<p>-When eating at a restaurant two students are discussing the physics of a glass candle holder</p>
<p>-When in the library you find a student reading a rare middle Dutch text and find out his major is sociology and that his professor suggested that he read an important early reference in its original language, so the student learns the language to read the text</p>
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<li>Linguistics students studying Norwegian so they can read their text book for a course in an Icelandic language, the definitive text only available in Norwegian</li>
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<p>-Students filling a room to hear a 14 hour Homer marathon reading by classics faculty</p>
<p>-A faculty member after apologizing for assigning so much work over the weekend and promising never to do it again asks for a show of hands of those who where actually able to get through it all, once the hands are raised, he says, “The rest of you may leave, I don’t teach unprepared students…”</p>
<p>None made-up</p>