He makes a hilarious splat. Kornbluth paces in front of a blackboard as he recounts his college trials. Even in retrospect, it's an emotional experience.
Much chalk is flung about.
Josh has breezed through the lower mathematics. The wall turns out to be calculus. There are lower walls on the way that, although Kornbluth doesn't smash into them like Wile E. Coyote, do trip him up. There's the little matter of his student employment, for example. First he works assisting a biology professor.