<p>How do you know that you wont like a professor if you're only given a few days to evaluate him/her and you have to be stuck with him/her for the rest of the year?</p>
<p>Are there any particular questions you ask? Most classes dont do much during the first 2 weeks so you cant base it on the class structure and how the class is going.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myprofessorsucks.com%5B/url%5D">www.myprofessorsucks.com</a>
Go there for your specific school and look up reviews, also try <a href="http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp%5B/url%5D">http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/index.jsp</a></p>
<p>u don't usually get to pick the professor, just the class. I can usually tell in a second whether I'll gonna like a teacher. </p>
<p>If you can't, you can count how many people are asleep in different professors' classes and make a chart :)</p>
<p>paint... in a class that has multiple sections, the student generally has some say in which section they choose based on who teaches it.</p>
<p>I love my fellow extraordinarily biased and unfounded complaints of my favorite teacher. These kind of sites should be left to students who actually care about going to school.</p>
<p>yeah different people have different opinions i guess. I was wondering more if there were any questions I could ask the teacher, i guess a good one would be how many students received A's in your previous class to get an insight on his grading curves.</p>
<p>for ucla, there's a website <a href="http://www.bruinwalk.com%5B/url%5D">www.bruinwalk.com</a> where you can check out other people's ratings and comments on the professors before you even pick your classes out. </p>
<p>"u don't usually get to pick the professor, just the class. "</p>
<p>at ucla, you dont just pick the class, you can pick the professor too but waiting until the class you want is taught by a certain professor. bruinwalk.com helps facilitate this.</p>
<p>Does Berkeley have a similar thing?</p>
<p>These websites are fairly good. Most ratings for teachers are very good and truthful, and for the bad profs their obviously bad. For high school its useless because you have tons of immature people, for college its not, and if it is you should probably pick a different college thats more mature.</p>
<p>Most of my classes only have one section, so there's not really a choice. However I did have one slot where I wasn't sure what class I wanted to take, and looking at professor evaluations helped</p>
<p>ratemyprofesor.com isn't that great...I went to VaTech last 2 semsters (leaving for fall 2005) and ppl had horrible professors rated with high marks</p>
<p>your best bet would be to try to find a site taht's dedicated to teachers at your school...if there aren't any of those...ask other students...and when your'e registering for classes online (if you can do it at your school) look for the classes that have the least amount of dropped students within the next few days...just watch them..usually the ones where only one person drops every week or so are the best professors...the bad ones will usually have a full class at the begining of the semest and then alot of open slots are left open by the next week...it's kinda an unorthodox way to search for a good professor but hey..it's what ya got :)</p>
<p>lol good advice nahrafsfa, but if by the time everyone drops out will there be any more slots left from the good professors? Anyone suggest that I register for extra classes just to pick and choose?</p>
<p>I know whether or not I will genuinely like someone the moment I meet them. If not, there's no hope for them.</p>
<p>i recommend it very much...that's how i start off my semesters...i pick random professors, and then i play with my schedule</p>
<p>but at vt we have <a href="http://www.ratevtteachers.com%5B/url%5D">www.ratevtteachers.com</a> and ever since i discovered it i've had very good luck with professors</p>
<p>they shut down the site in february though...good thing cuz i'm going to UVA next semester :):):)
sorry i'm just overly excited about it</p>
<p>I’m a student at Virginia Tech, and the best websites is [■■■■■■■</a> - Exams, Rate/Pick Professors, Ratings/Evaluations, Notes](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■.com%5DKoofers”>http://www.■■■■■■■.com).</p>
<p>They have instructor ratings, grade distributions, and what VT calls ■■■■■■■ (previous exams, study guides, notes)</p>
<p>Plus they’re at more universities now (including UVA)</p>
<p>ratemyprofessor.com</p>
<p>is pretty darn cool</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://www.ratemyprofessors.com%5DRateMyProfessors.com%5B/url”>http://www.ratemyprofessors.com]RateMyProfessors.com[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Advisers generally won’t tell you who is the better professor since they all work together and other Professors are about as tight lipped. I asked one of mine what he thought of another guy in the department and he wouldn’t say much, all I really got was, “He has a very different teaching style.”</p>
<p>I don’t like his teaching style. -_-</p>
<p>Anyways, when you go to sites like that, you should always take what you read with a grain of salt. But it’s something at least. You can sort of get a feel for who is who based on just how many reviews they have as well, like whether people are bothering to review them and why, whether they inspire anyone to actually go that far.</p>
<p>I suggest Koof ers. Koof ers.com is pretty much a combination of all the other websites out there. Posting and viewing class notes and past study materials, class grade distributions, professor ratings, completely free too, its amazing. I use it all the time.</p>