Splash Biography



PETER OLSEN, ESP Teacher




Major: math

College/Employer: BC

Year of Graduation: 2014

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Past Classes

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X157: Understanding Your Foreign Professor in Splash Spring 2011 (Mar. 27, 2011)
What is the secret to collegiate excellence? Many will cite time management, hard work, sleep, etc. But these all pale in comparison with the most fundamental and essential skill: understanding your professor. At the university level, many pretentious academics adopt an exotic, incomprehensible accent in an attempt to bolster their value and reputation. This is great for History Channel documentaries, but a plague for college students across the nation. Through a careful examination of audio samples and guest speakers (maybe) students will develop a cursory understanding of accents including "the Irish literature professor," "the British history professor," and even the fabled "Chinese statistics teacher" (these characters are entirely fictional, any resemblance to actual BC professors is purely coincidental).