Friday Fun: Professor Tweets Complaining about Student Tweets Reaches All-Time High

And perhaps student tweets complaining about professor tweets also reaches an all-time high!

Anyways, here it is, 11am on a holiday Friday morning and all I really want to do is relax and read a book. But what do I have to do? Write a Friday Fun post! What a drag.

So, if I want to get the dreary chore of trying to be funny over with as quickly as possible, where do I turn? The Cronk News of course!

Professor Tweets Complaining about Student Tweets Reaches All-Time High

Twitter has become a popular way for faculty and staff to complain about the students with immediate gratification by "Tweeting" their frustrations.

One Tweet from a user called "@ProfHarmU" stated, "The little bombastic simpletons could not form a simple sentence if it slapped them in the face!" Another said, "If they can't identify the food maybe we should start feeding them what they think it looks like!"

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Holly Swinson, a sophomore at Harmony University, said, "I don't Tweet anymore because all my crazy professors are doing it and it's kinda creepy."

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The administration has decided to call an emergency council to convene due to the behavior around campus concerning cell phones; however, meetings are usually cut short due to cell phone usage.

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