<p>Question is in the topic title. Interested in seeing what others have to say. :)</p>
<p>My managerial accounting professor. Nothing against him personally, I just found him to be an ineffective teacher. Went on tons of tangents, took forever to get through slides, bleh.</p>
<p>freshman writing class prof…very unclear on assignments, tough grader and didn’t explain things well about why you got points off, didn’t really teach how to write well, took forever to grade papers (like a month or more to grade stuff…I hate that!)</p>
<p>The religion professor I had this semester. Shoot me. An hour twice a week of being talked to like I was five, and instead of actually covering and delving into the reading and discussions it was “how does this make you feel” for those sixty minutes. The professor never taught. She just let everyone say their emotions to the text. -_-</p>
<p>Probably my Biological Science professor. The class was easy, so it’s an amazing gpa booster. However, she would call in sick randomly and cancel class after we’ve been waiting for her to show up for 15-20 min. Sometimes, she would cancel the entire week before break, so we wouldn’t even meet up for like three weeks. I guess it’s kind of cool, but when I think about the money that me and my family put into higher education, this class is a complete waste.</p>
<p>My U101 and Stats teachers.</p>
<p>U101 is supposed to be an “Easy A”. Like… That’s kind of its whole point. They even tell you when you go on tour at USC that it’s “basically an easy A class that’s lots of fun”. My U101 teacher apparently didn’t get the memo. I had to write so many papers for that class and do so many projects… and it’s just a dumb elective class that doesn’t count for anything.</p>
<p>Stats110. The only good thing about my Stats professor: Class was scheduled on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 8-9:15. We rarely got out later than 8:45 and usually it was by 8:30. The class was way too easy. I took AP Stats in high school, but I failed the AP exam, so I got stuck in the first level of Stats at USC. I was so bored the entire semester. The professor would always talk about her daughter (I don’t care about her daughter). She didn’t explain things well at all, if I had not have ever taken the subject before, I would have been so confused because she made the EASIEST topics extremely difficult. And when students went to her for help, her only advice was to “use her old tests to study”, but when a student explained to her that they were a freshman and didn’t know anyone who had taken her class, she would just say “Tough luck. I don’t know how else to tell you to study.” Literally 50% of the class had a C or below on every exam. Oh. And her homework. Her homework… I once missed the answer by .0004… and it got counted wrong because it wasn’t the exact answer, because I used my calculator instead of her chart. Blah. Couldn’t stand this woman.</p>
<p>At the final for my chemistry class, a girl literally broke down sobbing “help me! help me!” I would be astounded if the mean on the final was higher than 30 or 40%. Our professor seems to take pleasure in pulling the rug out from under our feet.</p>
<p>My friend said all he did was watch videos and answer questions as well as a design project into intro to engineering. I had to do physics (basics though) and annoying excel work! Despite my disappointment that I actually had to do work, I gave him decent ratings at the end of the year. I feel that I have learned some stuff in the class that will stick. But no.</p>
<p>The teacher I absolutely dislike was my physics professor. The guy should not be a teacher. Scatter brained, monotone, heavy accent, and plain boring.</p>
<p>My English 101 profressor. She was a disaster. I thought I was the only one who disliked her teaching until one morning when I heard the whole class taking turns dishing it out on her before she arrived to class. lol. She might have been a good teacher in the past, but she’s very old now, forgetful, and just not effective.</p>
<p>Love hearing all of these responses. I’ll contribute my own “bad professor” experience:</p>
<p>My historiography (“history of historical analysis”) professor. I absolutely loved the material we studied, but she was a very dry, awkward person. She would cancel half of the classes in advance during the semester, but mention that she would “be in her office” on those days. She would always be late to office hours even if we scheduled an appointment beforehand. She was also very, very picky about word choice in our exam answers and in our papers; it was either her way or the highway. I did well in the class, and she really liked me as a student, but she was so disorganized! She had tenure – go figure.</p>
