<p>We all hear the horror stories of terrible professors, and how you dont learn anything in classes themselves, you have to teach yourself, etc, etc. But as a rising senior thinking about college, can anyone tell me a story of a truly amazing professor they have had, and what made them so amazing?</p>
<p>One great professor that I had was my honors social science professor. He made learning about and reading Marx much easier. He also knew how to make me think more about my opinions and papers. I really liked him.</p>
<p>Pretty much all of my professors have been, at the very least, good. I think what really makes a great professor is if they love what they’re teaching and go out of their way to make sure you get the material. I have had a few like that. </p>
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<p>I had a professor last year that taught me to think more critically about everything around me. He completely changed my world view and the way I thought about current events, my beliefs, etc. I really figured out what I wanted from life because of him.</p>
<p>So yeah, good professors exist. They’re fairly common. But truly amazing ones are incredibly rare. If you find one, take serious advantage of the opportunity and learn as much as you can from them.</p>
<p>When your prof has to go to a conference one lecture and a grad student or another instructor takes his place, that’s when you realize how good your professor really is.</p>
<p>I’m pretty much amazed by all my professors so far. One of them in particular seems to be on a whole nother plane of existence, not in a bad way, just kind of in a way that you wonder how the heck you, a poor freshman in college, could ever end up being that smart.</p>
<p>Yes, this guy:</p>
<p>[Fine-tuning</a> physics - Distinguished Scholars - The Lantern - Ohio State University](<a href=“http://www.thelantern.com/2.1376/fine-tuning-physics-1.94221]Fine-tuning”>http://www.thelantern.com/2.1376/fine-tuning-physics-1.94221)</p>
<p>Simply for his dedication to us poor undergrads and his inexhaustible supply of help for students doing their homework in the physics student lounge. Where does he find the time to do his professory researchy stuff?!</p>
<p>I think “good” professors exists, but it’s just all subjective. For example, I love my communication professor; I think he’s phenomenal, but I know plenty of people who think he is a pretentious d-bag. They see him as a d-bag because they simply don’t listen and then fail, so they blame it on a perfectly fine teacher. It also depends on your interest in the subject. The less interested, the harder it is to like the class or the teacher.</p>
<p>Maybe it’s just where I go to school, but I have a bunch of amazing professors. I’ve heard of a few here that aren’t all that interesting, but good professors seem to be the general trend here.</p>
<p>I have a professor in International Relations who spent his entire life in the air force in various diplomatic roles. I also have a professor in Computer Science (my advisor, in fact) who worked at Sun Microsystems back when they were ‘‘inventing’’ Java. Both of them are extremely helpful and interesting, and really know their subjects on account of having actually lived them for good portions of their lives.</p>
<p>I also have an Art professor who can do very good imitations of a wide variety of characters, and can work double entendres into literally any sentence. We learn absolutely nothing of value in his class, but he is entertaining.</p>