<p>Out of curiosity, who was the worst professor that you've ever had and why?</p>
<p>Probably the first two Pre-Calc professors I had before I retook it a 3rd time. First Pre-Calc professor assigned only even-numbered problems on homework (so we couldn’t check our answers with the back of the book to see if we did the problem correctly or not, and the student solution manual only shows the steps for odd-numbered problems), took a long time to grade the homework and return it, never posted the key to the exam online so students could see what they missed (even though the syllabus mentions that the key would be posted), didn’t allow calculators (both scientific and graphic) on tests, even though some questions asked for approximate answers, and he was rather unhelpful and unclear whenever someone asked him a question. His response? “Just do it!” I dropped his class with a W when after the second test, I found out from others in my class that the class average was a 55%, and also because he likes to make stuff up as he goes along. It specifically states in the syllabus that all tests, with the exception of the final, would be worth 100 points. He made the second test 140 points. He has even said to a student asking how much the second test was worth “I’ll make it up as I write the test.” </p>
<p>Second Pre-Calculus professor during a different semester was a Chinese woman who had immigrated to the States when she was a college student. Every single class time was wasted on her telling us about how when she came to the States, she had to fend for herself because she no longer had maids and butlers (apparently her family was rich), that she was not good in math like her sister, blah blah blah. She wouldn’t get to the actual material until the last 30 minutes of class, and this was a 2 hour class.</p>
<p>The Nutty Professor.</p>
<p>The professor that would ramble on about strange things that had nothing to do with the class.</p>
<p>A PhD candidate I had in my Human Geography “class” who basically lectured us on her personal political and religious views for an hour and a half every TTh (and when she wasn’t doing that, she read verbatim from the slides). She also tried to start class discussions, which wouldn’t have been so bad were there not 500+ people in the room. Nice lady, AWFUL professor.</p>
<p>My Intermediate Algebra teacher that I took the second time around after I failed the class the first time. First hour and a half of class, he had the class make fun of math tutor’s mistakes and go over homework problems that people didn’t get. This was a class of over 60 students, so you can imagine how long it took for him to get to everyone who needed help on a certain problem. It wasn’t until the last 15-20 minutes of class that we actually started learning new materials. And once, he had us watch a clip of Two and a Half Men just because one of the characters made a mathematical error in his speech and my professor thought it’d be funny to show us despite it not even relating to the class at all. :|</p>
<p>The professor I had from the Botany class I dropped. Moved to the US in 1970 and still doesn’t have a decent enough grasp of the English language to form a coherent sentence that doesn’t involve McDonalds or sun screen. After two weeks, I still couldn’t understand a thing she said so I dropped it.</p>
<p>Calc II professor. Thick accent, incredibly unhelpful.</p>
<p>My General Chemistry 1 professor was a quite an unpleasant guy. First day he talked about how stupid tenure is because it keeps all of the old and “out of date” professors in place. I soon learned just how ironic that statement was. He would often break into lengthy spiels about how unscientific the world was and how anyone who didn’t share his views was certifiably brain dead. Nonetheless I was prepared to deal with it so long as he taught us well, which never happened. He would often not even mention entire chapters of material only to have it show up on the exams. The only thing that saved him in terms of the students passing his class was that he would give out practice exams where we would see all the material he left out/forgot about and attempt to try to make sense of it before the exam. It wasn’t too hard for me since I had already learned about a good bit of the material in high school and a lot of it was review but for the people who didn’t have that prior knowledge they usually didn’t do too well. </p>
<p>Also, currently I’m taking two history classes for my general education. One is Canadian History and the professor there, though rather demanding, is pretty nice. However my teacher for World History Since 1500 is one part of what makes me strongly dislike going to that class. She is quite a young professor-to-be, seeing as she is working on becoming a full-fledged professor, but she does have 3 years of experience under her belt. In fact the number 3 is a good way to summarize how she treats us. Instead of treating us like more-or-less knowledgeable students of higher education she treats us as if we were 3rd graders saying, among other things “I’m sorry this isn’t happy-fun time history”. I understand that she wants us to see history from all the sides but in her attempts she just really seems to talk down to us. Nonetheless, she isn’t the reason I dislike coming to class. That honor goes to Mr. Barefoot Deconstructionist Psychology major. He would always respond with some aside about how evil organized anything is and how we are all cattle for the slaughter. It even got to a point when our teacher herself got a bit disgruntled by his constant bursts of philosophical wisdom.</p>