Monday, February 22, 2010

No Show Tunes In Class?...Check! No Pissing On The Desks?...Check!

The short version is that a student at NYU Stern School Of Business took umbrage when he walked into a lecture one hour late and was promptly asked to leave.  He decided to confront the Professor, Scott Galloway, by email.  Said Professor decided a response was in order. 

The student's identity hasn't been revealed, but it shouldn't be too hard to pick out the guy on campus wearing a paper bag over his head.

Read the full correspondence here. Really.  You want to read this.

I can't decide whether Professor Galloway is my new hero or if glad he wasn't teaching when and where I was a clueless student.

3 comments:

John the Scientist said...

Nathan, you have to remember this is a business student - someone who's finished college and is in a master's program - MBA in fact.

An MBA student should have known better than to write that email in the first place. If I were the dean at Stern, I'd throw his ass out for showing such spectacular lack of judgment.

This is why MBA programs tend to like their students to have 3 or more years of work experience before matriculating. Either this guy worked in Daddy's business before matriculating, or he's straight out of undergrad. Either way, he's not ready for prime time.

Nathan said...

John,

I assure you I wasn't taking the student's side. I thought the response was hysterical.

John the Scientist said...

I didn't think you were taking the student's side, but the crime is more egregious, and the response even more understandable, when you consider this guy's in grad school. I don't know WTF he learned as an undergrad, but good judgment was not on the curriculum, that's for sure.