<p>I need some stories of teachers you hated going through your college career. Somebody that is outrageously stupid, picks on you for no reason, etc.</p>
<p>I have an Art History teacher right now, I swear, how am I going to pass her class? On the tests we have to memorize names of pieces the dates, where it was from and who made the piece. She makes me want to drop out ****ing do porn. That's how I feel right now.</p>
<p>^ Sounds like my Afro-American art class last year. I was so happy to be done with that.</p>
<p>My physics professor is beyond awful. She had some demo set up (that, no doubt, failed like every one of her demos) and there was some box or something from it on the floor. She kept walking around while giving her lecture and she literally tripped over this box 4 or 5 times. Finally a student stood up and moved it two feet for her so she’d stop falling.</p>
<p>I have interacted with so many people who HATE the art history professor at my university. Then this year I take him… He is one of my favorite college professors so far, perhaps the favorite. His tests are ridiculously hard, but we do cover the material thoroughly and I have learned a lot.</p>
<p>Now, for the bad… I have a philosophy professor right now and I can say with certainly that he is one of the most closed minded people I have ever interacted with. And he teaches PHILOSOPHY! We go over all of these theories and he sounds so condescending when people try to argue points or when he discusses topics he doesn’t agree with. It does make the tests easier though, since you know what he wants to hear. He shouldn’t be teaching in this field though. (And he won’t be, as he is getting cut after this semester.)
He also doesn’t know hot to hook up his computer with the projector so either he has to call the IT crew over or just cancel class because of his lack of technological knowledge.</p>
<p>Try using RMP more. Though when they’re not listed, it’s annoying, but it’s to be expected for new/part-time faculty. I haven’t had anyone exceptionally bad.</p>
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Well that’s just redundant.</p>
<p>A few semesters ago I had a Business Stats teacher who obviously didn’t know what she was doing. In fact, she even said that it took her three tries to pass her Stats class in college. Especially early on in the semester, she did example problems wrong. Once she even did a problem using the incorrect formula, which caused her to later exclaim rather loudly, “damn it, m**<strong><em>f</em></strong>**,” after a student corrected her.</p>
<p>For the first exam she came in 15 minutes late, telling us that she had to go copy the test before giving them to us. It was another 10 more before we were able to start working on it. The pages also weren’t stabled which caused there to be further problems with everyone getting the right pages. It was a disaster. Turns out she only copied half the number of copies of one page of the test so she ended up throwing that section out.</p>
<p>Not to mention that there were several other things that annoyed me about her: constant errors in subject-verb agreement and an abundance of Freudian slips. I gave her the worst instructor review I’d ever given, and I’m sure others did the same, but she’s still teaching. I only hope that she has improved since then.</p>
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Oh, irony, how I love thee.</p>
<p>(No offense, just couldn’t resist pointing it out.)</p>
<p>The weird thing is, I use rate my professor.com every semester and my philosophy professor had good reviews, I was certainly misled. Maybe he was good at one point though.
