Had a professor from Greece. He outright stated that he hated Americans and our public education system. Good thing he was teaching at a public American college. He didn't last long
Mine was easily my Italian language professor during my undergrad. He wasn't Italian and hailed from India or Pakistan, so he already had a pretty thick accent which made understanding him pretty darn hard. He spent the entire class talking about Italy, how to act there, where to go, his life, his experiences, etc. Everything except for the actual Italian language, how to speak it, how to read it, etc. By the time the first test came, the entire class had to effectively teach themselves basic Italian. Learning a new language has always been hard for me, so I needed more guidance and teaching rather than reading a textbook. I dropped the class and took it again with another professor who was an absolute gem.
That sounds disturbingly like my Senior French teacher in highschool. She would teach us the bare minimum and expect us to be fluent. She would spend about a quarter of the class actually teaching and the rest she would tell us these long, boring (and possibly made up) stories about her time living in the Ivory Coast
@@Mischief_Manager93 I HATE teachers like that. Just teach me the subject. I do not care about your life unless it has relevance on the subject bc I'm paying for this class and I expect to be taught it.
I agree but it shouldn’t be the first thing to do, You probably would end up getting rid of not only the teachers but half the entire staff that are only employed because of tenure
Tenure can be revoked for certain reasons. Perhaps the reasons for revocation are what need changed, as most reasons involve things like losing their license, committing a felony, more serious violations.
I took this intro to Journalism class (to fill up my semester). Professor started out telling us that she didn't like Professors who just read from power points instead of teaching. She was friendly enough, but she read off power points instead of teaching.
We had a college proff who everyone in the class doing so well he gave them a pop midterm. People complained to the dean because you can't give a surprise mid term. But it also showed us that the college is effectively trying to fail people
That one teacher always picked on me and unfairly criticized my work. It was an art class. She even didn't believe i was sick until I nearly threwup in class, she had a panic-attack and was convinced to let me go home.
Not worst, but best. My prof takes picks at us (jokingly) and allows us to do the same within reason. If we need help, he actively helps us outside of class time and he does this to the night. He tries to get marks back to us within a week or two and lets us know if he needs more time grading. I could go on, but I can't be bothered. My point is that he's good
ONE of my best professors was a cartoonist. He taught calculus II and when he saw that I was blind he literally made graphs by basically dragging a pen over paper hard enough that the lines were tactile, but not hard enough that it was a bunch of ripped paper. Then he looked up the Braille dots and attempted (quite accurately I might add) to write out the slide number and even the equation it was showing. The drawings were so detailed that I could immediately tell it was a cylinder and stuff, it even had the little wavy and dashed lines to indicate 2d rendering and everything. The man had me in tears. The other one was super shy, brilliant woman but EXTREMELY introverted. But she was phenomenal at teaching origami :)
My worst professor was one who I had to take because she was the only one who taught that class. She frequently came in 15 minutes late, but never unlocked the door so we'd be stuck sitting on the floor waiting. There was a policy that class was cancelled if the professor was 15 minutes or later, but she'd always just be there at that time, let us in, then take another 15 minutes to prepare, make copies and such. Even with the unprofessional behavior, she treated us like children and expected perfect behavior. It was ridiculous. I had to take what I thought was an important call during class and oh, boy. I got scuzzed pretty bad.
English Prof. Docked points if your paper supported a social position that the teacher opposed. Complained to the dean. English teacher started grading fairly. His wife (who I had for a different class) forged my name on a scantron sheet that scored poorly on the final exam. Intro Class. Prof bragged to his TA that 75% of his students were failing his class. Wrote tests where all answers were subjective. Only passes the kids that sucked up to him or (as rumor had it) sucked him. Years later was fired for doing "things" with students. Math teacher. Russian who routinely showed up to class drunk. He didn't think people could smell vodka. He'd lecture about the importance of doing homework for 15-20 min of a 55 min class. Didn't attend his own office hours. I complained and was insinuated that I just had a problem with his accent. I objected, refuted their claim, and challenged them to give him a breathalyzer test either before or after class.
0:57 my friends have very opposite experiences. People who taught any one of them Latin were happy about it and wanted to break it down because of the fascinating story about how Latin is the origin of existing languages and mannerisms. However, instructors who knew any language which is more commonly spoken today (in some other country) just expected students to roll with it as if they too speak that language everyday in the U.S. The ones who learned Latin came out much better at it than anyone who studied something else and now feel like they can revive it.
I commented on another video but am re-posting, so I apologize if anyone's seeing it again. Apologies for it being long but please bear with me. So this happened to me when I was taking biology. I'm totally blind and biology is in its nature somewhat more visual than other things, so I wasn't looking forward to this to begin with. Let me preface the rest of the story with this: By the end of the semester 80% of my class hated this professor, and I didn't do anything except exist. So on the first day, I find a spot at the front of the room mostly because it's close to the door and it's close to the professor in case I need to wave at them subtly to remind them to describe something when they forgot, which happened every now and again. The professor is like "Hey everyone, we have a blind student in our class and this is her spot." By the way I really didn't care where I sat, I just chose that spot because it was the first empty chair I found. Then they're like "Oh and she has an assistant who will be sitting next to her." What was actually going on was that somebody, preferrably someone with knowledge in the subject, was going to sit next to me and describe any complicated graphics. So by now my cheeks are bright red and I'm looking away just being like "oh God this is not a good start." A couple months go by, I'm in this professor's office and to the best of my recollection this conversation happens: Professor: "Hey, isn't there a school for the blind around here?" Me: "Uh, yes." Professor: "Oh! Shouldn't you be there, then?" Please note I'd been in public school all my life, so this was particularly insulting. Me: "No. I'm perfectly capable of going to public school." Professor: "But don't people at the blind school know how to teach you better?" ... And on and on and on. I found out later that the door was partly open so lots of students heard about this. Now I will say this: There are summer camps and the like where blind students can go and learn about chemistry and stuff. I've been to a couple of those. But that's not a full-on class. This professor just kept pointing me out during the rest of the semester ("Well in YOUR case, I guess I should say it feels like a lizard") ... and I literally don't know how I survived the semester. HOWEVER, the clincher comes when a friend I'd met in class, a fellow student like me, at one point toward the end of the semester is like "Dude I just received an email from the professor thanking me for being such a great human being and helping you out." I was just like "You have got to be kidding me?" Nope. Apparently blind people can't have friends who are just friends, they're always helpers. (Sarcasm intended.)
My Acting I teacher insisted Shakespeare didn’t tackle/question gender & society. 🤦♀️ I told the head board it’s not her job to discourage students but encourage discussion. Nothing came of it. I passed the class with a high grade but she gave me harder work than everyone else with assignments after not agreeing with her. Tackled them like a champ but still. Wtf.
