News 8 years ago

Harvard professor starts viral campaign to bring Conan O’Brien to Stats class

It’s called #stat104conan

Harvard professor Michael Parzen is urging his students to tweet with the hashtag #stat104conan in an attempt to lure Conan O’Brien ’85, to visit his Statistics class.

In an email sent to his students for Statistics 104: Introduction to Quantitative Methods for Economics, Professor Parzen appealed to bring “local Brookline, MA celebrity Conan O’Brien” to his class next Friday.

The famed late night host and former president of The Harvard Lampoon will visit Harvard next week to meet with Drew Faust, or as Professor Parzen puts it, to “probably talk about global warming, or divesting the endowment from fossil fuels.”

This is email he sent out:

#stat104conan

Whatever his reason for visiting Harvard is we can all agree: what does Conan have to do with Statistics?

@ConanOBrien can you visit the Stat 104 class when you come to Harvard next week? #stat104conan

— stat104harvard (@stat104zen) February 3, 2016

@ConanOBrien Do you really have anything better to do? #stat104conan https://t.co/2oIbfXYKER

— Jack (@jackstockless) February 3, 2016

.@stat104zen, who is @ConanOBrien? I've honestly never heard of him before. What branch of statistics does he specialize in? #Stat104Conan

— Awful Mark (@AwfulMark) February 3, 2016

@ConanOBrien, Stat 104 may sound lame at first glance, but Prof. Parzen conjures up the laughs. I demand a battle of the wits. #stat104conan

— Ashiley Lee (ღ˘⌣˘ღ) (@ashiley_lee) February 3, 2016

@ConanOBrien I loved your driver ed video with @KevinHart4real but I'd love to see you in class more. #stat104conan

— Piotr Linek (@PiotrLinek) February 3, 2016

Finally my own plea to Mr. O’Brien:

I don't even take Stat104 but if @ConanOBrien shows up I promise to be his personal Masturbating Bear 😉 #stat104conan #bringjschlanskytoo

— Alexander Hem (@collegesagas) February 3, 2016

So go out and tweet #stat104 and make the kids in that class happy.

@collegesagas

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