A professor you feel an emotional and intellectual but completely platonic connection to. It’s THAT professor that will talk about all the subjects that you’ve always wanted to talk about, the one that can keep you interested for hours about that one topic. It’s the professor you’ve always dreamt to have a conversation with.
The disdain of a professor towards students who can grok the material without attending class. Professors afflicted with PMLS typically love to bask in the superiority implied by their Ph.D and generally dislike the prospect of a student possessing the ability to self learn material which they, at one time, struggled with dearly, without the aid of their divine guidance. Frequently, this manifests itself in the form of mark theft via borderline ethical methods such as questionable exams.
A: Dude, I was dishing PWNage all over this exam but I took a huge hit on this random question about some elephant Dr. Smith saw on his vacation to Africa.
B: OH! He told us in that impromptu weekend extra help tutorial that the weight of the elephant was 12,345lbs and winked at us.