But seriously: For 15 years, a comedian has been showing how school can be a joke.
By Susan Svrluga Susan Svrluga Reporter covering higher education for the Grade Point blog Email Bio Follow March 8 at 7:00 AM BALTIMORE — Jesse Huang took a deep breath, holding his hands over his eyes. Then, too nervous to sit still, he jumped up and danced through a row of auditorium seats.
“This is scary,” said Charlie Linton, a senior. The very real possibility of absolute failure in the show swiftly forged a closeness in the class as they practiced. “We’re a bunch of Hopkins nerds who want to do well in this show,” he said. The students have little in common except the intellect and work ethic that got them into Hopkins. Most say their friends would not describe them as funny.They had three weeks to prepare. Four minutes to be funny.
Now, he’s on TV and writes books and a regular humor column for the journal Science. He does stand-up — when he’s not at work, most recently helping develop a vaccine for malaria. “I think you’ve got about 75 percent of two different jokes, and you need to finish them,” Ruben told an economics major.
The last student reluctantly crept to the front of the room, put his black Moleskine notebook on the table, pulled the mic off the stand. It was Huang, a freshman biophysics major from Chicago.On Friday night — THE Friday night — as his class was melting down in the final minutes before the show, Ruben reminded them to hold the mic close, to look at the audience, to stay near the front.
Bernstein, who found the class so valuable as a freshman that he returned this year as a teaching assistant, took on fraternity parties at Hopkins, where people are even competitive about beer pong. He pretended to quickly scrawl, on the blackboard behind him, a formula for the optimal parabolic trajectory of the ball.
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