My professor for ecology and biology, when I had biology and we were learning about blood typing and stuff, he made out this scenario about a murder and if it could be proven this one character did it. He technically never said scientifically prove, so because I was majoring and cared more about the legal field, I wrote out how since the same blood type of the suspect was found, along with the notice behind the crime, he'd most likely be able to be arrested and tried for the crime. This professor though disagreed because the type being the same didn't necessarily mean the character was guilty and basically that the back story/ motive wasn't as important... I disagreed then and still do for several reasons.
@@kaylapounds1359 So he’s never watched or read a mystery before? I agree with your reasons. No one does anything for nothing. Be that emotions, wants, needs, economic, safety, etc.
I’m actually surprised by these stories but one of my own was that my teacher made a racist remark in class. She was reported by the students and fired immediately.
12:16 That reminds me of a classmate who got screwed over by the community college in our hometown back in 2012. His father, a Vietnam vet, died during his 2nd year at the college and he was with him during the final couple of months of his life. After his death and funeral, he found out his grades had fallen. He could only do his homework and was unable to do any online work. He tried reaching out to one of his professors and some higher ups, including the dean, but no one really got back to him. He messaged the professor a 2nd time seeking help and despite not responding back, she turned the message in 3 months later for harassment. One of the higher ups he talked to put down his father and went after him for choosing to say goodbye to his father over school. He was told to send an appeal so he could try to take summer courses, save his scholarships, and get back on track, but the appeal was basically ignored. He launched a petition to dismiss the false accusations against him and created a FB page going after the college. However, roughly 2 dozen people signed the petition and liked the FB page. He ultimately dropped out, but later enrolled at another local 2 yr college and graduated 3 yrs after that fiasco.
i had a physics professor like that one guy. she was such a nice lady, incredibly smart. but she just couldn’t explain basics well. so 98% of her students hated her class and her. she would get frustrated trying to explain basics. she was one of my favorite professors though because physics just clicked for me and i finished with a 99.
I go to a college which is (only recently) known to be very bad and corrupt. Almost every professor I have had was horrible. In 4 years I have had maybe 3 or 4 good professors. Half of them just enter class and tell us "do this worksheet", sit at their desk and ignore any questions. The other half have no idea how to teach. I'm in a programming course and the few who don't just tell us to do worksheets will just code on their own and not explain anything. My grades went from low A's and high B's to low D's, barely passing every subject I have had. Edit: For anyone who's confused why I've been there for 4 years our education system makes us go to college as the last 2 years of high school and then degree/masters, which last 3 years
When I was in college, there was one incident that everyone immediately got angry at a professor. It was Asian art history. The first exam was covering only Chinese art. Most of it was ancient. Lots of the art and artifacts were ancient, belonging to ancient areas and kingdoms. Everyone on the test labeled these pieces as belonging to their ancient location and modern region equivalent. Since some of these places were not exactly modern day China, we didn’t write China. Teacher was furious we didn’t label these as being located in China. It was worth 18 points on the exam. So going from an A to a C ticked me off. Everyone else, too
I liked almost every professor I had in college. Obviously I liked some more than others. But there's only 2 I would prefer to never meet with again. The worst was my Comp 1 professor. I've had strict teachers that are no nonsense about things like tardiness but I've never had a professor so universally disliked. She was super fussy about the way we did things and would correct anybody you called her Miss/Ms. since she was "doctor" not Miss. It's pretty funny how I went from a C in her Comp 1 class to an A in Comp 2 with a different professor a few quarters later. I really tried to avoid ever having a class with her again (she taught some of the writing related Gen eds) which meant I chose to forgo creative writing although I really wanted to take it. I saw a creative writing course towards the end of my associates taught by a different professor and jumped at the opportunity. But I was seemingly cursed as that professor had a health issue come up and couldn't teach that class that quarter and the good "Dr" was her replacement! You know how much somebody just sucks all the energy out of the room when everybody goes so quiet when she comes in that you can hear a feather drop.
Sounds a lot like my Comp 1 situation. My first Comp 1 professor was an arrogant community college professor who wrote the textbook and was teaching us super elementary stuff like how to use a period while also expecting us to turn in Master's degree-level work. English/writing classes are usually classes I'm very good at and get A's in, but I was getting nothing but C's and D's, (despite the retired English teacher working in the student writing center reviewing my work and telling me it would get an A or at least a very high B if I were her student) and then had to drop the class because my uncle and my friend both passed and 1 paper was late since I was busy with funeral stuff, meaning automatic failure. Then I retook it in the summer with a different professor, and was worried because summer classes are accelerated and the first class was so impossible. Turns out, I had nothing to worry about. I got A's on everything, and the professor asked if she could use my final paper for future classes as an example of A+ worthy work. I also earned a 102% grade in that class. Sometimes the professor really makes or breaks a class...
18:45 My I have the same exact professor, he has decent teaching styles but his and an average student's understanding of math is way different and we often end up miscommunicating and stressing about the topics
Ah. I have one of these. Consistently showed up to class seemingly hung over and smelling of alcohol and could barely string a sentence together. Every third word or so, he’d break into a long string of, “Uh. Ah. Um. Ah- Uh,” that one of my friends (who was allowed to record the lectures due to a disability) has informed me lasted upwards of 15 seconds once, which seems to have been his record with us. He was also quite rude, adding his own theories that weren’t part of the curriculum (and that we couldn’t find in any research papers) and then telling us that he included them, but that we wouldn’t understand them because they were too advanced for us, so he wouldn’t teach them, so we’re fairly sure he did it as something of a weird flex. He actually got on TV for a documentary for a few minutes and a lot of us ended up watching that portion just to see what happened. The channel in question ended up editing him, seemingly to remove him stumbling over his words, and it sort of kept cutting weirdly if you paid close attention to it.
Had an economics college professor. He was great! Made the class laugh every lecture. He always managed to keep class interesting. He even wrote the damn textbook. I was one of his best students, in fact, he even recorded me to the college to be an official note taker for other students in the class, something the college paid me to do. Anyways, I got my grades at the end of the semester and I had a 37% in economics. I was completely astounded. The problem was, we were his last class ever. The man up and retired after our class and nobody told me I could dispute it with the college and so I ended up eating that 37%. I had to keep retaking economics since it was a core class to graduate but dropped the class after 3 classes each time. Tldr, one of my best teachers ever ended up being one of the worst
My writing professor never wrote anything on our rough drafts and she never answered questions we had. She was hard to work with. When someone asked her something, she would say "Idk, you tell me." If one little thing was missing from the paper and all other things that needed to be included, you got a 0. We had 5 papers (including the final) and I, a strong writer, made Ds on all of them. Without any markings to show where I was strong and where I needed to improve, I didn't know if I was truly heading in the right direction or if the paper was crap. Our final was a 2-3 page essay where we had to give our definition of college-level writing. Yeah, like a bunch of 1st year freshmen who graduated high school 6+ months earlier know what college-level writing is. I had writer's block (the only real time I had it) and I pulled an all-nighter trying to give my definition. My upper level history and political sciences classes were easier in comparison. Ultimately, I fell 1 pt short of passing and I had to take the class over again. Luckily, the 2nd professor was easier to work with and I passed with relative ease. And me and a handful of others took her for the other gen ed writing course the next semester. She left to get her PhD at the end of my freshman yr. She bounced around a couple of places and has been at Georgia Tech for several yrs. Based on reviews on Rate My Professor, she still hasn't changed over 12 yrs later. I do have a story regarding the 2nd writing professor, but it was in regard to someone who had her the semester after I graduated (Spring 2015). The only reason I knew was because I added the professor on FB toward the end of the 2nd gen ed writing course. At the end of the semester, she was trashing one of her students on FB. She was complaining about a student who wrote an argumentative paper arguing against abortion. She compared the paper to a Sunday School lecture and said she hoped she felt "religiously persecuted by her F." The professor is a Christian btw, mainly a part of the Christian Left. On a couple of occasions in the months after that, I ALMOST reported her to Campus Reform regarding her trashing the student behind her back, but I got cold feet. When I thought about it a 3rd time, my mom talked me out of it, noting that I could one day see her again. Not too long after, I unfollowed her to keep myself from one day removing her and maintaining my positive memories of her.
