College Goers Share Sassy Comebacks Exchanged Between Professors and Students

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jul 21, 2023 1:30 PM EDT

Our college years can be some of our messiest ones. That earliest stage of adulthood is never plain sailing whatever you choose do with it, and the stresses and freedoms of formal education only make it more difficult. 

This is a fancy way of saying that most college students have skipped a class from time to time, or been late to one. Plenty of professors barely even notice this, but others can get annoyed. 

Getting scolded for tardiness can be embarrassing — unless we have the right retort. This was the case for an acquaintance of one Twitter user, who recalled a comeback she used for one of their professors who took issue with her turning up late to class. 

This amusing story prompted others to share times they had witnessed students or professors using sass against one another. One thing's for sure, sometimes the classroom is a surprisingly good place for witty banter.

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  • 01
    Font - 11 Catieosaurus @CatieOsaurus Follow Thinking about that time in college when a girl walked in to class late holding a coffee, and the prof was like "nice of you to join us, perhaps you could get coffee earlier next time" and she looked him in the eye and said "oh the coffee didn't make me late I just don't care".
    via CatieOsaurus
  • 02
    Font - Blargeaux @blargeauxite.1d Replying to @CatieOsaurus The prof called on a guy in my math class to answer a question. The guy said, "My guess is as good as yours." The prof replied "No my guess would be much better than yours." After 40 years I still laugh about that.
    via blargeauxite
  • 03
    Font - Jeffrey V Butler → @JeffreyVButler Follow Replying to @CatieOsaurus I had a prof at usc who said to one of our football players: "I'm glad you could make it to class today, because you certainly weren't there in the fourth quarter yesterday."
    via JeffreyVButler
  • 04
    Font - Jenn Smith @Baseball_Jenn 1d Replying to @CatieOsaurus I told a class if they were late they either had to get a late slip or bring me a coffee or Skittles. A couple of Mondays later, a student walked in late, stopped in front of me to open his backpack, slammed down 5 large packs of Skittles and said "I intend to be late all week."
    via Baseball_Jenn
  • 05
    Font - Paul L @MrItty. 1d Replying to @CatieOsaurus Someone walked into my Art of the Film course (I went to a tech-focused university, this course could not have mattered less) late, the prof had the gaul to ask if he had a "hall pass". The kid stopped dead in his tracks and told him "no, sorry, I left it in High School."
    via MrItty
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    Font - Mark Sanderlin @marksanderlin. 1d Replying to @CatieOsaurus I had a friend who just didn't show up to class for a month or so. The day she walked in about half an hour into class, the very old, very austere tweed-jacket professor stopped, set his chalk down, took and beat and said "...well shit."
    via marksanderlin
  • 07
    Font - James Pettifer @pettifer_james. 1d Replying to @CatieOsaurus Once lord of people were talking and the IT lecturer said "If you aren't learning anything feel free to leave" One of my very technical friends got up and left to the shock of the students The lecturer just responded. “I know who that is. That's fine"
    via pettifer_james
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    Font - x - Nashville Assass... @batmaneatsbabie Follow Replying to @CatieOsaurus A prof I had had twice and hated (but it was the only way to get my minor) once saw me, 3 mins before class started, leaning back & closing my eyes. He said sleep on your own time & I replied w/o opening my eyes "sure, I'll tell grandma not to die on me again for the next class"
    via batmaneatsbabie
  • 09
    Font - Shutts @Shuttsapalooza. 1d Lad at our school walked into French late after lunch. Strolled over to his seat like nothing. Teacher goes "Get out & enter this class appropriately for being late". So he walks out, back in, does exactly the same, but at the end looks at his watch and goes "Oh dear, I'm late."
    via Shuttsapalooza
  • 10
    Font - AMOTM @of_true_minds 1d vivid flashback to likeable bad boy in school who wandered into class, embarrassingly late, absolutely Zero attempt to hide it, was yelled at, and just spread his hands w/ a nonchallant shrug and went: 'badda-bing, badda-boom.'
    via of_true_minds
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    Organism - vash @moon chiIde 1d this one time I was late to a class my senior year and I was trying to get in sneakily through the door at the back, but the prof saw me and just went "oh hey, nice shirt!" and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry
    via moon_chiIde
  • 12
    Font - Stephen Okey @StephenOkey. 16h I regularly think of the ambitious and nervous MA student, in a course on Heidegger with Jean-Luc Marion, who spoke at very high speed throughout her presentation. At the end, his only comment to her was "did you beat your personal best time?"
    via StephenOkey

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