And my art history professor had poor reviews. I guess people complain about the challenge.</p>
<p>BillyMc,</p>
<p>Maybe there was just one other student in the class! Thanks for the correction. </p>
<p>RMP can be a hit or miss. I’ve had great instructors who have a less than stellar rating there. Generally, at my school, instructors are rated much higher if they’re considered easy (and vice versa), which isn’t always something that I consider when choosing a class. During gen eds, sure, but it’s important to actually be challenged in upper level courses, IMO.</p>
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Haha, if you’re saying that the teacher was so bad that only one other student made it to the end, then wow. :D</p>
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Yeah, sometimes it seems like teaching ability either changes over time or varies between specific classes, though I’ve only noticed false negatives, never positives. Ah well.</p>
<p>I LOATHE my English teacher! I need the class to transfer and it’s only offered online. We’ve just turned in our third major paper, and have yet to hear about grades from the first. He never answers emails and doesn’t have an office on campus. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t even live in this state. *** is the point of teaching this class WHEN YOU DO NO TEACHING!?</p>
<p>My Political Theory professor mumbled. She stood in the front of the room (which was an annoying classroom anyway) and mumbled under her breath. At least the tests were entirely text-based. But attendance was required so… ugh.</p>
<p>Was looking at the ratemyprofessor of a professor who’d clearly written two pages worth of positive reviews of herself (all within two days) after five pages of straight negative reviews. She used the exact same words to describe herself as she did on her bio on the school website as she did in the reviews. And tons of exclamation points.</p>
<p>My human geography professor last semester stood in front of the class and basically lectured for an hour and a half every other day about why Christians suck and why Americans are stupid wasteful pigs. When she wasn’t sermonizing, she read of slides which had text that was copied directly from the textbook. Then she would try to initiate class discussions, which doesn’t work so well in a massive lecture hall with 600+ students. I’m a non-Christian liberal and even I couldn’t take that woman.</p>
<p>My Chemistry teacher</p>
<p>Day1: 200 people</p>
<p>Week1: 180 people ish</p>
<p>A month later: 100ppl</p>
<p>After the first midterm 40ppl</p>
<p>After second midterm: I say 25 people</p>
<p>Now: I don’t even know how many people are in her class anymore lol</p>
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My non-religious friend had an anthropology professor who would print his own little booklets and hand them out, and they would list off random things and then say “And that’s why all religion is wrong.” My friend disliked him and found these booklets very illogical and unnecessary.</p>
<p>I haven’t had any horrible teachers yet but last semester in my writing class, my teacher graded my opinion. if she didn’t agree with what i thought, she would take off a **** ton of points and add in silly counterexamples from her personal life experience. for grammar and argument, which is what writing class is about, i was perfect. but booo i sure picked the wrong topics to write about</p>
<p>Sorry for resurrecting this semi-old thread.</p>
<p>So far, most of my professors are good. One of them is whack! My Spanish professor is obsessed with cockatiels and always talks about her birds; it’s just insane. I can’t stop laughing in class!</p>
<p>I’m taking Bio right now and the teacher awful. She comes into class ten minutes late and gives us a speech about how she has other priorities to deal with so she begs us not to write her bad reviews to the committee. And then once we actually start, we don’t really get anywhere. She just kind of asks us about basic biology stuff like cells and we just start talking about it…that is what the class is…literally. Her tests are straight from her review sheet. Easy class, but terrible professor; it’s obvious she doesn’t want to be in class.</p>
<p>Took a summer course by a grad student too busy to really dedicate to teaching (his own research, and he was getting married in September). Not his fault, but he shouldn’t have been assigned a class that summer.</p>
<p>The grading was 20% hw, 40% midterm, 40% final—very fair, but the class failed the midterm. He admitted himself that it was an unfair test, based off a test by another prof who stressed different subjects than our class. Rather than add another midterm or make homework worth more or add EC, he goes and makes the final worth 80%.</p>
<p>I did alright, & didn’t hate the prof (he was likable, it was his first class, it was his first time writing tests, and he had a lot on his plate), but he sucked as a prof.</p>
<p>My music appreciation teacher is a diva… For an introduction to music appreciation class, it just really has too much work. She has a list of words you can’t use to describe music which includes music, song, lyric, lyricist and so on. Using those words just kills your grade on a written assignment. She expects people to pick out very difficult to hear components of music. At least 4 different things are due every week.
I have 15 years of piano lessons in my history and will easily pass her class with an A, but, there are still things that are hard for me to hear with 15 years of piano lessons. The poor saps in my class with no musical background don’t have a snowball’s chance in heck of surviving this class with more than a C. </p>
<p>Definitely not how an introductory class should be graded.</p>
<p>My 9th grad algebra teacher in high school was a jerk. (She hated me for some reason, i’m not sure why because I didn’t act up in class and always did my HW) One day she asked me what I wanted to do when I got older (job wise). I told her I planned on going into the field of biology, possibly considering medical or graduate school. She literally said “Wow, that’s a lot of math and science! Don’t you think you would be better at fashion design?” <em>facepalm</em></p>
<p>I would like to say I graduated IB with a 3.7 GPA UW and got into every college I applied to. How’s that for fashion design, b***?</p>
<p>I also had a chemistry professor who believed that A’s only represented excellence. Because undergrads are still learning and have not yet received a degree…they couldn’t be “excellent” and therefore no one in undergrad should conceivably get an “A.”</p>