Had a material science prof who was an absolute ass. He belittled anyone who asked a "stupid question." The man treated an introductory course like it was a grad level class. I never got anything above a C, even after a curve. He made things way too difficult by trying to fit 2 classes worth of material into one. I basically gave up studying for exams because no matter how hard i tried my exam average would not move. The assigned textbook he wrote barely had any example problems to study from. The man graded papers more on the format, rather then the actual fucking engineering content. Which is ironic, considering that his textbook had tons of gramatical errors. His grading consisted namely of just big red question marks, with no other comments. He'll never get fired as hes good friends with the dean of the college.
Oh I got one! For some engineering/metallurgy classes this guy had the THICKEST accent, instead of “bronze” and “brass” we’d hear “Bros” and “bras” 😳 He was also the laziest idiot ever, he literally returned our first homework at the end of the semester!
There was a weather and climate class that I had to take back in the day. This particular professor had us buy the book, never used it, had questions on all his tests/quizzes that wasn't even covered in the material he lectured about or in the book and had a 98% fail rate in his classes. Even other professors had trouble following his lessons. He just didn't give a damn.
This feels like 1 of my profs last semester. He teaches using a presentation he makes. Then uses the questions from the textbook. I hate this style and the format of my major. Lecture is asynchronous and lab is at a scheduled time. Lecture is not really the focus and my profs make it seem that what you learn in lab is more important. He told one of my classmates class that they did not need a textbook. I told her that there was one. The only difference is that exams did not matter and he does not have a failure rate.
I had an audio class that was a prerequisite for graduation for my major. He showed up for the first class and then didn't show up for a bunch of classes (I'm sure it was half of them but I could be wrong). He didn't show up except to give us a final project. I went into the audio lab on my day off to record my audio for the final project. The settings on the computer I was using were so screwed up that I was getting feedback so I had turned down the recording volume. When I turned it in, the sound was too low for the project. When I tried explain what happened and ask for advice, he cussed me out and accused me of lying about my recording situation before failing me. I appealed the grade since why should I get a failing grade when I had a significantly better attendance record than the teacher who'd rather be on the other side of the country accepting awards (the reason he was absent for one of those weeks) and cussing out students than actually teaching the class. Because of the way I appealed, it was switched from an F to a non-specific passing grade. One of the many reasons that education has left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Not a college professor but in highschool. My math teacher was the worst to explaining how to do… math in general. I’m not joking when I’m saying that the entire class (including the best student), got the worst grades, the “best” grade was 40/100 (I thinks it’s a D, almost an F). The funny part? “It’s your fault if you don’t know how to do math, I explained everything” Excuse my English, since it’s not my first language
Perhaps the worst I had in college was for a psych course called "The Psychology of Learning." He either showed up late or not at all and did very little in the way of lecture or any other kind of teaching. The class seemed to be one of his statutory duties that just didn't interest him. He could be seen regularly at the outdoor tennis courts, though. It was impossible to know what to study for a test and get a good grade. To top things off, by "Learning" it meant the Behaviorist school, which by then was completely outdated. The overpriced textbook was a compendium of research on the operant conditioning of animals, not learning by people. (NB: My browser's spell checker doesn't recognize "operant.") Being young and dumb in those days, I had not learned to heed the red flags and drop the course while I still had time.
A professor in a test of psychology asked our opinion, I disagree with the point that was being made because it was ignoring the difference of culture that people can have and how that has impacts in development, according to her I got my opinion wrong, if she didn't want opinion she shouldn't have put it on bold letters on the question
My art teacher in 7th grade asked 7u to do an essay about 4 artistic movement that we never studied OVER THE WEEKEND (that was in argentina, where giving homework wasnt common). Everyone failed.
One more story ... I had to take the ONE professor who taught computer security. Their material was HORRIBLY incorrect. And by incorrect, I mean they were saying that certain things were protocols when they're not, that certain algorithms were broken when they're still in use, etc. ... I knew this because I'd had a little prior experience, but more so because I have friends who have decades' worth of industry experience. I got so mad that I eventually convinced the professor to host some professionals (the class was held over Zoom at the time). He agreed, and the next class was an hour and a half of two of my friends and one of their colleagues roasting this professor about everything he'd been teaching wrong up to this point. The professor looked like he was about to pass out on camera the whole time, and for the remainder of the semester (which was only a month or so) 85% of the class just straight up didn't show up. Proudest moment of my college career. Ever since then, evidently, there's a story going around about a student whom the professor HATES. ;-)
Yeah. That's pretty bad. Especially when you consider that the teacher sending the students out with inaccurate info and setting them up for failure in the industry.
@@Aro2001 yep. It got so bad that eventually I deliberately started quizzing him on stuff just to see what he'd say. He said that an industry conference was "for bad guys" in front of the professionals and all three were like "No" in unison. I forgot I was off mute and just busted out laughing and said something to the effect of "Guys don't scare us too badly" (I mean two of them were friends of mine who I'd hung out with on multiple occasions so I could get away with it). One of the professionals responded with something along the lines of "Well I had to deal with this stupid client once... I think his name was
My worst college professor was a meteorologist one who was a real motormouth! I had a hard time keeping up with him--I couldn't even take notes as he just rambled on & on jumping from one topic to another!
Had a Java professor that wasn't good at helping students out with helping students who're struggling with Java (I was one of them) He gave written tests. WRITTEN. TESTS. For Java - A programming language
I mean I know you have to have some degree of coding proficiency, that's kinda part of the course but still, that's terrible. Google / StackOverflow were my friends, not memorized syntax.
