Dear Professor, I’d like to start by giving you a big FUCK YOU! Don’t get me wrong, I do all the B.S. assignments you give that are quite the guessing games, and your lecture style could have anyone at rest within minutes if you didn’t have us taking notes on the all ‘powerful’ crap you spew. I’m paying good money for this education and you’re making it unbearable! I can’t wait to be done with you. —The B student who hates you

This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.

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  2. sounds to me, as if this is not a person who has an interest in learning anything. i mightbe wrong, but i also think this person has more party time on their mind, and classes are cutting into it. my suggestion o.p., is that if you think you aren’t getting even a glimmer from your prof., maybe it’s you?
    and maybe you should just drop out, like the rest of your loser friends, and go sit on a corner, collecting non taxable coin. get the fuck out if you don’t like going to school, and let someone who does like it, in there.
    wait til the saudi’s come this year, put all you little assholes to shame. and i hope to fuck, you are not doing any med. classes. if i was there, you would be flunked as fast as i could write it on your paperwork. think he is bad, wait til you see the next guy, to take over from him.

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  3. LOLZ.

    Unfortunately, OP, there are tons of profs out there like this. They’re not in it for the teaching part, they’re in it for the research. U of A has a program for PhDers to teach them how to teach university students. When I was actually on the academic route and on track to doing my MA/PhD I really favoured U of A for my PhD BECAUSE of this program. I think this is an excellent program and it’s really too bad it’s not offered at more universities.

    This prof prolly has tenure too and doesn’t give two shits. While I’ve had more good than bad profs who were tenured, there are some out there who just don’t give two shits because HEY! they have a job next year regardless. It’s such a fucked up system.

    I’ve had a few profs like this and I learned in my BA not to take classes with certain profs at certain times (usually between 2-4) because I’m always sleepy then and I’d just fall asleep or have a torturous time staying awake. I also had profs like this where their lectures were useless and boring and I’d just read the book and do the essays and write the exams and wouldn’t bother with class most of the time (no class discussion — it was just him rambling on in his monotone voice). I ended up with an A.

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  4. I taped lectures (it allowed me to sleep worry free = )
    Show appreciation after a lecture–just a thank you, your lecture was interesting or I appreciate the effort that must have gone into your lecture–and you might find that the professor perks up and puts more into it.

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  7. Lemme guess, you’re a first year student who thinks he/she knows everything. My advice: screw university, go to community college and learn things hands on. Universities are all about lectures, and it really doesn’t get any better until you’re almost done, and then you think you have all this great information and SURPRISE! No one cares… and you either end up moving on and forgetting about it, or teaching it to ungrateful first year students who think you’re boring. At least that’s what happens with an arts degree.

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  8. OP, don’t forget that a lot of professors are more interested in research than teaching, and the easiest way to get access to research money is through employment at a university. if you hate the prof so much, why didn’t you drop the class before now?

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  9. hmmmmm, this sounds eerily like the students in every statistics class I’ve ever taken….

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  10. I had a prof for an inorganic chemistry course who spent his lectures mumbling at the blackboard which he filled with chemical formulas and calculations and which he frequently erased after thirty minutes or so of writing because he had made a number of serious errors back in “step 2”.

    This usually led to much groaning and tearing and crumpling of paper in the lecture hall to which he was completely oblivious. On many occasions after such a performance many students got up and walked out. Most of us resorted to the textbook and grad student lab instructors to pass the course.

    We would hear from others that he was a leader in his field and quite well respected for a large body of research. Obviously as a teacher he was a complete failure.

    Universities have a lot of these types hanging around OP and your only course of action, if you need the course, is to suck it up and endure. Hey it builds character!

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  12. is that blue having a poop hugo? dogs always look embarrassed when they’re defecating

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  13. maybe the prof feels exactly the same about teaching spoiled middle class idiots like you,just suck it up and realize that life too is full of boring things you must do,but,a mature person shrugs it off.

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  14. Perhaps Blue is on the receiving end of “Invisible Buttsecks”
    Sorry Blue – couldn’t resist. Woof Woof >; )

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  15. is it your birthday hugo? “you’re a very bad man jerry” i mean commander^^

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  19. Wow LIFESUCKS, life must really suck for you.
    Wow Holla!, for someone accusing OP of knowing everything you sure know everything.
    Wow Halifaxmentor,…I’ve read other comments you’ve made in the past and I really hope you’re not actually anybody’s mentor, please.

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  20. University’s not ALL about lectures, hollah!. Even in my arts degree my upper level seminars (which is primarily what I took after second year) were more discussion based and encouraged thought and analytical reasoning. I really miss it, actually and I wish I could find someone with the same interest in history to discuss things with. But sadly, I don’t 🙁

    I really miss my “academic” studies.

    Also: in professional studies there’s a lot more “doing” than “listening.” Just sayin’ 🙂

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  21. The only bad course report that I ever got, came from an instructor like you folks have described. I kept asking him to speak louder an more clearly, I think that he mumbled to cover his ignorance.

    A good instructor; makes eye contact with the class, asks/takes question to make a point and break the monotony, varies the pitch, tone and rhythm of their voice, never turns their back to the class, and never talks to the chalkboard.

    paingirl – Blue gets pissed off, that was such a dirty look (initially) that I just had to snap a pic.

    Yesterday, yes it was, a friend called to remind me. I told him to fuck off 😉

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  25. I had a prof in my BA that was just amazingly fantastic at lecturing and holding seminars. I also had a prof in my BPR that was freaking brilliant. They knew their shit and has chrisma on top of that.

    When I miss being a student, I miss those two profs.

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