<p>Does anyone have horror stories to share involving profs? Too unreasonably hard tests, unfair systems etc? I was just reading a thread about a prof who lost a kid's final..and he couldn't get his grade...wow..</p>
<p>in my mom's physics class it was possible to get NEGATIVE grades because of the curve the prof. used.</p>
<p>I took a class with my "favorite" professor last semester: no syllabus, no assignments, most lectures were either canceled or the professor came unprepared, and everyone got a B+ or above. Sounds like heaven? No, more like a waste of tuition money.</p>
<p>On the other extreme, I took a class that only 48 out of 300-hundred something students passed. It was the most challenging but also most rewarding class I had ever taken. (In case you are curious, it was linear algebra for math majors.)</p>
<p>I have a chem lab professor who took off a ton of points because of one specific sigfig miscalculation. The professor is notoriously a tough grader.</p>
<p>One of my professors (biochem) tests based on lectures, reading material, secondary articles.... and what he calls "personal advancement expectations." That basically means that you should study random things completely unrelated to what is currently being taught because at least 50% of the tests are based on material that we have not been exposed to in ANY form, (except for if you lucked out and coincidentally read some completely random article on some weird, foreign disease and knew the mechanism of the pathogen, all treatment options, the molecular structure of the medications used to treat said disease, etc.). It's frigging crazy and stupid. The material we should know for these "personal advancement expectations" cannot even be found in our book!!!! So even if you read the ENTIRE BOOK and memorized it, it would be useless. There is literally NO way to predict what is on his tests, and the average grade in his class is a D+ ... unfortunately I'm not kidding.</p>
<p>^^^^^ sounds wayyyyy annoying</p>
<p>I love all my profs....:[</p>
<p>I heard this story some time ago. A professor of a friend was worried he would be hit by lightening and rigged what amounted to a lightening rod that when from his hat to the ground. Apparently wore it all the time. I also think he wore some sort of special glasses.</p>
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<p>300 students taking linear algebra for math majors in one single class? Impressive. You must have like, a good thousand math majors.</p>
<p>I wish we had that kind of population, we had about 30 in our version of the class.</p>
<p>Welcome to the idea of Tenure. Prof gets to do w/e the **** he/she wants to do, and you can't stop them!</p>
<p>tetrahedr0n, the university had about 30-100 math majors per class. The exact number depended on who was teaching linear algebra and real analysis (the two weed-out classes).</p>