<p>I am from New York. I have visited Northwestern, Emory, UCLA, USC, and Berekely (all schools I got into) I have elminated NW because its cold and Berekly b/c its too hippish. I went to UCLA and fell in love with the campus. Then i sat in two of classes and found them horrible. Once biology class was taught by a asian professor. I couldn't understand what he was saying because of his accent and he didnt' even explain anything well. Then I went to a communications class which I found pointless and boring. The teacher was not enthusiastic and his voice was monotone. Is this really how all the classes are at UCLA? Is it worth it paying over 40,000 for UCLA or should I go to USC or Emory??</p>
<p>How did you like USC/Emory?
Keep in mind that not all professors will be like that</p>
<p>the professors i visited were not like that. and i sat in four classes.</p>
<p>You probably should have gone to more classes to get a better view of how the teachers are. Not all teachers are like what you said.</p>
<p>That happens, I had a LS professor that was really dull, sounded like he was gonna commit suicide after lecture. Just try your best to decipher the language.</p>
<p>Occasionally you will have a bad professor, I have not had one yet but i am pretty sure i will get on.</p>
<p>In the CS department, the professors have been amazing so far. You got unlucky, that's all :P</p>
<p>My first quarter's professors were awesome, for second quarter I picked the easy but boring professors over the better but more difficult ones, and for third quarter I got awesome professors again.</p>
<p>I listened to a bit of the second LS15</a> lecture on podcast and found the material to be pretty interesting and the professor seemed cool too</p>
<p>You mean Berkeley? Yeesh, two horrible typos in like... two sentences. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I had 90% good professors in political science. By the way, dealing with accents is part of college, and life in general. You will have coworkers with funny accents, and professors/TAs with funny accents at any major school. Might as well embrace it, I say.</p>
<p>^ grark... yah, LS 15 with phelan?
can't be beat :)</p>
<p>I wouldn't call him a racist, he just had a hard time understanding the professor, and that's frustrating. I had an econ professor who "created" entirely new words and no one knew what he was saying.</p>
<p>It annoys me too, however, it has nothing to do with what accent the professor has, Asian or not.</p>
<p>Dude whats with the random, unprovoked race diatribe. he didn't say he didn't like asians, he said he didnt like that he couldn't understand the teacher. different things, yo. and it's interesting that your own statement is implicitly racist in nature. way to go. </p>
<p>anyway, you really can't make judgments about an entire school based on two professors. some professors are boring, some professors are hard to understand. but some are really freaking awesome, and helpful, and whatever. and also? i think you'll run into the same thing anywhere you decide to go, so i don't know that it can be a deciding factor. just because you sat in on some unexciting classes here, or some more interested professors somewhere else, doesn't really reflect what your own classes will be like wherever you wind up.</p>
<p>*AliR, *</p>
<p>Don't worry, the more you hear the Asian accents, the easier time you will have understanding them.</p>
<p>As for myself, I have trouble understanding the different accent every time I travel to New York City... :)</p>