Here’s to You, Professor Robinson

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What is it about professors?

Usually, I’m not the kind of girl to find much older men attractive. I guess I just like ‘em bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. I know it’s perfectly normal, and even expected, for women to date older men, but I don’t see the appeal of it. I’ll take Zac Efron over George Clooney any day of the week.

I just don’t get it when my friends talk about how hot George Clooney is. Isn’t he, like, 50? I mean, come on. His skin is so leathery I can almost smell it. And when Monica dated Richard on Friends, I cringed every time they kissed. Mostly because Tom Selleck looks like my Uncle Dennis, but still. Am I really supposed to find the bushy mustache sexy?

But then all that changed a couple months ago as I sat taking notes in class…

Maybe it’s his bifocals. Maybe it’s his silver hoop earring, or his penny loafers, or the fact that he bears a striking resemblance to Benjamin Bratt (with wrinkles and gray hair). But I’ve got a serious thing for my over-the-hill film professor. It doesn’t help that his name is Mark Robinson, which has inspired more than a handful of before-bed daydreams featuring myself murmuring the phrase, “Are you trying to seduce me, Professor Robinson?” as he slowly reveals his argyle knee socks.

The way he lectures is just so…passionate. I have honestly learned more in his class than I have in any other one this semester, and it’s not just because I show up to every class and hang on his every word.

The class meets every Tuesday night from 6:00 to 10:00. First we (passionately) discuss readings, and then we watch a film together. So in my deranged and perhaps delusional mind, Professor Robinson and I  have already been on several dates. What? … He turns off the lights, and he sits in the row RIGHT next to me! It counts. It does.

Shut up.

I’m not the type to flirt with professors (young or old) simply because I’m paranoid they will assume I’m trying to suck up for a good grade, so I just hide my love away while other girls talk to him. Although on the last exam, I dotted the ‘i’ in my last name with a heart. Hopefully he’ll get the hint and ask me out. Then we’ll spend an evening caught up in intellectual conversation and laughing about the younger, less civilized college boys in my class as I run my hands through his thinning gray hair.

Until then, though, I’ll be sitting front row at the showing of my imagination’s production of The Undergraduate, starring myself and the Silver Fox. I can’t help it; I’ve fallen head over the hill for this guy.

I know you guys have sexy professors. Are any of you as hopelessly in love as I am?

9 Comments on "Here’s to You, Professor Robinson"

  1. Celia says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 20095:20 pm 

    I hear you! My wind ensemble conductor is, for some reason, incredibly attractive to me when he gets really into conducting. Maybe it’s the music major thing, but give him a baton and he’s the sexiest thing on earth. Without one, he’s this pleasant little Mormon guy.

  2. Su says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 20097:28 pm 

    i was totally crushing on my english prof and went to every single class. I was always secretly hoping he would take pity on me horizontally because I came in even when I clearly partied too hard the night before. But then I guess his wife (who I didn’t know about. never wore a ring.) came in before class and after class. It was like she knew something was up with the girls. So I backed off but still crushed like crazy. Then a horrible habit was realized. He did the ‘mmkay?’ thing that Mr. Mackey from South Park does. It ruined all my daydreams because the fantasies would end up with him asking, “I need you to stay after class,……. mmmkay?” So needless to say I lost any interest that I still had for him…

  3. Alison says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 20097:57 pm 

    LOL that’s a picture of my A&P prof. That’s hilarious!

  4. Beth says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 20098:14 pm 

    Oh my goodness, I know exactly what you mean. I have the biggest crush on my 39-year-old-married-with-kids chemistry prof. Of course I would NEVER EVER EVER make any kind of move on him whatsoever, but that ain’t stoppin’ my imagination! ;) He’s soooo adorable, he has this sexy british accent and perfect tan smooth skin and a delicious crooked smile and…boy, I can certainly say that I’ve never missed a chemistry class!

  5. Daisy says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 20098:44 pm 

    Silver foxes are probably the reason why my G.P.A. is so good. Kidding (kind of), there are several good looking prof’s at my school. One in particular- he’s younger-sih, still a good 14 years older than me, but still not over the hill.I would never make a on him in reality, but that doesn’t keep me from thinking about it every class period. Yep, in my daydreams, I think he is going to whisk me off to Paris for a tres amazing weekend. Yea. Right.

  6. B says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 20099:03 pm 

    I can definitely relate. My history professor is quite non traditionally handsome. I’m in the process of taking every class he teaches, sad, but true.

  7. C says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 200911:24 pm 

    I have THE biggest crush on my English professor. No joke he’s rated by all the students as really handsome ‘eye candy.’ All semester I’ve tried to get rid of this crush but it does’t help he’s a genius and one of the most interesting professor ever. Unfortunately, my intelligent remarks, short skirts, and batting eyelashes haven’t caught his attention-I’m pretty sure he’s gay!

  8. Layla says:
    Wed, 27th Jan 201010:05 pm 

    I had (have) the biggest crush on my lit professor from last quarter. He isn’t typically good-looking, and he is married, but his class itself was so interesting and fun. He has the best sense of humor and he always dresses really, really well. Also, he is BRITISH and has an accent, so everything he says sounds so completely intelligent and so hot!
    Needless to say, I never missed a class and even though I really don’t need it, I’m taking his 100-level class next quarter just for the heck of it :)

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