Smiling Like Jesus

For this week's speeches, I gave students a hypothetical situation: "If the professor changes careers in ten years, what should he do? Why?" As you would expect, I heard a number of answers for this one. Among the suggestions include becoming a kindergarten owner, professional nanny, lawyer, speech pathologist, entertainer, magician, laughter therapist, free-lance translator and beach barista. Some of the (frequently amusing) reasons students made their choices include the following:

"Prof. Tim makes me laugh ten times a class."
"Prof. Tim doesn't ever lose his temper."
"Prof. Tim is too old to be a bodyguard, so I think he should be an actor."
"He smiles like Jesus."
"Prof. Tim looks like one of the guys on Prison Break."
"He has a razor-sharp mind."