It wasn’t until the professor brought up the Beatles that freshman Matt Micheals realized his mistake.

“The whole time I was in class, I was a bit confused,” Michaels said. “Everyone kept talking about songs and artists, but I was here to learn about metamorphics and sedimentaries.”

Michaels said he had been sitting in “History of Rock” barely paying attention through the first few weeks of class and thought maybe there was a mistake on his schedule.

“I didn’t want to talk my advisor about it, though,” he said. “I just figured this was college. We have to get through the boring stuff like AC/DC and Guns n Roses before we could get to the exciting stuff like carbon dating and the history of tectonic plates.”

The “History of Rock” professor saw it the opposite way.

“I could never understand how he could look so tired and bored as we discussed legends like Jimmie Hendrix and Hank Williams,” professor Jim Joy said. “I just figured he was having a rough semester.”

This all changed when Joy brought up George, Ringo, Paul and John.

“I honestly wasn’t sure if we were talking about dung beetles or the band,” Micheals said. “I know a lot about both.”

Beetles of all kind are his favorite topic, he said. The Beatles are the only music Michaels listens to and he claims he will never allow another artist to hit his ears because “it’s just not worth it.”

“Dung beetles change the world from a geological level little by little,” he said. “The Beatles changed the world on every level in ways you couldn’t avoid seeing!”