Part of you may have a nagging feeling that you’ve read COLLEGE IN A NUTSKULL: A CRASHED COURSE IN HIGHER EDUCATION before. Odds are you haven’t, but Professor Anders Henriksson’s collection parallels several of those joke chain e-mails your dad forwards to his entire address book.
NUTSKULL collects purportedly true gaffes and goofs from university students’ papers, essays, exams, tests and what-have-you, presented unedited for your amusement. Random examples:
• ”Anal stimulation can lead to obsessive propulsive disorder.”
• “An epic is like a docudrama, but more boring.”
• “James K. Polk invented the polka dot.”
• “Gender is something you have. Sex is something you do.”
• “Supply-side economics is where everybody has lots of supplies.”
Such a fine line exists that it’s sometimes difficult to tell whether the collegians are exhibiting real stupidity or just being smart-asses winging it when they don’t know the answer. Either way, the effect is the same as it would be grading these things: initially amusing, ultimately tiring. ‘Tis best to hit this book in toilet-sized doses to keep it in good graces.
Henriksson, who chairs the history department at Shepherd University, separates the errors by subject — 17.5 of them, including religious studies, art, Medieval history, anthropology and political science. The entire thing is made to look like a notebook, with spiral binding and doodles aplenty. An A for effort, C+ for execution. —Rod Lott
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I’ve read a lot of reviews of College in a Nutskull. Your review expresses views closest to my own: http://www.funny-english-errors.com/resources/articles/college-in-a-nutskull.html