One freshman, whose name has been withheld to avoid tarnishing his next four years, pulled a big oops by sending his suck-up email to an entire ECO 100 class, not just his professor:

From: *******************************
To: eco100_f2007@princeton.edu
Subject: [eco100_f2007] OPRAH

Dearest Prof Reinhardt,

I'm your fan from ECO 100! I heard you're going on OPRAH some time soon~ if you're not too busy, perhaps you can inform me of the time it's gonna be on air so that I can catch the show? Also, can I know if I can invite you for a meal, *like*, a date, in the hope that you would be glad to advise me on major stuffs? Feel free to reject me though.. understand you're busy prof!

Thanks for your time~ and err, I hope you haven't been offended by the way I've written my email. I thought I need to devise a cool way to talk to cool professors.

Regards,
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We could not make this shit up.