I got a good one! I needed to take an English class for transfer requirements so I decided to take this one prof. Lets call her "Prof Susan". Her Rate my professors page/ratings looked good but she was a humanities professor most of her career and also in her RMP profile. But I already enrolled for the class so I decided to continue. This was a 4 week Online intercession class in Jan winter break. So the syllabus states that we'll have group discussions and 4 essays (1 essay per week) and we have an opportunity to edit and fix it if needed before the next essay is due. And I thought this is easy. The group discussions were incoherent. The website itself was unorganized and I couldn't find the assignments on Portal. This is the equivalent of a messy desk and can't find anything but in a computer software version. And It was a disaster. The first essay I turned it in and then she graded it and a C average and then I redid it and edit it. But she graded it worse than ever to a D. Second essay I got a D. Third Essay I got a ZERO and I didn't even bother do fix it. Also since its Intersession the English tutors on campus are not available since its still winter vacation. The final essay I turned it in with this message "Prof Susan, I tried my best but this class is very incoherent and it does not feel like an English class. This feels like a sociology class and I've taken TWO sociology classes before (SOCO 101 and 110). I'll just take whatever the final grade is and retake this class in Spring. Prof Susan responded "Mr. River, I'm sorry this didn't work out for you" and such. I really wanted to say this to her in response "YOU'RE NOT SORRY, YOU'RE DIFFICULT! And you're not an English prof. You're a humanities Professor. Go back to your subject." Trying to get the New English class was a new problem. Since the Winter intercession classes are tied with the Spring Semester I needed to forcefully get Prof Susans class out of my schedule and extract my grade somehow. It took a few days. But when I asked Susan "Can you drop/remove me from your class? I need to get out of your roster so I can take the new class." And Susan said "I don't think anyone has that authority or power of doing so. You'll need to talk to advisor about that." And I said "Who is Advisor? Prof I need to get into the new class before my add code expires" In the end I got the new class and passed. I left Susan a rating on RMP. Not a good review, just 1 star and DO NOT TAKE HER
Under no circumstances break down and major in education based upon specious concerns such as thinking you need something “to fall back on”. The teaching methods professors have nothing to teach, couldn’t teach it even if they knew anything, and will treat you like one of the high school kids they used to torment for a living. If you want a job credential then get one pertaining to a real job where you get paid real money to work 50 weeks per year like a normal adult. Such as marine engineering at a maritime academy, or accounting at a state university. Watch The Breakfast Club and heed the speech given to the asshole detention hall monitor by the sharper than all the teachers school custodian who incidentally has a real job, because he works 50 weeks per year just like all the normal people.
I have a few professors this semester who are not good. My emergency care in Sports medicine professor is not great. My Anatomy professor is terrible with scheduling. I have had exams after the SB, St. Patricks and I have one on Easter. My other two profs are actually good. Luckily I only have a month left.
I have a really good one. I hope someone reads this because oh boy this still gets me mad like 2 years later. So, I was taking a linguistics course because I had to take it for my English major. It was pretty hard for me and I didn't really understand what was going on. Another thing you should keep in mind is that this class was online, because it was still pandemic times. Anyway, I turned my hw in, and when I got it back, she typed, "Thanks for making it hard for me to grade." I had never had a teacher be so passive aggressive like that it was insane. I was shocked. I should've gone to someone right then, but I waited until the surveys to judge your professor came out, and then I told whoever's in charge of those surveys what she said. I hope she was fired. Or at least got a serious talking to. I still can't believe that happened
I had a Chicano studies teacher show some racist behaviors towards me (a white female) and the only other two white students in her class. One prime example: no one wanted to answer some questions in class, and being uncomfortable with silence and having answers I would raise my hand to answer. The teacher eventually told me I was using my white privilege to put down my chicanx classmates (literally no one wanted to be there or answer questions- someone tell me how that's white privilege). Probably a month around the end of the semester I stopped taking notes on my laptop and dicked around on Facebook, not caring who saw, not participating in anything even if the teacher asked if I had anything to say (which she started doing after telling me off). It was a Friday only class and the majority of the homework needed to be done before class so participation was minimal and grades were easy if you did the homework. Frick that teacher
Had a class all about super hero movies, basically watch a movie and talk about it once a week. We watched Hancock, a super hero movie staring will smith. Professor gave a long speech about how the movie was about racism, I said I didn’t really get that feel from it (and maybe I’m wrong idk, I don’t pay attention to race so I’m kinda blind to it) he said, and I quote, “why would they hire will smith if it wasn’t about race?” I said it’s because Hancock is a scrappy underdog hero, and will smith is AMAZING at that role. Professor declared me racist for saying will smith was a good actor. Please note, that was what the actual director said. They openly admitted they hired will smith because he was very popular at the time and they needed a draw for the movie to compete with bigger name super hero movies. Also in the original comic it’s based off of Hancock is white (I’m pretty sure it’s been years) so the racism argument wouldn’t really apply. I always thought it was more about responsibility and consequences than anything but idk I’m no film critic. Dude banned me from class and I had to get the dean involved. The dean said he was being racist and had to get after him to let me back in. He then kicked me out of another class I needed to graduate because he saw me without a mask on in the hall. Always had one in his class but I rushed from my room to his class and often forgot, as they were optional at that time. I said I wouldn’t leave over that, needed the class, and the registrar dropped me anyways because ‘the professor is too old and doesn’t understand email’. If you don’t understand email you probably better retire in 2021, it’s digital get over it.
not my story but I heard about this professor from Italy that was near his retirement but still strict, you didn't want to miss his lecture let alone a test. so when he scheduled his test let's say 30.3. my friend wanted to schedule the trip outside the country with her BF and to be back by 25.3., she just arrived at her destination, and the date is 20.3. a day passes and her friend just called her, the professor changed the date of the test to a week early, which is 23.3., now panicking my friend spent a day finding a way to travel back, and she manages to get back on time to Italy, and a day letter was at the test with the rest of the students, but there was no professor, he forgot he changed the date and didn't show up.
I had a opposite version of this, idk the name of the class but it was so fuckin woke I don’t care about politics but we talked about sexuality, sex in general, self esteem, etc. It felt like a basic high school class though, enough extra credit that I didn’t have to even go for the last 2 months. Professor was fired and never seen again probably because 100% of the class got an A
Speaking of Shakespeare, I had to take a Shakespeare course during summer school in college. The Prof. said there's no way we can get through a whole classes worth of study during summer school; so, you'll have to read 1 play per night. One play per night! Do you know how long Shakesperian plays are? Written in old English? I couldn't even keep up with the cliff notes! The only reason he passed me with a C was because during the final exam ( stated Shakespeare wrote the wrong ending to one play, and should've written this!
Had a professor from Greece. He outright stated that he hated Americans and our public education system. Good thing he was teaching at a public American college. He didn't last long
my backtalking ass wouldve immediately been like "then why are you teaching your enemy"
Mine was easily my Italian language professor during my undergrad. He wasn't Italian and hailed from India or Pakistan, so he already had a pretty thick accent which made understanding him pretty darn hard. He spent the entire class talking about Italy, how to act there, where to go, his life, his experiences, etc. Everything except for the actual Italian language, how to speak it, how to read it, etc. By the time the first test came, the entire class had to effectively teach themselves basic Italian. Learning a new language has always been hard for me, so I needed more guidance and teaching rather than reading a textbook. I dropped the class and took it again with another professor who was an absolute gem.