<p>My survey of chem professor. It’s bad enough I had to take the class in the first place instead of diving right into chem 1. It was a very easy class made entirely too difficult if you actually listened to any of her lecture. Listening to her lecture was like listening to my mom give driving directions. “If you pass the second big oak tree next to the darker green bench on my left, which is your right, then you’ve gone too far” instead of “turn left on Main St.” Seriously, her methods for balancing equations made something that should have been easy sound like she was giving directions in a foreign language. I spent the whole class time just trying not to let any of her inane ramblings enter my brain. Thank goodness I was homeschooled! Teaching myself is nothing new. I just taught myself the material from the text and got an A. It took her 7 weeks to grade a class paper. She didn’t even get to my paper. Last I checked, she only had graded 20, a small fraction of the class. Luckily I had an A without getting any points for the paper. She gave me the lame excuse that she didn’t bother grading mine because I already had an A. Well, that’s just great. I’m glad I spent 20+ hours working on a paper and getting books from the library to be able to write the darn thing and she couldn’t even be bothered to read it. The average grade on the final was a 50. A few just glanced at it, christmas-tree’d it and walked out 5 minutes into the test. </p>
<p>I liked my precalculus professor until the final. His tests all had been pretty similar to the homework where if you had studied the homework you did great. But, then the final was all unusual problems that you really had to know the material backwards and forwards to do well on. My lowest test grade through the whole semester in the class was a 97, but, I only managed an 85 on the final and some of that was luck. He also replaced your lowest test score with the final too which was a surprise, so I went from having a 99 in the class to a 91. I bet that screwed over a bunch of people who thought they were doing well.</p>
<p>My math teacher gave us unnecessary work and relied on lecture videos he didn’t even make. On top of that we had 3 assignments per day including class work that no one hardly finishes.
He’s terrible at planning because he would always run of time, so were usually 3 classes behind.</p>
<p>I’ve had a great array of professors for my first semester, so nobody really strikes me as being sub-par… However, if i had to pick my least favorite, it’d be my music theory professor. She’s thrown a few minor hissy fits (although I don’t blame her for that, it’s a 2-hr class at 8am), and her grading system is ridiculous. It baffles me that each homework assignment is worth as much as an exam grade. While that may sound wonderful to some students, I’ve struggled with homework completion all throughout high school (mostly due to documented ADHD) and compensated for missed/incomplete assignments with outstanding test grades. Now that there’s 10 homework assignments and 3 exams (both of which are worth 100 points each), I’ve probably landed myself a nice little C+ this semester. I’ve come to her office hours multiple times explaining this and asking for help, but her attempts, although genuine, have been ill-informed and counterproductive. I have her again next semester so I’m thinking of going to the learning center and requesting an academic coach.</p>
<p>My math professor. Easily the worst teacher I’ve ever had in my entire life. She had a very thick accent, had even worse handwriting than me, and gave very little partial credit. Even if you didn’t completely simplify an answer, you got maybe 1 point. I’m probably going to retake it next semester because she was so bad.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and she taught straight out of the book and made frequent mistakes during lecture. Plus, you had to go to lecture since she gave hard pop quizzes.</p>
<p>I didn’t have any horrible profs this semester, but my chem professor was my least favorite. She assigned a ton of work, and it was very difficult to get everything done for my other classes as well. I was only in 15 credit hours during this semester as well.</p>
<p>Physiological Psych professor. She went through the material really fast, wouldn’t let anyone have copies of the powerpoints and didn’t give any sort of study guide about what would be on the test.</p>
<p>My Management Information Systems professor. She treated us like children at times. I remember once she used the words aside, sanction, and quandary within the span of a few minutes, each time immediately afterward asking us if we knew what each word meant. The assignments she gave us were mind-numbingly easy that had to do with such things as simple Excel spreadsheets. To know how to use Excel is important, sure, but we have to either pass a class or test on microcomputer applications such as Excel as a pre-req for her course; thus it makes no sense to have us do that. This led to a rather easy class, but it was a waste of time, money, and energy to have so little to show for it.</p>
<p>My Advanced topics in Algebra professor, makes my 7th grade math teacher who failed me look like a saint. The lady showed up late everyday, told us stories about how brilliant her family was, talked about material unrelated to Algebra, and lost our attendance on multiple occasions. Lucky for me I am good at Algebra, but this lady still ruined my morning every MWF.</p>