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*KB*
Your stories about idiot classmates always remind me of stories i want to tell, but i don't want to steal your thunder. So I will just tell you that last night, my professor, a PhD, also continuously said "Pacific" instead of "specific".
Also, our prof sent us an email fwd the other day that had an attachment about how Johns Hopkins had discovered that chemo doesn't work, so now you should just "think positively" to ward off cancer. As soon as i read it, i was like WTF and looked it up on Snopes - obv. it was a hoax. So i replied all and told the class it was fake.
In class, the teacher was like "WOW Justdandy, that's so great that you found this out, please tell us how you knew!" and the rest of the students were looking at me as if I was some kind if genius. I was like, A) the subject was FWD!!!!! MUST READ!!!!!!! 
It was a pdf attachment with no logo, no letterhead, NO credibility C) if the best medical school in the country had found out chemo didn't work, i would have heard about it in the NEWS, not an email forward and D) HAPPINESS DOES NOT CURE CANCER. I can't believe we devoted class time to discussing this.
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Sorry to butt in, but I completely feel your pain. My professors are good, but they have super low expectations for their students. I guess it's because most of the people in my grad classes are complete idiots, which scares me because they're all teachers.
One day a few weeks ago, one of my professors put up a slide showing a drawing made by a Special Ed. consultant in favor of appropriate inclusion of students with disabilities in regular ed. classrooms. My professor explained that one of this guy's catchphrases was "No more of the same!" as in, "Don't use inclusive strategies that haven't worked in the past." The slide showed a drawing that said "No More of The Same" at the top with the letters "MOTS" with a big red circle with a slash through it (indicating no more of the same). Pretty simple, in my opinion. Maybe she wasn't paying attention, but literally 3 slides and about 5 minutes later into a different topic, one woman raised her hand and said, "Oh, I get it - he means 'no more of the same!'" and my professor actually praised her and said "Yup, that's right!" I looked around to see if anyone else was as appalled as me, but everyone was either busy doing other work or didn't care.
It still surprises me when I realize that some Master's candidates are so dumb.