That sounds disturbingly like my Senior French teacher in highschool. She would teach us the bare minimum and expect us to be fluent. She would spend about a quarter of the class actually teaching and the rest she would tell us these long, boring (and possibly made up) stories about her time living in the Ivory Coast
@@Mischief_Manager93 I HATE teachers like that. Just teach me the subject. I do not care about your life unless it has relevance on the subject bc I'm paying for this class and I expect to be taught it.
This is why we need to get rid of the tenure system.
I agree but it shouldn’t be the first thing to do, You probably would end up getting rid of not only the teachers but half the entire staff that are only employed because of tenure
Tenure can be revoked for certain reasons. Perhaps the reasons for revocation are what need changed, as most reasons involve things like losing their license, committing a felony, more serious violations.
@@SonOvaSon That's what you call "cleaning house"
@@henta.i.3838 I concur with that sentiment but the majority of parents don’t care enough to fill in the gap it will leave, it gon be ugly
Tenure is dying anyway. Especially in the humanities.
I took this intro to Journalism class (to fill up my semester). Professor started out telling us that she didn't like Professors who just read from power points instead of teaching. She was friendly enough, but she read off power points instead of teaching.
We had a college proff who everyone in the class doing so well he gave them a pop midterm.
People complained to the dean because you can't give a surprise mid term. But it also showed us that the college is effectively trying to fail people
That one teacher always picked on me and unfairly criticized my work. It was an art class. She even didn't believe i was sick until I nearly threwup in class, she had a panic-attack and was convinced to let me go home.
Not worst, but best. My prof takes picks at us (jokingly) and allows us to do the same within reason. If we need help, he actively helps us outside of class time and he does this to the night. He tries to get marks back to us within a week or two and lets us know if he needs more time grading. I could go on, but I can't be bothered. My point is that he's good
ONE of my best professors was a cartoonist. He taught calculus II and when he saw that I was blind he literally made graphs by basically dragging a pen over paper hard enough that the lines were tactile, but not hard enough that it was a bunch of ripped paper. Then he looked up the Braille dots and attempted (quite accurately I might add) to write out the slide number and even the equation it was showing. The drawings were so detailed that I could immediately tell it was a cylinder and stuff, it even had the little wavy and dashed lines to indicate 2d rendering and everything. The man had me in tears. The other one was super shy, brilliant woman but EXTREMELY introverted. But she was phenomenal at teaching origami :)
@@supark9443 how did you type this if you are blind
@@barnousauresrex2662 I have a screen reader that essentially reads what's on the screen in audio form.
My worst professor was one who I had to take because she was the only one who taught that class. She frequently came in 15 minutes late, but never unlocked the door so we'd be stuck sitting on the floor waiting. There was a policy that class was cancelled if the professor was 15 minutes or later, but she'd always just be there at that time, let us in, then take another 15 minutes to prepare, make copies and such. Even with the unprofessional behavior, she treated us like children and expected perfect behavior. It was ridiculous. I had to take what I thought was an important call during class and oh, boy. I got scuzzed pretty bad.
English Prof. Docked points if your paper supported a social position that the teacher opposed. Complained to the dean. English teacher started grading fairly. His wife (who I had for a different class) forged my name on a scantron sheet that scored poorly on the final exam.
Intro Class. Prof bragged to his TA that 75% of his students were failing his class. Wrote tests where all answers were subjective. Only passes the kids that sucked up to him or (as rumor had it) sucked him. Years later was fired for doing "things" with students.
Math teacher. Russian who routinely showed up to class drunk. He didn't think people could smell vodka. He'd lecture about the importance of doing homework for 15-20 min of a 55 min class. Didn't attend his own office hours. I complained and was insinuated that I just had a problem with his accent. I objected, refuted their claim, and challenged them to give him a breathalyzer test either before or after class.
17:39 holy shit that was my physics professor too! It always felt like he was so smart he couldn't convey it to us
0:57 my friends have very opposite experiences. People who taught any one of them Latin were happy about it and wanted to break it down because of the fascinating story about how Latin is the origin of existing languages and mannerisms. However, instructors who knew any language which is more commonly spoken today (in some other country) just expected students to roll with it as if they too speak that language everyday in the U.S.
The ones who learned Latin came out much better at it than anyone who studied something else and now feel like they can revive it.
I commented on another video but am re-posting, so I apologize if anyone's seeing it again. Apologies for it being long but please bear with me. So this happened to me when I was taking biology. I'm totally blind and biology is in its nature somewhat more visual than other things, so I wasn't looking forward to this to begin with. Let me preface the rest of the story with this: By the end of the semester 80% of my class hated this professor, and I didn't do anything except exist. So on the first day, I find a spot at the front of the room mostly because it's close to the door and it's close to the professor in case I need to wave at them subtly to remind them to describe something when they forgot, which happened every now and again. The professor is like "Hey everyone, we have a blind student in our class and this is her spot." By the way I really didn't care where I sat, I just chose that spot because it was the first empty chair I found. Then they're like "Oh and she has an assistant who will be sitting next to her." What was actually going on was that somebody, preferrably someone with knowledge in the subject, was going to sit next to me and describe any complicated graphics. So by now my cheeks are bright red and I'm looking away just being like "oh God this is not a good start." A couple months go by, I'm in this professor's office and to the best of my recollection this conversation happens:
Professor: "Hey, isn't there a school for the blind around here?"
Me: "Uh, yes."
Professor: "Oh! Shouldn't you be there, then?"
Please note I'd been in public school all my life, so this was particularly insulting. Me: "No. I'm perfectly capable of going to public school."
Professor: "But don't people at the blind school know how to teach you better?"
... And on and on and on. I found out later that the door was partly open so lots of students heard about this. Now I will say this: There are summer camps and the like where blind students can go and learn about chemistry and stuff. I've been to a couple of those. But that's not a full-on class. This professor just kept pointing me out during the rest of the semester ("Well in YOUR case, I guess I should say it feels like a lizard") ... and I literally don't know how I survived the semester. HOWEVER, the clincher comes when a friend I'd met in class, a fellow student like me, at one point toward the end of the semester is like "Dude I just received an email from the professor thanking me for being such a great human being and helping you out." I was just like "You have got to be kidding me?" Nope. Apparently blind people can't have friends who are just friends, they're always helpers. (Sarcasm intended.)
My Acting I teacher insisted Shakespeare didn’t tackle/question gender & society. 🤦♀️ I told the head board it’s not her job to discourage students but encourage discussion. Nothing came of it. I passed the class with a high grade but she gave me harder work than everyone else with assignments after not agreeing with her. Tackled them like a champ but still. Wtf.
My professor for ecology and biology, when I had biology and we were learning about blood typing and stuff, he made out this scenario about a murder and if it could be proven this one character did it. He technically never said scientifically prove, so because I was majoring and cared more about the legal field, I wrote out how since the same blood type of the suspect was found, along with the notice behind the crime, he'd most likely be able to be arrested and tried for the crime. This professor though disagreed because the type being the same didn't necessarily mean the character was guilty and basically that the back story/ motive wasn't as important... I disagreed then and still do for several reasons.
