NOEL KING, HOST:
Good morning. I'm Noel King. Aly Oliver, a college student in Colorado, was prepping for a Zoom class when she noticed her mom noticing her professor.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Oh, my God. That guy is a babe.
KING: She planned a set-up. Her mom would accidently walk in while Aly was in office hours. Millions of views later, her professor made Aly write an essay about intellectual property rights on social media. Aly says she'll just leave her mom's number at the end of the essay. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.