<p>"One of the popular myths of higher education is that professors are sadists who live to inflict psychological trauma on undergraduates. Perhaps you believe that we pick students at random and then schedule all our assignments in such a way as to make those students lives as difficult as possible. The older I get and the longer I do this, the more I recognize that we (the professors) need to be more transparent about our philosophies of evaluation. How does this work? Lets clarify a few things.</p>
<p>First, I do not take off points. You earn them ..."</p>
<p>A peek inside a professor's head.</p>
<p>Dear</a> Student: I Don't Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life - Forbes</p>
<p>Cool article. A lot of kids are whiners these days and want everything handed to 'em. It doesn’t help that we’ve been coddled, what with the whole self-esteem movement making everybody get some sort of “participant” ribbon and telling everybody that they’re ultra special snowflakes.</p>
<p>It really gets my goat when someone whines and groans about their grade as if it’s the professor’s fault. Hey chief, obviously some people DID get the same grade you wanted. There’s two possible reasons for that, either they studied better than you did or they paid off the professor. I’m thinking the former is more likely.</p>
<p>Maybe I just missed it, but I don’t really know anyone who thinks their profs are out to get them. I’ve never heard of that. Hm. Interesting article though.</p>
<p>Good article, although I didn’t know people still thought that way. My professors have made it very clear that we get the grades we earn, not what they randomly decide to give us. Not to mention, all of our assignments are handed out at the very beginning of the semester- no random assignments that can be construed as “picking on certain students.”</p>