as he used to)) so most of his students have seen him in his athletic bro clothes AND his nice suits

• jack gave him his bobblehead giveaway as a joke but what he doesn’t know is that it’s actually sitting on ransom’s desk and he talks to it from time to time

• his students are used to it

• an internal collective sigh comes from all his students whenever he turns around to write on the whiteboard bc Hockey Butt™

• gives his students pie after they finish his exam (s/o to bitty)

• also keeps a pic of him and the team on his desk to remind him of the good ol’ college days

• likes to practice the heavier lectures a day before he gives them after hours

• holster likes to keep him company when he does this and sits in the seats higher up to get a better feel for the lesson

• the Cool Professor™

• uses every other pen colour except red when marking assignments and tests bc he knows how bad it could feel when seeing red ink all over your paper

• his very first day teaching his students thought he would be tough but they soon learn that he’s just like them just more mature

• the background of his laptop is a picture of him and holster that jack took of them a few years back and everyone ‘aw’s when they see it when he connects his laptop to the projector

• likes to walk around the lecture hall, not just stay down in the front and pace ((he’ll even sit on the stairs))

bonus:

• shitty forgot that the schedules change in the second semester and decides to skype/facetime ransom while he’s in the middle of a lecture

• and ransom HAS to pick up the call or else shitty will just keep calling

• “shitty this better be important i’m in the middle of a lecture” and shitty is just. SCREAMING. about Douchey McAsshole today in the courtroom

• and his laptop is still connected to the projector so his students get an eyeful of the one and only shitty knight

• shitty is also now a big hotshot lawyer at this point so mostly everyone and their dog know his name

• ransom just sits down at his desk and let’s shitty rant to him about Douchey McAsshole and in one particular part of the rant/re-telling, his students laugh

• that’s when shitty realizes he probably interrupted ransom’s lesson and apologizes

• ransom eventually just turns the laptop around so it’s facing his students and shitty can see them

• they spend the rest of the lecture time asking shitty questions

• both ransom and shitty give good life advice to the class

• when they’re done with shitty, the first question to come out of their mouth (after getting over their initial shock and amazement) is: “dr. o why did you call [redacted) knight ‘shitty’?”

• remembered as The Great Shitty Lecture of 2kwhatever

Okay but honestly the thing with the red pen reminds me of my one teacher in high school who always used all these different colored pens on our journal assignments. And he wouldn’t write much but he would draw pictures or scribbles. He only used red if it was obvious you put absolutely no effort into the assignment. Everyone thought there was this secret code for what color he used and the scribbles he drew. Like yellow meant your argument was balanced and blue meant you were being too passive. A bunch of circles meant you were talking in circles and needed to refine your point.

Then at the end of the year he told us all that the colors didn’t mean anything, he just didn’t like using red to grade. And the scribbles didn’t necessarily mean anything either, he would just make them in places he wanted you to take a second look at and let you decide if you want to revise it on your own. Or if he thought your journal was good on it’s own he would draw a picture based on your topic just so he knew that he’d looked at it already.

This was kinda like a philosophy class and obviously we’re talking about Ransom the biology professor, but I feel like it’s something he would adopt and make his own.