How to tell your professor is a dick:

[Warik]

... when he declares that the midterm assignment due in 2 weeks will consist of doing the same assignment that the class was given a month to do, only that the midterm will involve doing it with a much more complex software system.

It is so blatantly obvious that this is the first time he's ever taught this class. He is so fucking stupid. Goddamnit if this weren't my last semester I'd drop the class and take it with a different prof. in the summer.

-Warik

 

[WarriorPL]

Kill him.

 

[OXANDRIN]

complain to the chairman (of the department) i do it all the time. infact. my marketing teacher told me i was wasting my time writing fluff and not getting to the point. i said i don't think this is fluff and he said its fluff because i'm telling you its fluff.....nuff said i came back at it with this..."i'll go talk to the Chair of the department to see what he thinks" is that ok with you because i'm sure he would like to know i'm not happy with the professors i'm paying for in marketing

 

[Warik]

What would that accomplish? I can see it now...

"You don't like your teacher sir? Why don't you just take it with another prof?"

"Oh, no one else is teaching it? Then just take it next semester. We have someone else teaching it next semester."

"Wait... you say this is your last semester and you expect to graduate this semester? Well that's not our problem... we can't make everyone happy. Why is it you're not pleased with your professor?"

"Ah - I see - the old 'he's a bad teacher and gives too much work' excuse. Like I haven't heard that one before. Run along now."

The sad part is that every student I've spoken to in the class regarding the professor firmly believes that a) he doesn't know what he's talking about, b) he has the teacher skills of an English professor in quantum mechanics, and c) he gives more work with less time to complete it than anyone would in the real world.

Fucking sorry excuse for an educator. This is why US education is terrible. You've got a class that every graduating CS senior needs to take and only one professor (who evidently does not know shit) teaching it.

nice.

-Warik

 

[big_bad_buff]

... when he declares that the midterm assignment due in 2 weeks will consist of doing the same assignment that the class was given a month to do, only that the midterm will involve doing it with a much more complex software system.

It is so blatantly obvious that this is the first time he's ever taught this class. He is so fucking stupid. Goddamnit if this weren't my last semester I'd drop the class and take it with a different prof. in the summer.

-Warik

Don't be a puss man. you want encouragement? well here it is. what are you going to tell your boss when he says he needs your work early in the future? you gonna whine and say i can't i can't? or are gonna jump on that shit and knock it out, and impress the shit out of your boss and get a raise?



ah shit, I'd quite

 

[danielson]

ask for an extension?

 

[nevertoobig]

Warik, Are you actually interested in your course?

I'm doing a Computer Science degree and I just find it soooo boring. Maybe it's because I don't understand half of it and I can't program to save my life.

i hate all these constant deadlines for coursework and tests too.

Only reason I'm doing it is because I don't know what else to do.

 

[Warik]

Re: Re: How to tell your professor is a dick:

Don't be a puss man. you want encouragement? well here it is. what are you going to tell your boss when he says he needs your work early in the future? you gonna whine and say i can't i can't? or are gonna jump on that shit and knock it out, and impress the shit out of your boss and get a raise?

OK - what are you going to tell your boss when he says "listen, I want the first prototype built in a week. yes I know you don't even have a prototype specification or even a picture of what it's going to look like... but I want it anyway?" The difference between this and the real world is that a real boss has been doing what he does for years and he knows what can and cannot be done in a period of time. He is also open to reason and will take advice from an employee regarding a matter he is not skilled with.

In school, however, I've just been given an unreasonable deadline by a prof. teaching this class for the first time in his life. If I were being paid for it, or if he were a good prof, I'd probably make an effort... but this is absurd.

-Warik

 

[Warik]

Warik, Are you actually interested in your course?

Not anymore. The university system has killed any motivation I have for computer science. I will likely give up on CS professionally after graduation and go into business, which is what I should have done 3 years ago.

I'm doing a Computer Science degree and I just find it soooo boring. Maybe it's because I don't understand half of it and I can't program to save my life.

I can program circles around anyone in the computer science program at my school when it comes to practical applications. My math teacher gave the class an optional extra credit assignment that involved programming and he gave us 2 weeks to do it - everyone wanted an extension. I finished it in a half hour on the date it was assigned.

This is not programming, though. It's a software engineering course teaching UML. They basically want us to have a whole software system designed and written on paper before a line of code is written - which is great and is very useful, but he expects us to have the entire amazon.com system modeled, diagramed, and analyzed in less than 2 weeks while simultaneously attending 9-12 other credits worth of courses - LOL IS HE IN CRACK?

Only reason I'm doing it is because I don't know what else to do.

Only reason I'm doing it is because I made a promise to ol' dad and I won't let him down. If not for that, I would have dropped out 3 years ago and be running my own company right now. oh well.

-Warik

 

[zapper]

let your professor do you, bro. you will get an A for sure. That's what another guy on this board does all the time. Poyboy or something like that.

 

[AAP]

Give him a bad rating on www.ratemyprofessor.com

 

[DealsMorte]

I got a pretty good story about the so loved College Administration dickheads:

My first calc class we had a teacher who had trouble with english. Ok thats fine there's other ways to communicate right? So then he starts doing problems on the chalkboard and I'm watching him make all kinds of mistakes so I bring it up and he turns to me and says, "Well if you think you can do better come up here and do it!"

Naturally I do, but then he is in his macho I can't know this problem if he doesn't mode and throws me out of class. So I complain and it turns out that its not the first complaint (imagine that).

Administration finally decides its time to replace him so who do they send us? A women from the phillipines who had been in the country less then a month. Who procedes to tell us our seating assignment and how we must raise our hands if we have to leave the classroom. Needless to say I dropped the class when I saw her making mistakes on the board to and took it the next semester.

 

[bullett]

Re: Re: Re: How to tell your professor is a dick:

OK - what are you going to tell your boss when he says "listen, I want the first prototype built in a week. yes I know you don't even have a prototype specification or even a picture of what it's going to look like... but I want it anyway?"
-Warik

Hey,

Scottie did it for Cap'n Kirk on a weekly basis....

 

[Sushi X]

ask satanic goatslayer, he's the real people's person here. he'll know what to do.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Give him a bad rating on www.ratemyprofessor.com

Thats a good site....it really works. I'm going back to my alma mater and check out the ladies who got a sexy rating.