@@kaylapounds1359 So he’s never watched or read a mystery before? I agree with your reasons. No one does anything for nothing. Be that emotions, wants, needs, economic, safety, etc.
I’m actually surprised by these stories but one of my own was that my teacher made a racist remark in class. She was reported by the students and fired immediately.
Any teacher thats says the majority will fail and sound proud of it it telling on themselves
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That reminds me of a classmate who got screwed over by the community college in our hometown back in 2012. His father, a Vietnam vet, died during his 2nd year at the college and he was with him during the final couple of months of his life. After his death and funeral, he found out his grades had fallen. He could only do his homework and was unable to do any online work.
He tried reaching out to one of his professors and some higher ups, including the dean, but no one really got back to him. He messaged the professor a 2nd time seeking help and despite not responding back, she turned the message in 3 months later for harassment. One of the higher ups he talked to put down his father and went after him for choosing to say goodbye to his father over school. He was told to send an appeal so he could try to take summer courses, save his scholarships, and get back on track, but the appeal was basically ignored.
He launched a petition to dismiss the false accusations against him and created a FB page going after the college. However, roughly 2 dozen people signed the petition and liked the FB page.
He ultimately dropped out, but later enrolled at another local 2 yr college and graduated 3 yrs after that fiasco.
i had a physics professor like that one guy. she was such a nice lady, incredibly smart. but she just couldn’t explain basics well. so 98% of her students hated her class and her. she would get frustrated trying to explain basics. she was one of my favorite professors though because physics just clicked for me and i finished with a 99.
I go to a college which is (only recently) known to be very bad and corrupt. Almost every professor I have had was horrible. In 4 years I have had maybe 3 or 4 good professors. Half of them just enter class and tell us "do this worksheet", sit at their desk and ignore any questions. The other half have no idea how to teach. I'm in a programming course and the few who don't just tell us to do worksheets will just code on their own and not explain anything. My grades went from low A's and high B's to low D's, barely passing every subject I have had.
Edit: For anyone who's confused why I've been there for 4 years our education system makes us go to college as the last 2 years of high school and then degree/masters, which last 3 years
When I was in college, there was one incident that everyone immediately got angry at a professor. It was Asian art history. The first exam was covering only Chinese art. Most of it was ancient. Lots of the art and artifacts were ancient, belonging to ancient areas and kingdoms. Everyone on the test labeled these pieces as belonging to their ancient location and modern region equivalent. Since some of these places were not exactly modern day China, we didn’t write China. Teacher was furious we didn’t label these as being located in China. It was worth 18 points on the exam. So going from an A to a C ticked me off. Everyone else, too
I liked almost every professor I had in college. Obviously I liked some more than others. But there's only 2 I would prefer to never meet with again. The worst was my Comp 1 professor. I've had strict teachers that are no nonsense about things like tardiness but I've never had a professor so universally disliked. She was super fussy about the way we did things and would correct anybody you called her Miss/Ms. since she was "doctor" not Miss. It's pretty funny how I went from a C in her Comp 1 class to an A in Comp 2 with a different professor a few quarters later. I really tried to avoid ever having a class with her again (she taught some of the writing related Gen eds) which meant I chose to forgo creative writing although I really wanted to take it. I saw a creative writing course towards the end of my associates taught by a different professor and jumped at the opportunity. But I was seemingly cursed as that professor had a health issue come up and couldn't teach that class that quarter and the good "Dr" was her replacement! You know how much somebody just sucks all the energy out of the room when everybody goes so quiet when she comes in that you can hear a feather drop.
Sounds a lot like my Comp 1 situation. My first Comp 1 professor was an arrogant community college professor who wrote the textbook and was teaching us super elementary stuff like how to use a period while also expecting us to turn in Master's degree-level work. English/writing classes are usually classes I'm very good at and get A's in, but I was getting nothing but C's and D's, (despite the retired English teacher working in the student writing center reviewing my work and telling me it would get an A or at least a very high B if I were her student) and then had to drop the class because my uncle and my friend both passed and 1 paper was late since I was busy with funeral stuff, meaning automatic failure.
Then I retook it in the summer with a different professor, and was worried because summer classes are accelerated and the first class was so impossible. Turns out, I had nothing to worry about. I got A's on everything, and the professor asked if she could use my final paper for future classes as an example of A+ worthy work. I also earned a 102% grade in that class. Sometimes the professor really makes or breaks a class...
18:45 My I have the same exact professor, he has decent teaching styles but his and an average student's understanding of math is way different and we often end up miscommunicating and stressing about the topics
Ah. I have one of these. Consistently showed up to class seemingly hung over and smelling of alcohol and could barely string a sentence together. Every third word or so, he’d break into a long string of, “Uh. Ah. Um. Ah- Uh,” that one of my friends (who was allowed to record the lectures due to a disability) has informed me lasted upwards of 15 seconds once, which seems to have been his record with us. He was also quite rude, adding his own theories that weren’t part of the curriculum (and that we couldn’t find in any research papers) and then telling us that he included them, but that we wouldn’t understand them because they were too advanced for us, so he wouldn’t teach them, so we’re fairly sure he did it as something of a weird flex. He actually got on TV for a documentary for a few minutes and a lot of us ended up watching that portion just to see what happened. The channel in question ended up editing him, seemingly to remove him stumbling over his words, and it sort of kept cutting weirdly if you paid close attention to it.
Had an economics college professor. He was great! Made the class laugh every lecture. He always managed to keep class interesting. He even wrote the damn textbook. I was one of his best students, in fact, he even recorded me to the college to be an official note taker for other students in the class, something the college paid me to do. Anyways, I got my grades at the end of the semester and I had a 37% in economics. I was completely astounded. The problem was, we were his last class ever. The man up and retired after our class and nobody told me I could dispute it with the college and so I ended up eating that 37%. I had to keep retaking economics since it was a core class to graduate but dropped the class after 3 classes each time.
Tldr, one of my best teachers ever ended up being one of the worst
My writing professor never wrote anything on our rough drafts and she never answered questions we had. She was hard to work with. When someone asked her something, she would say "Idk, you tell me."
If one little thing was missing from the paper and all other things that needed to be included, you got a 0.
We had 5 papers (including the final) and I, a strong writer, made Ds on all of them. Without any markings to show where I was strong and where I needed to improve, I didn't know if I was truly heading in the right direction or if the paper was crap.
Our final was a 2-3 page essay where we had to give our definition of college-level writing. Yeah, like a bunch of 1st year freshmen who graduated high school 6+ months earlier know what college-level writing is.
I had writer's block (the only real time I had it) and I pulled an all-nighter trying to give my definition. My upper level history and political sciences classes were easier in comparison. Ultimately, I fell 1 pt short of passing and I had to take the class over again. Luckily, the 2nd professor was easier to work with and I passed with relative ease. And me and a handful of others took her for the other gen ed writing course the next semester.
