Instructors, What’s the Oddest Thing a Student Has Done Out of Admiration for You?

Having an instructor to look up to can be vital to a student. Mentors can help students stay in college, provide them with research opportunities, and serve as lifelong role models. But what happens when students take reverence for teachers too far? By, say, getting a tattoo (or two) to show their love?

Yes, that happened. Slate published this query on Monday from a student wondering whether to cover up tattoos in the professor’s honor during advising meetings.

Instructors, has something like that happened to you? Have you had a student get a tattoo dedicated to you, or take admiration a bit too far in other strange ways? Or perhaps, as a student or former student, your reverence has taken on an offbeat form. Fill out the form below and let us know: