[KarlInOhio]

someone should have warned me that several pre-requesite courses in German should be required in order to to understand her bi-lingual (often in the same sentence) lecture presentations.

That sounds like my argument for making all engineering students take Hindi and Chinese so they can understand their professors and TAs.

[Cogadh na Sith]

making all engineering students take Hindi and Chinese

We got so P*ssed off at our chemistry TA, Hong Ma, that we rioted in the classroom screaming at him: "What the F$%# are you saying!?" "What the F$#% are you saying?".

We caused so much trouble that he ran out of the room and got the prof. The prof ended up appologizing and getting us a new TA. It was pretty ugly.

[cpprfld]

That sounds like my argument for making all engineering students take Hindi and Chinese so they can understand their professors and TAs.

Business students too, I haven't had an American professor in a year and half.