She left to get her PhD at the end of my freshman yr. She bounced around a couple of places and has been at Georgia Tech for several yrs. Based on reviews on Rate My Professor, she still hasn't changed over 12 yrs later.
I do have a story regarding the 2nd writing professor, but it was in regard to someone who had her the semester after I graduated (Spring 2015). The only reason I knew was because I added the professor on FB toward the end of the 2nd gen ed writing course. At the end of the semester, she was trashing one of her students on FB. She was complaining about a student who wrote an argumentative paper arguing against abortion. She compared the paper to a Sunday School lecture and said she hoped she felt "religiously persecuted by her F." The professor is a Christian btw, mainly a part of the Christian Left.
On a couple of occasions in the months after that, I ALMOST reported her to Campus Reform regarding her trashing the student behind her back, but I got cold feet. When I thought about it a 3rd time, my mom talked me out of it, noting that I could one day see her again. Not too long after, I unfollowed her to keep myself from one day removing her and maintaining my positive memories of her.
Had a material science prof who was an absolute ass. He belittled anyone who asked a "stupid question." The man treated an introductory course like it was a grad level class. I never got anything above a C, even after a curve. He made things way too difficult by trying to fit 2 classes worth of material into one. I basically gave up studying for exams because no matter how hard i tried my exam average would not move. The assigned textbook he wrote barely had any example problems to study from. The man graded papers more on the format, rather then the actual fucking engineering content. Which is ironic, considering that his textbook had tons of gramatical errors. His grading consisted namely of just big red question marks, with no other comments. He'll never get fired as hes good friends with the dean of the college.
What a clown
Oh I got one! For some engineering/metallurgy classes this guy had the THICKEST accent, instead of “bronze” and “brass” we’d hear “Bros” and “bras” 😳 He was also the laziest idiot ever, he literally returned our first homework at the end of the semester!
There was a weather and climate class that I had to take back in the day. This particular professor had us buy the book, never used it, had questions on all his tests/quizzes that wasn't even covered in the material he lectured about or in the book and had a 98% fail rate in his classes.
Even other professors had trouble following his lessons. He just didn't give a damn.
He probably wrote the book ;)
This feels like 1 of my profs last semester. He teaches using a presentation he makes. Then uses the questions from the textbook. I hate this style and the format of my major. Lecture is asynchronous and lab is at a scheduled time. Lecture is not really the focus and my profs make it seem that what you learn in lab is more important. He told one of my classmates class that they did not need a textbook. I told her that there was one. The only difference is that exams did not matter and he does not have a failure rate.
I had an audio class that was a prerequisite for graduation for my major. He showed up for the first class and then didn't show up for a bunch of classes (I'm sure it was half of them but I could be wrong). He didn't show up except to give us a final project.
I went into the audio lab on my day off to record my audio for the final project. The settings on the computer I was using were so screwed up that I was getting feedback so I had turned down the recording volume. When I turned it in, the sound was too low for the project. When I tried explain what happened and ask for advice, he cussed me out and accused me of lying about my recording situation before failing me.
I appealed the grade since why should I get a failing grade when I had a significantly better attendance record than the teacher who'd rather be on the other side of the country accepting awards (the reason he was absent for one of those weeks) and cussing out students than actually teaching the class. Because of the way I appealed, it was switched from an F to a non-specific passing grade. One of the many reasons that education has left a bitter taste in my mouth.
Holy crap man. I thought some of mine were terrible. Nope.
Not a college professor but in highschool.
My math teacher was the worst to explaining how to do… math in general.
I’m not joking when I’m saying that the entire class (including the best student), got the worst grades, the “best” grade was 40/100 (I thinks it’s a D, almost an F).
The funny part? “It’s your fault if you don’t know how to do math, I explained everything”
Excuse my English, since it’s not my first language
1:20 had an art teacher just like that in highschool. Freaky
Perhaps the worst I had in college was for a psych course called "The Psychology of Learning." He either showed up late or not at all and did very little in the way of lecture or any other kind of teaching. The class seemed to be one of his statutory duties that just didn't interest him. He could be seen regularly at the outdoor tennis courts, though. It was impossible to know what to study for a test and get a good grade. To top things off, by "Learning" it meant the Behaviorist school, which by then was completely outdated. The overpriced textbook was a compendium of research on the operant conditioning of animals, not learning by people. (NB: My browser's spell checker doesn't recognize "operant.") Being young and dumb in those days, I had not learned to heed the red flags and drop the course while I still had time.
A professor in a test of psychology asked our opinion, I disagree with the point that was being made because it was ignoring the difference of culture that people can have and how that has impacts in development, according to her I got my opinion wrong, if she didn't want opinion she shouldn't have put it on bold letters on the question
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My art teacher in 7th grade asked 7u to do an essay about 4 artistic movement that we never studied OVER THE WEEKEND (that was in argentina, where giving homework wasnt common). Everyone failed.
One more story ... I had to take the ONE professor who taught computer security. Their material was HORRIBLY incorrect. And by incorrect, I mean they were saying that certain things were protocols when they're not, that certain algorithms were broken when they're still in use, etc. ... I knew this because I'd had a little prior experience, but more so because I have friends who have decades' worth of industry experience. I got so mad that I eventually convinced the professor to host some professionals (the class was held over Zoom at the time). He agreed, and the next class was an hour and a half of two of my friends and one of their colleagues roasting this professor about everything he'd been teaching wrong up to this point. The professor looked like he was about to pass out on camera the whole time, and for the remainder of the semester (which was only a month or so) 85% of the class just straight up didn't show up. Proudest moment of my college career. Ever since then, evidently, there's a story going around about a student whom the professor HATES. ;-)
Yeah. That's pretty bad. Especially when you consider that the teacher sending the students out with inaccurate info and setting them up for failure in the industry.
@@Aro2001 yep. It got so bad that eventually I deliberately started quizzing him on stuff just to see what he'd say. He said that an industry conference was "for bad guys" in front of the professionals and all three were like "No" in unison. I forgot I was off mute and just busted out laughing and said something to the effect of "Guys don't scare us too badly" (I mean two of them were friends of mine who I'd hung out with on multiple occasions so I could get away with it). One of the professionals responded with something along the lines of "Well I had to deal with this stupid client once... I think his name was
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My worst college professor was a meteorologist one who was a real motormouth! I had a hard time keeping up with him--I couldn't even take notes as he just rambled on & on jumping from one topic to another!
Had a Java professor that wasn't good at helping students out with helping students who're struggling with Java (I was one of them)
He gave written tests. WRITTEN. TESTS. For Java - A programming language
The crap? What were you supposed to do, write out code segments or something? * sigh *
@@supark9443 yep
I mean I know you have to have some degree of coding proficiency, that's kinda part of the course but still, that's terrible. Google / StackOverflow were my friends, not memorized syntax.
@@supaanimegal4894 this is the dumbest thing out there
I got a good one!
