<p>I had a teacher that was very kind and enthusiastic, but then next quarter my teacher was acting like a whole different person. She avoided me and the last time me and my former teacher were walking at a close distance toward each other. My teacher then turned around looked my dead in the eyes with a blank face and then turned around and walked away.</p>
<p>How much would this bother you and would you take another class with this teacher again?</p>
<p>Is there anything you could have possibly done to elicit that kind of reaction?</p>
<p>Unless it’s a course you must have, and there are no other teachers, I would not take a class with that person again.</p>
<p>Besides what classes fit into my schedule, my main determination of that schedule is the professors. If I recognize a name of one I like vs someone teaching a class who I’ve previously had and didn’t like or people have warned me about them… I’ll just the first one.</p>
<p>Although as I found out… doesn’t always work out. Signed up for the next level of calc class this year, and saw that out of all the options for said class there were only two professors. One that I never heard of and one that EVERYONE says to avoid because she has a high fail rate and generally doesn’t teach well. So I chose the one I never heard of. Checked my schedule a few weeks into summer to see that they switched professors for the timeslot I chose, and now I probably have a slim chance at passing this class. :/</p>
<p>Do not take. See if you can work your way around it but if you must absolutely have to take the course, do it. </p>
<p>I can’t avoid some “harsh” graders at my school, so I have to just deal with it.</p>
<p>maybe she had botox, so her smile isn’t as apparent as before.</p>
<p>a lot of professors are like that. They are extroverted when they’re teaching, but they’re actually really dry in real life. If you didn’t do anything to pis5 her off, then I’d have no problem taking class with her again.</p>
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<p>it was a cleverly concocted plan by that teacher to be able to teach those who specifically wanted to avoid him/her. you were outwitted.</p>
<p>Yeah, I think we were all outwitted.
If one watched the classes filling up during the registration period, almost all of the other professors classes filled up immediately. The one everyone was trying to avoid could barely get any students in her classes.</p>
<p>Maybe she just didn’t recognize you? 60 Minutes recently did a piece on “face blindness” which is where people have difficulty recognizing faces - some of the people they interviewed couldn’t even identify close family members without some other visual cue. Take a weakness there combined with the fact that as a teacher, she’s looking at a room filled with people, and it might have been an unintentional slight.</p>
<p>Stradmom has a good point, especially if you didn’t sit at the front of the class and participate a lot.</p>
<p>If it’s a class you really want to take, I would go for it. If she acts cold or distant at the beginning of the semester, and it seems to be targeted at you, you can still drop it.</p>
<p>If it only happened once, I wouldn’t take it too seriously. She might have been having a bad day or something else that had nothing to do with you.</p>