The lecturers you'll meet in third year

We still see a lot of the old characters (the mumbler, the one with the inexplicable accent that's particularly confusing when they're teaching you signalling pathways and you've no idea whether they're introducing you to a new molecule you've never heard of or massively fudging the word 'therefore'), but we also have a few new faces. Here are a selection:

The one who will get to the end of their lecture time and realise they're overrunning. They won't slow down or cut their lecture for next year, just keep going. They frequently ask, 'I might run over, is that ok?', and no one will ever dare refuse.

The one whose references are a twelve page list of everything that's ever been written on their subject, with no indication of what is a good idea to read, and what will actually lower out IQ by a few points

The one who references only himself, even if his papers are all twenty years old and are biographies of someone everyone now thinks was wrong about everything.

The arch-enemies, Professor This-subject-is-really-complex-and-interesting-but-here's-a-picture-of-a-tree, and Doctor This-sucject-is-simple-but-here's-an-in-depth-review-of-one-specific-and-confusing-paper.

How I miss Professor Mumbles.

Geraldine