I needed to take an English class for transfer requirements so I decided to take this one prof. Lets call her "Prof Susan". Her Rate my professors page/ratings looked good but she was a humanities professor most of her career and also in her RMP profile. But I already enrolled for the class so I decided to continue. This was a 4 week Online intercession class in Jan winter break.
So the syllabus states that we'll have group discussions and 4 essays (1 essay per week) and we have an opportunity to edit and fix it if needed before the next essay is due. And I thought this is easy.
The group discussions were incoherent. The website itself was unorganized and I couldn't find the assignments on Portal. This is the equivalent of a messy desk and can't find anything but in a computer software version. And It was a disaster.
The first essay I turned it in and then she graded it and a C average and then I redid it and edit it. But she graded it worse than ever to a D. Second essay I got a D. Third Essay I got a ZERO and I didn't even bother do fix it. Also since its Intersession the English tutors on campus are not available since its still winter vacation. The final essay I turned it in with this message "Prof Susan, I tried my best but this class is very incoherent and it does not feel like an English class. This feels like a sociology class and I've taken TWO sociology classes before (SOCO 101 and 110). I'll just take whatever the final grade is and retake this class in Spring.
Prof Susan responded "Mr. River, I'm sorry this didn't work out for you" and such. I really wanted to say this to her in response "YOU'RE NOT SORRY, YOU'RE DIFFICULT! And you're not an English prof. You're a humanities Professor. Go back to your subject."
Trying to get the New English class was a new problem. Since the Winter intercession classes are tied with the Spring Semester I needed to forcefully get Prof Susans class out of my schedule and extract my grade somehow. It took a few days. But when I asked Susan "Can you drop/remove me from your class? I need to get out of your roster so I can take the new class." And Susan said "I don't think anyone has that authority or power of doing so. You'll need to talk to advisor about that." And I said "Who is Advisor? Prof I need to get into the new class before my add code expires"
In the end I got the new class and passed. I left Susan a rating on RMP. Not a good review, just 1 star and DO NOT TAKE HER
Under no circumstances break down and major in education based upon specious concerns such as thinking you need something “to fall back on”. The teaching methods professors have nothing to teach, couldn’t teach it even if they knew anything, and will treat you like one of the high school kids they used to torment for a living. If you want a job credential then get one pertaining to a real job where you get paid real money to work 50 weeks per year like a normal adult. Such as marine engineering at a maritime academy, or accounting at a state university. Watch The Breakfast Club and heed the speech given to the asshole detention hall monitor by the sharper than all the teachers school custodian who incidentally has a real job, because he works 50 weeks per year just like all the normal people.
I have a few professors this semester who are not good. My emergency care in Sports medicine professor is not great. My Anatomy professor is terrible with scheduling. I have had exams after the SB, St. Patricks and I have one on Easter. My other two profs are actually good. Luckily I only have a month left.
I have a really good one. I hope someone reads this because oh boy this still gets me mad like 2 years later. So, I was taking a linguistics course because I had to take it for my English major. It was pretty hard for me and I didn't really understand what was going on. Another thing you should keep in mind is that this class was online, because it was still pandemic times. Anyway, I turned my hw in, and when I got it back, she typed, "Thanks for making it hard for me to grade." I had never had a teacher be so passive aggressive like that it was insane. I was shocked. I should've gone to someone right then, but I waited until the surveys to judge your professor came out, and then I told whoever's in charge of those surveys what she said. I hope she was fired. Or at least got a serious talking to. I still can't believe that happened
What did she actually grade the assignment? Passive aggressive is okay, so long as it's still fair.
@SageofStars it was fair but still. Passive aggressive isn't ok if you're a teacher.
This is the best argument for eliminating tenure.
I had a Chicano studies teacher show some racist behaviors towards me (a white female) and the only other two white students in her class. One prime example: no one wanted to answer some questions in class, and being uncomfortable with silence and having answers I would raise my hand to answer. The teacher eventually told me I was using my white privilege to put down my chicanx classmates (literally no one wanted to be there or answer questions- someone tell me how that's white privilege). Probably a month around the end of the semester I stopped taking notes on my laptop and dicked around on Facebook, not caring who saw, not participating in anything even if the teacher asked if I had anything to say (which she started doing after telling me off). It was a Friday only class and the majority of the homework needed to be done before class so participation was minimal and grades were easy if you did the homework. Frick that teacher
Had a class all about super hero movies, basically watch a movie and talk about it once a week. We watched Hancock, a super hero movie staring will smith. Professor gave a long speech about how the movie was about racism, I said I didn’t really get that feel from it (and maybe I’m wrong idk, I don’t pay attention to race so I’m kinda blind to it) he said, and I quote, “why would they hire will smith if it wasn’t about race?” I said it’s because Hancock is a scrappy underdog hero, and will smith is AMAZING at that role. Professor declared me racist for saying will smith was a good actor. Please note, that was what the actual director said. They openly admitted they hired will smith because he was very popular at the time and they needed a draw for the movie to compete with bigger name super hero movies. Also in the original comic it’s based off of Hancock is white (I’m pretty sure it’s been years) so the racism argument wouldn’t really apply. I always thought it was more about responsibility and consequences than anything but idk I’m no film critic.
Dude banned me from class and I had to get the dean involved. The dean said he was being racist and had to get after him to let me back in. He then kicked me out of another class I needed to graduate because he saw me without a mask on in the hall. Always had one in his class but I rushed from my room to his class and often forgot, as they were optional at that time. I said I wouldn’t leave over that, needed the class, and the registrar dropped me anyways because ‘the professor is too old and doesn’t understand email’. If you don’t understand email you probably better retire in 2021, it’s digital get over it.
not my story but I heard about this professor from Italy that was near his retirement but still strict, you didn't want to miss his lecture let alone a test. so when he scheduled his test let's say 30.3. my friend wanted to schedule the trip outside the country with her BF and to be back by 25.3., she just arrived at her destination, and the date is 20.3. a day passes and her friend just called her, the professor changed the date of the test to a week early, which is 23.3., now panicking my friend spent a day finding a way to travel back, and she manages to get back on time to Italy, and a day letter was at the test with the rest of the students, but there was no professor, he forgot he changed the date and didn't show up.
It’s annoying when you pay a school for a teacher and they hire a teacher who doesn’t know how to use the program that they’re being paid to teach
...maybe I should double check Rate My Professor
Bruh
I had a opposite version of this, idk the name of the class but it was so fuckin woke I don’t care about politics but we talked about sexuality, sex in general, self esteem, etc. It felt like a basic high school class though, enough extra credit that I didn’t have to even go for the last 2 months. Professor was fired and never seen again probably because 100% of the class got an A
Speaking of Shakespeare, I had to take a Shakespeare course during summer school in college. The Prof. said there's no way we can get through a whole classes worth of study during summer school; so, you'll have to read 1 play per night. One play per night! Do you know how long Shakesperian plays are? Written in old English? I couldn't even keep up with the cliff notes! The only reason he passed me with a C was because during the final exam ( stated Shakespeare wrote the wrong ending to one play, and should've written this!