Here’s to You, Professor Robinson

November 16, 2009     Posted in Reality

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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.


By Kendra

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?

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

  1. Celia says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 200912:20 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 20092:28 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 20092:57 pm 

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

  4. Beth says:
    Mon, 16th Nov 20093:14 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 20093:44 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 20094:03 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 20096:24 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 20105:05 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 :)

  9. badboyprofessor says:
    Sat, 20th Feb 20102:35 am 

    He might have noticed that you have the hots for him. He might enjoy it. In any case, enjoy the fantasy; he just might share it.

  10. E says:
    Wed, 3rd Mar 20104:56 pm 

    Last semester I was in love with my calculus instructor. He had this sexy french accent and this my-body-is-here-but-my-mind-isnt look that made me just want to hug him… and i know, i know, this post is from last year

  11. dede says:
    Sun, 28th Mar 20107:52 pm 

    I currently have a crush on my Spanish professor. We both flirt in the class and we make eye contact. He had invited me to his office for tutoring but I never went because I don't trust myself to be alone with him. I can't stop thinking about him. I know some other girls like him too. There is a girl that sits beside me, I mean she is so hot for him it sucks.. she text her friends everything going on in class,(how he calls her name to read..answer questions because she understands spanish, what he is wearing, if he was looking at her, how they made eye contact.blah blah blah. But I don't care. I don't care if he my current professor, I'll wait too see him in his office the last day of spring once the final grades are posted.

    I'm 34 and he is 40. I'm only taking 1 class with him however I will still be in the same School till I'm finished with the courses I'm taking but no-body will know..if he doesn't tell lol

    I want him and he has giving me all the signs that he wants me too but I can't because he's married.

    I really want to conjugate his verbs if he lets me!!!

  12. Ella says:
    Sun, 2nd May 20103:43 pm 

    I love this discussion. I've been in college for several years now and finally have had the pleasure of enjoying a professor as eye candy. He's my Calc II instructor. His geeky nerdy looks, incredibly intelligence and crooked smile have done me in. Made this semester a lot more fun than it otherwise would have been.

  13. lolitalightman says:
    Tue, 6th Jul 201012:47 pm 

    I loved this blog, simply because I can relate to it. I totally have an innocent crush my coach, who is older, way older than me, but I simply CANT help it. And I do the same thing as you do! I hide my obsession from him. ;)

    Also I love the way you write, and your voice, is simply amazing. Clearly you have one, and it's great.

  14. Nerely says:
    Wed, 12th Jan 201112:51 pm 

    i have the biggest crush on my criminal justice professor. he is a cop full time and teaches at my school part time. i try to take every class he teaches. he is married with kids, an he talks about them all the time in class. every girl i know takes his class just to watch him walk back and forth in the front of the room. he is funny, smart, and no-nonsense. i wish i coul check him out in his uniform! MMMMMM

  15. Andi says:
    Fri, 28th Jan 20113:34 am 

    Wow, I just saw this link, and had to put my two cents in…or 90! I'm a 30+ student & I had a Prof. that was around the same age as I two yrs. ago- he was tall, thin, had a go-tee, was a fantastic teacher and lecturer, but it was good he talked to quick bcuz that kept me f/looking at him all the time in front row. And, damn, I'm majoring in the same thing he's a Prof. in, soo…I see him in that dept. a lot- wow!
    When I read your "Here's to you…", you sounded just like me. I never thought I'd have the hots for a Prof OR a T.A., but since coming back to school…damn those intellectuals are a turn on! Even a few of the older ones. And, I'm not one to brown-nose or sleep around w/teachers or anyone else!
    This semester, I'm in a class taught by a PhD candidate. I always sit in the front row, bcuz I don't haveta see all the younger kids texting,etc., but this class is worth it! I'm pretty sure the T.A./grad. student teaching us is around my age or a bit younger. I must be a geek now, bcuz he's a geek, very quirky- he's got a cool/weird sense of humor, he has semi-long hair (tied back, there are a few strands that hang over his face!), has a beard, he's got glasses that he keeps tilted down a bit…and he's into medieval stuff, plus his class is fun and love his lectures. If someone would've described this TA to me a few yrs. ago, I woulda said, "no way!" But, there is just something about him and a couple others in the past- maybe it has to do with their authoritative position (figuratively & literally- LOL!) I actually met my ex-husband when he was a TA- not for me, but I needed a tutor, and randomly picked him. We became good friends, then best friends, then…! What was totally hot w/him was that he and I would role-play the Prof/student thing! I've never been with anyone who would think of doing that- and me being comfortable with it- and turned on. So….here's to all those HOT Profs & T.A.'s!!! ;) P

  16. Yowza says:
    Mon, 21st Mar 201112:52 am 

    Totally crushing on my hydrology prof. Like, wtf, he's married, 2 kids, wife, 45 (more than double my age), not traditionally hot. But he's also so damn tall, crazy mesmerizing fluid German accent, runs marathons, cycles, that cute "crooked" smile that everyone's been writing about. I think it's the combination of smile+PhDGermanEngineeringAttitude+fit+great sense of humor that's doing me in. I won't ever act on my thoughts but geeze I never thought I could crush on anyone more than a decade older than me – even George Clooney's not hot to me and I never cared about Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise.

  17. Bindi says:
    Fri, 8th Apr 20112:27 am 

    I'm totally in love with my Critical Thinking in the Social Sciences prof. I dont know what it is….his intelligence, his brown eyes, his smile…I could go on. He's not that much older than the rest of us, which is a MAJOR bonus. He and I do have some friends in common outside of school, which is all kinds of weird lol but he's a real sweetheart too ::sigh::

  18. Cassie says:
    Sun, 2nd Oct 201112:14 am 

    My Introduction to Macroeconomics professor from my freshman year of college. He's got the older Indiana Jones professorial look, wears a sharp suit to every lecture, and has a lovely sense of humor. He doesn't have the obvious sort of hotness–it's definitely his mind, humor and experience that make him so attractive. And maybe his adorable glasses. ;)

  19. Jon says:
    Wed, 25th Jan 20126:14 pm 

    I am dying to know who is the professor in the picture; please email his name. Email me at "junkmailbagz at yahoo dot com" (Its my spam collecting email box, sorry didn't want to solicit unwanted emails to my real address).

  20. Ama says:
    Sat, 4th Feb 20125:00 pm 

    This is an old post, but I have the biggest crush ever on one of my English professors. I took a class with him last semester, and I went into class thinking he was good looking, but the second he opened his mouth to lecture, he turned into the sexiest human being on the planet. He is adorable and quirky and hilarious and a complete genius and probably the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. And that whole intelligence thing… so damn hot. But really, I've never learned more than I did in that class. So I registered for another class with him this semester. This one is a small seminar whereas last semester was a large lecture. Raised my hand like a grand total of twice because I was petrified that I would say something wrong and embarrass myself. I never went to his office hours; I had a TA for that, who also graded all my work. He called attendance a few times, but I never thought he was able to connect my face with my name. Anyway, walked into the first day of our seminar and he held the door opened for me and called me by name. I almost passed out. Can't wait to see what this semester brings!

  21. xtlyhb says:
    Mon, 13th Feb 20128:43 pm 

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