Professor Profiles (Part II)
Unshaven cheeks, bearded chin, pursed lips, teeth within, salt and pepper hair, not so fair, eyes are black, no six-pack, student's nightmare, is that you? Yes, yes, yes! Presenting to you, no.2 victim of Professor Profiles, Victor Lazaro!
With his razor-sharp wit that he uses very effectively on us from time to time, he can easily turn into your worst nightmare if you rub him the wrong way, but for the most part, Victor sir is one of the best lecturers around.
(Yes, I know I said it for Hari sir some time back as well, and will probably say it for the others too, but what can I say, I've been paid well. I mean, my teachers are awesome.)
It's almost impossible to sleep in his classes, not only because of his loud, attention-commanding voice, but also because his lectures are so interesting and interactive, as opposed to the suicide-inducing boredom that we are faced with in a lot of other classes.
We've had him two semesters in a row now, for Broadcast Journalism in the first semester, and now for Theatre. In all these months, we have made several observations about him. To begin with, he is almost incapable of conducting a class without his stock dialogues, which include "Get what I'm saying?" which he repeats about 5 times per class on an average and "Zip it!" which he spits out occasionally, whenever noise levels in the class go beyond tolerable levels. His sarcasm is lethal and if he weren't teaching us the nitty-gritties of Broadcast Journalism or giving life to the actors in us, he should probably have been giving certificate courses on how to use humour as an effective weapon.
Even with the evident sadistic pleasure he takes in dishing out assignment after assignment at us and contributing significantly to our misery levels, however, he maintains a very friendly rapport with us and is often kind enough to grace our modest tables and
